| Show The Magical Mushroom left leU Land and went back to the Fairy Queens Queen's palace while the twins continued continued con con- their Journey through the queer place So many things were upside down that It was enough to make one dizzy Tho creeks flowed uphill and even the hills were sometimes only holes In the ground Fences stuck up in the air In Instead Instead Instead In- In stead of ot staying staying- properly on In their sides as sensible fences do The trees grew with their branches turned In and the I apples and plums and pears In the orchard were Were square Ducks scratched ed for worms while chickens and turkeys swam on the ponds horses were squealing and drinking buttermilk out of ot troughs In Inthe Inthe inthe the big sties sUes while the hogs were eating eating eating eat eat- 1 ing hay and pulling the plows in he the fields Dogs mewed and cals cats barked birds ran around and rabbits flew picture v were ere hung outside the houses while vines grew in the parlors whales nibbled nibbled nibbled nib nib- bled the grass by the roadside and the cows swam far about to sea smoke down and rain fell up alive I get dizzy Just talking about It It so BO you may know how the Twins felt By and by they came to an old man hobbling along the road In a pair of ot tight shoes and groaning loudly wrong aswed Nick kindly Can we help you Oh yes you can but you cant can't answered the old man Its my shoes They pinch pinch pinch- Why dont don't you take them ot off suggested Nancy If U I did I would never get there said the old man I I can only walk walkin in shoes that hurt and I haven't a a cent In the tho world I am so poor I have to go and g get gt t my thousand dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars out of ot the bank so I can buy mea me mea a loose pair of ot shoes Then I 1 cant can't walk wall so I can spend it Oh my cried Nancy NancyI I I cant can't understand you at all all right said the old man Dont DonUt worry Youre You're a little queer In your head head that's that's all After you live in Up Mix-Up Land awhile and beCome become be become be- be come a Upper Mix-Upper you'll understand anything I Away he hobbled still groaning To Be Continued II Copyright 1923 NEA S 'S Service |