Show THE SANDMAN I STORIES I ITHE THE LOONS LOON'S CRY Once upon a time long ago the Loon did not have such I a a. disagreeable voice as as he now has and its dismal cry did ones one's spine as asIt asit asit not send I a shiver down it does today The Loon is a aery very ery handsome birdIn birdin bird birdin in summer the upper parts glossy black showing changing colors of ot violet violet vio yb- let and green tints while the back barred and wings are are spotted and with white and the underneath breast all white So you see it had some claim to the I boast it made the night when the fairies were holding a revel re near the water where the Loon lived Some of ot the fairies had wandered away from the others and were flittering flittering flitter litter littering ing about in the moonlight when one of ot them saw the Loon and heard it say to another How ow can anyone even the fairies think they are more be beautiful than we are arc ea Everyone o who s sees es us admires us usand usand I beautiful they I and says we are so wish we could always stay on land so we have no rio one to fear tear as a rival and the Fairy Queen better look after her children if It she does not wish mortals to think more of us than tho the fairies The little fairies were shocked to hear such things for no one had ever dared question their dainty beauty or that every mortal did not love a fairy I better than anything else and wished I to have them always near So off oft ran the listeners to tell ten their Queen and in I a few minutes s the Queen was there to hear for herself I what the bragging Loon was saying The very idea she said that any mortal would rather have the Loon I near by than ono one of ot you my dainty fairies But Dut have no fear the Loon I shall pay for tor this he shall have a cry that will make him so disagreeable to the mortal ear that none will wish to hear or see him Then on I a passing breeze the Queen sprang and as it floated over the Loons she touched their throats with her magic wand and while the birds thought it was the breeze that touched their feathers when they again spoke to each other it was to utter a sad I dismal cry which made every one who heard it wish to put their fingers in I their ears to shut out the sound And while the Loon is the largest and handsomest of ot the diving birds it it has to this day tile the voice given it by bythe bythe bythe the Fairy Queen long lon long ago and andas andas andas as no one wants it near the Loon Is a solitary creature and shy changing from place to place and never ne letting mortals mortal get near it But the Loon is not stupid or crazy as some dome have ha hinted that he Is He lIe HeIs HeIs lIeis Is clever enough when away from land where the Fairy Queen does not wish him to sta stay and it is only on land where the they are seldom seen that the I Loon ever looks or acts stupid Copyright 1921 by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate N N. Y HE SENTENCES HIMSELF HIMSEL NEW YORK April 11 Sentence ll Sentence yourself Magistrate told a vagrant who had been found ly lyIng lying lying ly- ly ing in the street It ought to b be warm b by May said the man Thirty days das said the Judge VASSAR LOOKS AHEAD NEW YORK April 11 Registration I lists of ot Vassar college for tor the fall faU term of ot 1925 have hae Just been closed That I means OO students already have applied ap ap- ap- ap plied Tho The enrolment is limited to this I number I |