Show I I The Sandman Story FOR TONIGHT Black Fox and Witch Witch Witch-Ill III It was waa a long lom- trip to the forest Coret pool and back to th th C cave cave t. e of or the witch but there was no other way for Black Kox to re regain aln his shape and the tho next mornIng morning morn- morn Ing he came to the Witch with a stone atone in his hili mouth from the pool The Witch smiled when she saw the stone This Is one of ot man many which I want sho she said al l. l Hop ray avay for fur another another another an an- an- an other It if you wish your own form torm again Back and forth back and forth each day went the poor Frog hopping all night for a long time and then one night just as the th Frog was taking a astone astone astone stone from the 1 pool up came from the bottom a terrible rumbling no noise lee Up Lp to the top of the pool went sent the Frog but hut he held the stone although he was wan badly frightened but when he saw sew the head of ot a big Dragon with two tongues and four tour eyes loom up from the middle of or the pool splash went the stone into the water and roggie I hopped behind a a. atone more dead than alive My son my son lIOn said some one and anti wh when n the Frog looked out there was the old Witch holding out her herlong I long lean arms anns to the Dragon who null stood in th thO th- poo pool Mother I Howe l the creature You toi or nil hl have ha 1 saved a 1 mr- mr R an antI l out oit t of or theP the P pool l he right an un the bank be beide beside beside be- be I side ide the Witch I XII Now heie h Is that ungrateful c pa- pa I luie t ai who helped me ne I wonder said the Ih Witch itch I promised to gi e him I hack back his shape hape again but perhaps he heI j I would rather be bl a 1 Frog than a a. Fox Fx so let us its go home I It did not take hike the Frog long to hop out and show himself though he took good care cure to keep out of ot the Dragons Dragon's reach I Madam Witch I J have kept my word this time give Rive me back my own owa shape he pleaded 0 Oh there you are you miserable littIe little lit lit- tle tIe cheat said the old Witch You 5 shall have your wish for tor you ou have saved my son who was imprisoned un under under under un- un der the pool pooi II by ly an Ogre Oare and and- CO could ld not I j bo be released until one by one the stones atones of his prison were removed j I II If U promise the i you had kept your I Clr first t time you came to itt me you would have had your first t request granted j I and been a able to change yourself Into a I Ii i turkey and back to your own on form f when you you wished bat but you OU tried to deI deceive de- de i I me and I 1 u used d you then to 10 gain r my ends hut But I wa was was afraid of or being drowned I whined the Frog rol Fro 3 I would have been obliged each day to dive for tor the stone you wanted You could have asked a frog to bring It to you said ald the Witch I could not get a real frog trog to do that for me because they all aU are In the I power of the Water Vater Ogre who lives lives lives' down sleep deep in the pool but for yon the they would woul have ha done it and not I questions I did not nt think of rf that ws Wal the lIP if- if pl Illy No 10 von oil 1111 I thought hught only r f t log fr rr nothing Kill Haul the Witch Let thi this be a a. le lesson lenson to tv you ou I and Oo do not try to be e nd dec b with a n itch nitch OR again tin l She touched the rt l Ill he hB U. U I and without stopping T I j 1 Vu VuI 0 J tb I appeared at once in hi pi pI 1 f f I suffering Frog ran raI rot h I with leaps leap and md bo olf Never Novel again did IK lii K Kor nul ut I or think about the satisfied with his hi own h f-h ti P lit 1 wished to change even etc f r I IL a I J N Copyright 1919 b by th M 1 lure paper Syndicate V a w II I L |