Show Stories By L. L Frank Bawn f Dorothy Meets Butt Button Bright Bright n-Bright 1 wh When 1 Dorothy decided to trust rust to Toto roto to find the way way home for them I she she said goodbye to the Shaggy-Man Shaggy to Toto t to go gp ahead The I little dog pranced briskly along for Zor I I some s I 1 distance when he turned I around and nd nd looked at his mistress II questioning I Ii i Oh Olt dont don't me ma to tell eU you I anything I I I dont don't know the way she id have to find it your your- self J But ut Toto He fIe wagged his tail tall and sneezed and shook his ears and trotted back where they had left the shaggy man From h here re he started along another road then came back and tried another but ach each time he found the way strange j and decided it would not take them I Ito to the the farmhouse Finally when j Dorothy had begun to tire with chasIng chasing chas- chas j j ing after hIm Toto sat down panting beside the he shaggy man and gave up I Dorothy sat down too very thoughtful thought- thought fu ful The little girl had encountered some queer adventures since she came cameto I Isome to live at the farm but this was the of them all To get lost in fifteen minutes so near to her home and andin in the unromantic state of ot Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas sas sas was was an experience that fairly bewildered her Will vm your folks' folks worry asked the shaggy man his eyes twinkling in a pleasant way I I spose so answered Dorothy with i a a. sigh Uncle Henry says theres there's always something happening to me but Ive I've always come come home safe at the last Jast So perhaps hell he'll take take comfort and think Ill I'll come home safe this time Im sure you will said laid the 1 shaggy man smilingly nodding at her Good little girls never come to any harm you know For my part Im good too so nothing ever hurts me me I Dorothy looked at him curiously His clothes were shaggy his boots were vere shaggy and full of ot holes and his hair and whiskers were shaggy But his smile was sweet and his eyes were kind Why didn't you want t to go go to 10 Butterfield she asked Because a a. man lives there who owes me 15 cents and if It I went to Butterfield and he saw me hed he'd hed want to pay me the money I do dont don't t want money my dear WhY not she inquired Mon Money y declared the shaggy man makes people proud and haughty I t dont don't want to be proud and haughty All I want is to have people love me and as long as I own the Love Maglet Magiet Magiet Mag- Mag iet let everyone I meet Is sure to love me dearly The y The Love Magnet Why what's hat ff show you if It you wont won't tell anyone he he- answered In hi Ina hia a alow low mysterious mys- mys voice 4 There Ther isn't anyone anyone to tell I Toto said aId the girl The shaggy man searched in one pocket carefully and and In another pocket and in a third At last he drew out a small parcel wrapped In crumpled rumpled paper and tied with a cott cotton n string He unwound the string opened the parcel and took out a abit abit abit bit of metal shaped like a horseshoe It was dull and brown and not very pretty This my dear said he he Impre im Im- pre is the wonderful 1 Magnet t. t It was wa given me by ax an Eskimo In the Sandwich Islands Islands- where there are n no sandwiches at all allan all all- an andas as lo long g as I carry It ever thing 1 I meet meet- will love me e dearly uYI Why y didn't the Eskimo keep it she asked looking at the Magnet 1 with v interest V He H got tired being l loved ved J and nd 19 longed ge fr someone to h hater t hIni him So he gave me the l Magnet t and nd the very next day a grizzly bear ate him he he- he sorry he-sorry sorry then sh she in in- in i iJo Ho Jo o didn't say replied the shaggy ma man map wrapping and tyl tying g the Love Magnet 1 with gra great care and putting it ft away it-away away Vay in another pocket But the bear beat didn't se seem m sorry a bit bit he I added Did fd you rU know the the bear hear asked Dorothy V yes w we used to play ball together together to together to- to gether in the Caviar Islands Islands' V The bear loved me because I had the Love Lov Magnet I couldn't blame him for tor eating Bating the Eskimo bec because use it was his hIs' Mature at r tto to to do 30 no 0 I. I said Dorothy I knew a tIun Hungry ry Tiger who longed to eat fat babies because it was his nature to but he never r ate any because h he hO had hada j a Conscience V This V bear ear replied the shaggy man 5 J sigh had no Conscience yot you aee The shaggy man sat silent tor for sev sev- era oral minutes apparently considering the cases cases- cases the of-the the bear and the tiger while ToO Toto watched him with an air of ot great Interest The little dog was d doubtless thinking of ot his ride in the V shaggy manJI pocket and planning tc to V keep out of ot Teach reach c ch In the future At last the shaggy man turned and ani inquired your name little girl I My names name's names name's Dorothy said said she sh V Jumping uP up again but what are we going to do We cant can't stay here forever V you know Lets take the seventh road he suggested Seven Is 15 a a. lucky number I f r girls named Dorothy V V The seventh from where From where you begin to count 1 So she he e counted seven roads road and the these se looked Just like all alf the others b but the shaggy man pot got ot up fr from m the V ground rund rr where he had been sitting and s ted i-ted down this road as if It sure it I w i the b best bt t way to go and Dorothy Dorothyn n Toto followed him h he- he seventh road was a good goodroad I road and vand curved this way a and d dUI V UI that t winding V V gre green n i i ow V and fiel fields I covered with I daisies and jand and buttercups and past g Ups dups of shady trees V There were I no houses of any sort to be seen and roi some distance nce they met with no noV nol V l Ym's ng creature cr atur at Vail all V Dorothy began to fear they were i getting tUng tIng 8 a good V way from the farm farm- house houie since here here- ev everything was st strange ange to her to-her h her r but It V do n no Jo coid d at Vail to to togo go back where the I I r ds all met met because because the next I V Y might lea lead her Just justI I ni home V I V n beside the the shaggy shaggy nan xian an r I ed cheerful tunes to beguile t i. i t fy y until by and an anby by they thy 1 rn nF the road 0 4 and n e. e i J V 1 1 SV 1 I I r 7 J Jt j. j tf t. V V V f I I I V I c V V I 4 i 1 f V V I VP V Vl V V tt l V V V V V V Q l V V t 4 V F- F V I V V Vt VV V 4 V V THIS MY DEAR IS THE WONDERFUL LOVE MAGNET r j i 1 them a big ch chestnut tree making a shady spot over the high high- way In the shade sat a V little boy dressed in sailor clothes who wa was digging a h hole le in the earth with a abit abit abit bit of ot wood He must have nave been digging some time because the hole was already big enough to dr drop p a a. football into Dorothy and Toto and anti V the shaggy man came t to a halt before the little littleboy littleboy littleboy boy who wio kept on digging In a sob sober r rand and persistent fashion V V Who are you asked the girl V V He looked up at her calmly His His' face was round and chubby and his eyes were big blue and earnest I Im In Button-Bright Button said said h f r V V But what's your re real l name she inquired V Button 25 i t. t V That isn't a a ar r aIl trulY name mime she sha exclaimed VV r T it he asked s still t ll digging Cour Course V pot Rot Its It's just a a a-a a thing tOV to c call lf 3 l U b by You m must st have a a an n name name MustI Must V V V yiV yi i V V V V To Tobe V V be be sure Wl What at V does your tour our V 1 55 minuTIa mamma c call n you V V He paused fn In n his digging V d to think V V V Papa PaDa alwa s said I was bright V V as a button so mamma n ika always called m me Button-Bright Button he said What is name Just Papa What V V V else 1 Dont Don't know V Never mind said the V shaggy shag man smiling Well call call the boy Bu Button Bright ton as his mam mamma n does does' The name is as asgood goodas as any and better i than some I Dorothy watched watched watched the the the boy bo dig asked Where do you live she D Dont nt know know- w was s the reply How did you coine come here Dont know he he said sald again D Dont t you V know w where here you ou c came me from Xi t V No said I he V 4 Why he lie must be flost lost she s said id to the shaggy man She turned to the l boy oy once more V A. A V What are ar you going g to do po she V Inquired d. d V V V Dig said he Ii But you cant can't forever and what are you going to tor do o then f she persisted 4 I V Dont know said sald the boy I But you must knoW s something V declared Dorothy Dorothr getting provoked I II I Must 1 us I h he asked looking lookIng up in surprise surprie v. v I Of course you mu must musti What must I know going to become of ot you for tOr one ne' ne thing she she ansY answered r Do you know what's g going ing to become be- be dome come of me he lie asked V adm admitted edDo ed she Not lot Not not zac Y Do you know going to become of ot you he lie T. T continued c earnestly M y V I cant can't say I do replied Dorothy remembering her pres present nt difficulties The shaggy man laughed Dorothy Dorothy Doro- Doro N No one one knows ne' ne knows everything thy he said l. J But Button-Bright Button doesn't doesn't- seem to know no anything she declared Do BrIght Button Bright i 53 Jf 5 S SHe He sh shook ok his head w which lc had pretty curls all over It ft and V replied with pert perfect ct calmness V Dont Don't know Never Never before had Dorothy met with anyone who could give hex her her so so little information V The boy was evidently lost and his pe people would be bel sure to worry worry about him He seemed two or three years younger than D Dorothy rothy and was prettily dress dressed as ns If It someone someone someone some some- II one loved him dearly and took much pains to make him look well How i I then did he come to be in this Is lonely road she wondered I V Copyrighted by L. L Frank Baum for forthe forthe forthe the George Matthew Adams Service Editors Editor's note note- note Next Next week you shall tl hear V more of ot Button Bright and ofA of ofA I A Queer Village where Dorothy land and the Shaggy Man Button Bright I and nd Toto had need of ot the L. L Love ve Magnet Mag Magnet Mag- Mag n net t that the Eskimo had hadt given Mag-I Mag the theMan Shaggy Man long before t i t |