Show I The Story FOR TONIGHT TONIGHT THE RUNAWAY VASE There once liVed In an old old-fash- n d parlor a little china boy with bag on hIs back and that was wasJa wasia Ja ia too fhe boy had golden hair and deep blue eyes and his coat was a maroon maroon ma- ma roon color while his trousers were green so you see he was a very gaily dressed little fellow The bag was really the vase part and held water for flowers and for forman man many a long year the little boy had carried this burden without ever thinking It a burden but rather enjoying enjoying en- en it when the pretty flowers were put upon his back I But there came a day when he saw another boy standing on the table In Inthe Inthe the center of the room with a gun on I his shoulder and a dog behind him and China Boy began to be unhappy This other boy was not made af chIna but of some sort of gray plaster plas- plas ter but this ChIna boy did not notice all he saw was the gun and the dog and he began to think I He thought he would like to be a hunter too and d have e a gun and a I ar dog I have s stood h here all ll these es years he said one night and car car- ned this bag now I should have car I a good time I 1 think and I am going I to run away I ISo So he waited that night until all alii was still around the house and the I chickens and hens were fast asleep outsIde and then he happened to see I on the other corner of the mantel where ho he stood a little white plaster plas- plas ter dog lying on a white plaster matThe matThe mat II The very dog for me thought China Boy and over he went to the I dog Come with me I 1 am going hunting he said I Oh I never stand up replied I Plaster Dog r I have been lying down all these years and I am sure sur I my legs are v very ry stiff J I think I will stay right here I Oh You are missing missing- a lot of fun said China Boy Look at that boy boyon boyon on the table and the dog following him They have a good time while you and I have never done anything but carry a bag and lie on a mat I come along I But the Plaster Dog shook his head and went to sleep quite content with hIs lot and China Boy decided he I would run away alone He was on the mantel as I told you and the only way to reach the floor was to jump down and he did Poor little China BOy there he was on the floor but he could not run away for one little foot w ws s broken right off and a pIece of the bag he carrIed too I There they found him the next morning he was was mended of course and stood on the mantel again but never could he be trusted to hold flowers again I wIsh I had not run away he I sighed one night and the little china shepherdess standIng near who was Candlestick heard himI him I knew you would be sorry she said but I knew too there was no use telling you so you had to find out for yourself you arc are very lucky that you were not broken In pIeces so they could not mend you You se see we are made for orna- orna I ment and should not try to do tui I things for which we were not I am sure you are rIght replied China Boy Doy I do wish I 1 had n t tZ- tZ tried d to run away |