Show I J I I I I l it I iir UNFINISHED STORY 1J 1 3ii For Our Little Folks Who Want to I Fi Learn to Write s PI It wanted just fifteen minutes of midnight mid-night by tIme depot clock over the big 4P1 entrance door when a gi eat lean cat t crawled out of a smashed window and I1i carefully picked her way along a narrow nar-row edge until she came under the clock face u1hl II iI III It was bllterly cold and since early 1 U tti evening the snow had been drifting 4jJ i 7 heavily Four little sparrows which jjij i had been beaten put of their nest In a Jill1park tree had seen the light shining through the clock face and instinctively instinct-ively they flew to It for warmth They roosted on the minute hand uhich Itf9 iiJ happened just then to be perfectly tit l lu t horizontal F and hid their heads under II i their wings IJ il 1 I The cold was so Intense that as the I f 1r1p1 hands showed twelve minutes of the hour the sparrows were wellnigh frozen stifL and so numbthey could not have flown If The lean hungry cat > trlod to reach the tempting morsels but the icy surface > sur-face of the clock offered purchase for her sharp claws Thpic she crouched shivering In the snow waiting wait-ing for her prey to drop YOr drop they must when the hands reached a nearly perpendicular position u 01 G M I Poor little birds Were they victims at last of the cold and the cal I Our younlr readers are asked to fin ish this little story showing what became I be-came of 113 sparrows and Whether I the cat was disappointed or not Watch ihis page for the concluding part 1 and compare It with yours |