Show THE BEAR AND THE BUTTERFLY By Stunrt B Stono The mamma of tho Very Littlest One had gone to tho Kmerpon 1 and Browning Club of Hopedalu She was going to read a paper on The Optimistic Op-timistic Aspect of Rabbi Den Ezra and the Very Littlest Ono took her departure with Ri romaiKablo resignation resigna-tion for tho struggle with tho Optimistic Optimis-tic Aspect had not tended to optimism in Its author Now the Very Littlest One and tho Next Littlest One could play In tho corner with the AlsforAcorn blocks with no scolding one to hinder them In the delightful forbidden pastime of building great Washington Monuments and letting thorn fall with a nerve racking crash on tho red and green carpet For the terrible ones were responsible now only to the Dresden China Girl and tho Dresden China Girl sat on the sofa with tho Celebrated Cele-brated Quarter Back and talked wishy washy stuff The Dresden China Girl and tho Celebrated Quarter Back had engaged themselves just a week ago and they thought the world merely a place for loving and had no time for law and order arrangements In Block LandAnd And you will be gono a long long l week murmured tho Dresden China Girl An endless eternal week complained com-plained the Celebrated Quarter Back I will wrlto twice each day Write me the very throbblngs of your heart pleaded tho Dresden China Girl Pen me the absolute spirit of our love I will pour my Intimate soul Into the black Ink and spread It out over tho sheets and you may read hero and think of me declared the Celebrated Cele-brated Quarter Back Then the loving souls managed the surreptitious kiss of fledging passion while the terrible ones In the cornet busied with Q and H and the Zebra Presently the Very Littlest One held aloft a shaggy brown beast and broke In on the silence of love B Is forBear for-Bear she prattled Theys a bear In this room Oh where shrieked the Next Littlest Lit-tlest One let me hide Thero it is cried the Very Littlest Lit-tlest One there on the sofa holding Aunt Elizabeths hand She said he was a bear I heard her tell my mamma mam-ma soanll she Just laughed and went on dweadful The Celebrated Quarter Back set a rather remarkably fine Jaw and straightened himself up Just a wee bit I see ho said frigidly honey and lavender to my face and when I am gone It Is to laugh The adorable pink in the cheek of the Dresden China Girl had become a burning brlckred Richard she said I didnt mean You havo blasted my life1 exclaimed ex-claimed the Celebrated Quarter Back with the scorn of the hero In melodrama melo-drama He was a very young thing and he really believed what he said Richard the girl began on comoro co-moro but now the Next Littlest One had the forum B Is for butterfly too she said and theys a butterfly in this room Oh where Is the pity pity butterfly butter-fly chirped the Very Littlest One Shes on the sofa too said tho Next Littlest One I heard Mr Richard Rich-ard tell another man soI was right I behind em Oh exclaimed the Dresden China Girl And tho red In her checks went If possible a little deeper Oh she cried my name a byword for Idlers In the street Why Elizabeth cried the Celebrated Cele-brated Quarter Back and tho firmset Jaw relaxed now to take on tho lines of the man who pleads In earnest How could you I will enter a convent the Dres den China Girl walled I will take the veil of the forgotten and oppressed op-pressed And the light of love almost flickered and died there on the old horsehair sofa to give way to tho silent si-lent gloom of misunderstanding Then tho Very Littlest One spoke up again But what Is a Very Dear Old Bear she cried chats what Aunt Elizabeth bald Oh exclaimed the young man on the couch And a flush of pleasur went over tho stern face But the girl had turned her head to the wall where crimson and gold flowers Intertwined Inter-twined in tho gaudy paper Well chatted the Next Littlest One thats the kind of a butterfly Mr Richard called her toohe sail she was a Very Dear Little Butterfly Glory shouted the Celebrated Quarter Back and clasped the Dresden Dres-den China Girl to his heart and the Dresden China Girl did not object al all though the terrible ones looked on In wonder Como on babbled the Very Littlest Lit-tlest One In a moment that sam theyre playln aint any fun Jetr build a great big 110 tolftce house I I |