Show SS FOR tny tn j 7 e eS S BLANCHE SILVER f F I P liners rim Iun KING ICING Once upon a a. time many years year ago abo there lived lI In a certain country a king kins whose whoso loYel lovely castle was overrun run with mice and rats lie He ba had spent millions and ln millions of or dollars tr trying ing to get s-ct rid of C the terrible ter cr- cr rude pests hut but to no avail So oneda one da day when hen tIme the mice mico and rats rats' had bad done more danUl damage o than the king called his atten attendants ants together and ordered or or or- or dered them to up signs ns in the vil vii lage to the effect that he lie would give le lea a crown o of Jewels to the one who would rid the Iho castle of mice mice- anti and rats Now XO in the village there lived a 1 woman and amid her liar son who was called caned Foolish Peter Petel because ho was 1 always doing such queer things such as talk taUt Ins ing to the birds an and bees bec that lighted lIS on the bushes and alit flowers near the road or Ot wandering around at night doing o odd J jobs job for folks who couldn't pay to lo have havo them done For to Pet Peter Petera l' l la a not nod and amid a thank you ou meant more than mone money Folks laughed and amid nudged one another another an an- another other a as UH they saw Foolish Peter Poter stop and anI read one of tho the signs si Hell HeJl be bo foolish enough to tr try for it it tH they laughed Jokingly But Dut to Peter leter it was ns as a serious affair for to him tho time king was a great anti and noble man mOan and anything that disturbed d his Ill piraco made Peter vel very unhappy so he decided ho lie would woul J try his luck That runt night after time the good folk olk were folk were all In bed bcd Pet Peter r gathered up his shovel sho and pick and went to 0 Iho tho castle He Ho started In at the time castle c gate te and on all sides Ides of or the great reat wall he dug deep holes each one about t two tiso J feet wide and anti two feet deep Over O these he lie laid laida a few t twigs wi s so the passers passers-by sers- sers b could not see sec the holes boles Then laying down imi his shovel sho anti and pick Peter stole stoic into the castle and wrapping a tiger aroun around him ho lit- crept Into the storeroom where I hundreds and hundreds hundred of rats and arid mice were in ha having a feast on ou the tho kings s cheese and crackers When the they saw Peter comin coming In the tIel tigers tiger's skin the time mice and rats ats scampered off in every direction with Peter after them growling lUte lilt a cat The mice and rats thinking him a new kind of giant cat ran lan out the doors door through h the courts over O the tho lie walls wails and arid tumbled in into into into in- in to the thc man many pits Peter had dug dub around the tho castle grounds g Once down in the tha holes the they couldn't get ct out and Peter called all his friends the thc weasels owls hawl hawks s and nd bats hats to together together to- to gether ether an anti and gave ac them a least feast They made such a 3 that the king Icing and his attendants were awakened an and J when then time the they discovered rt Foolish Peter and his friends the they wanted wante him hUn hung but the good gooi 1 king ing wouldn't hear bear of an any harm coming to Peter and amI ordered him to lo be bc brought before the tho kin king Pct Peter PetT r bowed cd before his king anti and told him what the commotion was all about an and amid J the king icing was so happy happ that thal right then lion and there he took the thc Jeweled Jew Jew- clad crown from his own head and put it upon Peters Peter's head Of course Peter didn't keep ecu it but gave bO it back lo to the tIme I king and ancI time the king gave aO him a bag bag of of gold in its place Peter and his old mother never nC knew what it was to want again foJtho for foJ tho time king kept them supplied with monc money mon moo c ey cy as long as th they lived and the castle once rid of its pests never saw sa a a. rat n. n nn I |