Show o I The Sandman Story L FOR TONIGHT THE FOUR PAWS CLUB Part I It had been decided among the wood folks that a pleasant way to make the lon long dull dinner seem shorter would be to start a social club to meet once a week G O Mr Fox and Mr l Wildcat thought It should be bo called the Four Paws club and that no birds should be allowed to Join because they had only two legs Then too the name would have to be changed a changed a thin thing not to be thought of I Is for a moment o n said Mr f Wildcat ld b be I cause s he had to th think l long and hard d b be i fore this name camo came to him and se several times a big fat rabbit had slipped right by him and he had lost many good din din- ners nera Mrs Molly Cottontail who had a large family of bunnies showed showe considerable nervousness at the turn the conversation had taken but thought it best to keep quiet as possible so as not to start Mr Wildcats Wildcat's thought in her direction But Mr Wildcat went right on saying that if the birds were allowed to join I Ino the me nb e club Clue CIUL inca then men the chickens would think trunk I Ino the me nb e club Clue CIUL inca then men the chickens would think trunk they ought to come too and he felt sure I that no confiding chicken would ever get to a second meeting of a club where Mr Fox For was a member Mr Fox started to say something about his having nothing on Mr Wildcat when Mr Bear broke in and said that once a week was too often for club to fo meet because because he he always went to sleep when fall came on and did not set his alarm clock to wake up till spring Just then Mr Wood Rat suggested that something to eat should be furnished fur run at each meeting so Mr Bear Jear thought that perhaps after all an he might wake up long enough each week to attend at attend at- at tend the meetings also he wanted to know right away what there would be to eat and how much This question s started a lively dl discus discus- sion slon among the ge Four F ap Paws Paws' r. r some wanted a certain thing thing thing-as as for Instance Mr Coon who was very fond of persImmons mons mona and somebody else wanted something something some some- thing different Mr Groundhog allowed that he could not see how anybody could help liking swat corn com right out of ot the garden and he offered to gather enough for everybody and lag it to the fea feat feast t t i Mr Mr- Wise Vine Old Owl who h had bad d come un- un I and was perched on a branch I overhead listening at this point in the I conversation forgot himself completely and right out too hoo boo and yelled out How SHow do you expect to get Iet corn out of the garden In the winter You better take what yOU vou can get also you better ask the birds to come to that club Somo Some of them have more sense than you I Everyone looked embarrassed and Mr I Groundhog hastened to say that he knew all the time that sweet corn did not grow in winter but he was so anxious to please everybody that he just said it any any- how Somehow the interruption of Mr Owl I put a damper on the company so it was suggested by Mr Fox who had some private business of his own at Farmer Corn Corntassel Corntassel's tassels tassel's s hen roost that the meeting break up and tho the next time the tho question should be decided as to where the meet meet- tag of the Four Paws club should be Mr Fox also suggested that everybody bring his own Refreshments though this did not suit Mr l Bear but nobody cared about that for as Mr l Fox ox said any animal animal animal ani ani- ani- ani mal who could sleep all alt winter and come out In the spring looking lean and hungry hungry hun hun- hungry gry would not be any great addition to a asocial asocial asocial social club anyway Continued tomorrow orrow Copyright 1920 by the McClure Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate New York City |