Show THE By Hal Cochran I I I II I IU 1 uI ri i iI I I r 4 READ THE STORY THEN lEN COLOR THE PICTURE The small balloons the held rose quickly That's why COppy yelled For goodness sale sake hang on real tight The ground Is way be- be low We Ve cant can't be hurt up in the theair air Theres There's nothing here to bring bringa a scare so so lets let's just keep on floating tin till We find out where well we'll go How queer It seemed to float on high among the clouds up in the sky A bit of breeze was blowing and the picked up speed They all went swinging to and fro First very fast then ver very slow till finally Clowny's Clowny red balloon was blown up In the lead And then they started dropping down Said We Ve are are- oer o'er a town I plainly see some buildings and a steeple and ad a farm I wish the wind would get real strong so sowed sowed wed we'd rise up where we belong I fear if we drop lower we will surely come to harm The trip by now now was getting tou tough h. h for they had dropped down low enough to have to dodge the trees and things that rose up near their feet l I My goodness me said Coppy lou lou supposing wed we'd fall in that crowd The others looked and saw a throng ot of people in iii the street Oh well said downy Clowny in disgust disgust dis- dis gust I wish my old balloon would bust Im I'm tired of dodging every every- thing It makes my bones all ache Instead of bobbing all around Id I'd rather be down on the ground Im I'm brave enough to jump except a lot lotof lotof of bones might break And then he got a quick e. e A steeple rose up toward towar the skies and Clown Clowny chanced to blow that way while skimming o oer o'er r a house Just as he reached the steeple top he felt his journey quickly stop and then he found the steeple point had caught ht him by the blouse The have an accident in the next story Copyright 1927 NEA EA Service Inc |