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Show Bonner ilM- THE WINDY STORM "I'm ready for a party," said old King Snow, awakening from a nap. "I'm Read y,' Said the King. "How about you, King of the Clouds?" "I'm ready," said the King of the Clouds. "Of course, you're all ready," said a voice. "Your voice sounds so familiar, 1 and it makes me I feel so gay," said Mr. Wind. "Who are you?" "I'm the Month of March;" said the voice. "You can't see me because be-cause I'm a whole month, and I'm made up of days and nights, of mo ments anu nours, of weens until there are more than four weeks, or until there are thirty-one days. "Ail that time I spend with the earth, people, and animals and birds. "I come every year just at this time, and I make you all feel like having hav-ing a regular winter frolic. get a great deal of abuse. People Peo-ple say : " 'Now, be careful in March. Don't take off your warm clothes, for March is treacherous.' "When they say that I am treacherous treacher-ous they mean that I'm apt to. give them mild weather,' and in the very same day give them cold weather and let you blow your head off, Mr. Wind." "I've never blown my head off yet. Month of March, and I've blown pretty band," chuckled Mr. Wind. "True, true," said the Month of March. "Tell us some more about yourself," said Prince Sleet. "Some people are more kindly when ' they talk about me. Some people rather like me. But not so very many. "Some of the birds, however, do me honor to come back while I am here. "Some of the flowers and trees begin be-gin to think about getting up for the spring. "But, on the whole, I'm not a popular popu-lar mouth. I allow all you rascals to do just as you please. "I let you blow and storm. "I let you rain and hail and snow. I let you have fogs and mists and cold rains and winds. "I let you do anything you please. It is the month when the wind and the rain and the snow and the sleet can have a regular frolic. "As soon as I come I blow some of my magic power into Mr. Wind, and he feels then so full of life and energy en-ergy that he wawts to blow and blow Just as he wants to do now. "I have put so much of that magic power into him that people call him the March wind. "Yes, I'm an unpopular un-popular m o n t h. People say I'm api to do anything. "They iav mosi dreadful things about me. They say they can't de pend on me. "They say trial I make people catel cold. I'm sure 1 can't help that. "Creatures will have to look iftei themselves when I'm around, as I am giving all ol you such a good time." "You do . that, all right," they all shouted. pi Ml "Do Me the Hon or to Come Back." And Mr. Wind blew harder than ever, as he said : "Dear Month of March, you're a great favorite of mine, even if some don't like you. "I feel honored and flattered to be called the March wind, after you. dear, wild, windy, stormy, blowy Month of March:'' And then a wonderful windy sionn began. One of the grandest windy storms ever you did see. What His Love Cost Kdward had gone with bis mother for a western trip and the first day that ho had a chance to do any .shopping .shop-ping he purchased a postcard showing show-ing some of the places of interest lie had visited. He wrote on the card: "Dear Daddy Dad-dy I paid five cents for this card, so this will show you how much I love you." Times Have Changed Teacher Johnny, how many d ; s are there in each month? Johnny: "Thirty days hath September. All the rest I can't remember; The calendar hangs on the wall. Why bother me with this at all?" Setting Mother Crazy Kern ice, three years of ae. was asked hy her daddy, who I.:':l i ist returned from work, what s-he had been doing all day. "Oh," she an swered, "just setting mothei crazy" |