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Show I fMiled many times by thinking her; mlitre5s was calling her to cat her dinner when it wus I'olly Just footing I her. 1 I hit the love for adventure was planted in I'oliy'a mind and the next day when the ciikc dour was opened and nhe was allowed to flit about the room. Iter keen eyes looked about for an open window. She dd not see one in that room. but w hen someone op' tied the door, I'olly. who was parched just over it, quick as a flash slipped out before she was noticed and tb-n out she flew through the open window in the next room. I'p to the top of a tree flew Poliy. wh:ie eerybndy called and coaxed her to fly Into her cage, whicn was nung on the tree. Mr. Iog barked and Mistress T'us sat on the ground looking with envious envi-ous eyes at I'olly as she mimicked them both and the nlaughed loudly. When some one at last climbed the tree i'olly flew away to the very top of a tall telegraph pole and luughed as" though she enjoyed the Joge she had p!a d. By and by, with the help of a fireman fire-man nd his ladder. I ouy let herself be captured and put In her c.ige. but-after but-after that when Mr. Dog and Mistres, Puss were talking of adventures Polly-did Polly-did not sit quietly ana listen. "Ha. ha. ha. 'she would laugh. "K took the fire department to rescue me. Talk of adventures, you two do not I know a thing about thut wrd. When I had one 1 made every one talk about it. flow -wow! Me-ow. Com Iuss. Puss." Hut Mr. Iog nnd Puss did not stop longer t pear what Polly hud to ay. "I never did care for that bird." said Mr. Dog. "Nor I." said Pus. "I am sure she would he tough eating." "Oh. I don't mean in that way." said, Mr. Dos. "I am sure I do not know sr&ht you mean, then." said Puaa. 'There is only 1 one way to care for a bird." and be- fore Mr. Dog could explain. Puss ran , for her saucer of milk she saw under! the table. j (Copyright. 1921. by the MeCiure Newspaper PniTicae. New York Citv i ' ' a ai " i. .ssaS:aj THE SANDMAN STORIES Miss Polly's Adventure Miss I'olly I'arrot listened us she swung in her cage, for Mr. lHg and Mistrcsa Puss wer telling of their ad-venturea. ad-venturea. Air. l'g told about being chased by a big Hear when he was out hunting once with his master, "but in the end," aald he, ' we captured that bear and the big rug in the hall was mde from its skin." "I guesa you were pretty acared that lime." giggled M istreas Pun. "Why did you go hunting bears, anyway; you are too smU for ihut. 1 would nay." -We didn't go afier a bear." said Mr. Dos; "we were hunting other game and the bear mut have ten loM. or he would not hae wandered so far from hie home. "He aa p-etiy hungry. Muster said, and I think he was. loo. by the way he chased me. but I guej-a he waa pretty sorry when he found my Master pad a Bun." "WU, that Is some adventure, to be, sure " said Puss, ' but if you ever j caught your foot in a trap you would j think thnt was fur worse than being chafed by h ttev r." "Onoe when I was chasing a mouse I stepped on a trap and 1 nearly lost my foot and I waa so lam for a long time I could not run at all." "You lust the moue. too. I suppose." sup-pose." said Mr. Iog with a laugh "Oh. 1 did hot care anything about thnt," said Puss with a twitch of her tali. "There :.re plenty more mice, but if I had loat that foot where could I have found another, 1 should like to know." "Vou nd I have had. some very ex-filing ex-filing adventure." said Mr. Ikjg. "and liow anytme can live ehut up in a cage us Polly does. I am sure I cannot un-lemiand. un-lemiand. She never had an adventure in her whole Ijfe. poor thing." "Iiow-wow. raid Polly no plainly that Mr. Ijr dropped his tail nnd saiked out of the room for more t.in nce Polly had fooled him and made him thick there was another do iround the house. Mistress Pu b-gan to laugh, but I'oily railed. " ome pu, pu , snd U ran Puss, for she, too, bad been |