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Show PAGE OF PAG E FIVE THE UTE SEN TINE L Midvale, Utap , Frida y, May 10, 1935 EADING FOR HE FAMILY ----=== ~~~~==~= ==~~~ -=-=-=-============================~~========~======================== .c::==~============~====~============~========================f-~ One nl~ht, just as twill~ht was ·meSto--- t>eg-lnning to form, he entere d H:clin· and passed rlown Prince s blll'!{h street. Alon~ one side, a wide ex· panse of well-liept garden s extend · ed to the bold. rocliy hill on which stands t<:;cttnhurgh's ancien t fortres s, its p1·ou d <'astle. After payin);! his week's rent In that door· ~SHAKES MORE THAN and watche d just outsid e advan ce, he bad 6ve shillin gs left, DANN to death starve either way he would EVER barely enoug-h to provid e food for furnis h or log inside that hollow two days. That meant he should Bllly Mink a good meal. AN1'Y :\1EADOW MOUS E was have to use quick action . Danny couldn 't declde which end trappe d. He was trappe d, but Selling Paper s In .Edinb urgh. be the worst and the more would caugh t, which sound s rather When his resour ces had dwind led not t it over the more he shivthough and isn't at all. You see he he to a shillin g, he realize d someth ing mixed Either end was trappe d becaus e Billy Mink was ered and shook. is Danny had to be done immed iately, but was fact The g for hlru just outsid e the dreadf ul. waitin pon· he bear. a as y Hungr fright· what? ay to that holl.ow log Meado w Mouse was so badly doorw only that buy could be what dered on But he ened ·that he wasn't using his usuwas hiding . would supply the most nouris hment in which he all. It never once caught , becaus e that door· ally lively wits at at the least cost I Choco late won! wasn't if Billy Mink that bead his d way was too small for Billy Mink entere I.n a sweets shop, he bough t three for hlm to h· h and Bllly couldn 't waited long enoug penny bars for breakf ast and. to get throug starve . Billy would himsel f be llkee all his efforts . despit him reach North the d crosse away, ing munch . and that is somet hing "You'l l have to come out some ly to starve He came to the fine old bridge . be the very last person would Billy to stay right buildtn g housin g the Scotsm an and time and I'm going In the Great World to do. Billy is the Evenin g Dispat ch, two of the altoge ther too active to be patien t. most Impor tant papers in Scotla nd. But Danny was too frighte ned to Perhap s here was a chanc e; at think of this and so he crouch ed stab a g makin worth was it least shiver ing and shakin g, as misera ble at 1 Inside he inquir ed how much a little Meado w Mouse as ever could be made by selling papers . lived. "I ought to have remem bered The man in charge was astonBilly Mink's wonde rful nose and ished. ''You'r e foolish ," he said. that If he once found my trait "All the corner s worth having are he would follow me straig ht here." held by dealer s alread y." though t Danny . "I ought to have "Is the North bridge taken? " waded in the water after crossin g "No," spoke up some one near the Laugh ing Brook , and so broken It was the that d learne be and him, , my trail. I ought to have found Trave lers View Christ Churc h, Oxford . windie st place in the city, and that a biding place with more than one the it ered consid s dealer news the . financ es reduce d to only eight shlll· entran ce. I ought -hut what's the f>repar ed by Nationa l Geogra phic Society Washin gton, D. C.-"\VN U Service . ly aband oned holi- most undesi rable. r•eople had to sudden IHhe ings, ~~~ use of thinki ng the things I ought RAVE LING as a vagabo nd in day-m aking and sough t work. He clutch their hats and keep out of to Como Out Some to have done and didn't do? There the British Isles Is somew hat was offered a job in a cow barn, the way of whirli ng dust, and usu- "Vou'JI Have Time and I'm Going to Stay Right isn't any. There iliD't any at all." differe nt from traveli ng as a but finding that the purcha se of ally lost no time in getting to the That was quite true. When it Is Here and Wait for You," Detourist . Here's how one Ameri oan suitab le clothin g would eat np all other side; and, anywa y, why should too late there seldom is any use tn clared Billy Mink. saw the countr y on a job hunt which his profit, he declin ed the job and they stop to buy a paper when they thinki ng of what should or should extend ed from Englan d throug h struck out for Worce ster, a much could get one at either end? Tlle here and wait for you,'' declar ed been done. But becaug e 't bright. Billy 1\llnk. "You may just as well not have weren ly Wales and Scotla nd to Edinb urgh. certain cts prospe better ly probab wlth town larger there seeme d to him nothin g else His equipm ent was simple . Over opport unities . Here he obtain ed a But undau nted, be took bls stand come out now as to keep me waitto think about, Danny Meado w a navy-b lue slip-on sweat er he put positio n as labore r to help recon- near the center of the windy bridge , ing, becaus e you are going to be Mouse contin ued to think about his on a roomy khaki shirt, leavin g the struct a store. pulled down his hat, and began caugh t anywa y and I am going to mistak es and to shake with fear. collar open ; got Into rough, brown catch you.'' In Worce ster, he saw the tomb of calling "Disp atch!" And outsid e Billy Mink grinne d and tweed trouse rs, and pulled on an King John, and a table bearin g the ·•sellin g papers !" one woman exdidn't say a word. He held licked bls lips and tried to think Danny old brown snap-b rim hat. Into a coat of arms of the Washi ngton claime d; "And for a wager , I sup- his tongue , which was the wisest of some way to make Danny small havers ack went a chang e of family , two bars and three stars. pose. Well, I'll encou rage no such thing he could do. It usuall y Is wlse Meado w Mouse come out of that today' s, to hold one's tongue . But 1 susunderw ear, a couple of pairs of On the road again, the Ameri can foolish ness I It's not even hollow log. and fs, erchie handk few socks, a pect that it was fear more than rer took a long tramp throug h is it?" @, T. W. Burges s.-WN U Service . wande the and s today' some toilet article s. it's , ma'am ''Yes, hold to wisdom which caused ~anny the wilds of Wales . them for hls tongue . Yon see, poo1· Danny selling not I'm and latest. An Origin al Const itution Early "Summ er In the Count ry. nd. Scotla to Liverp ool en ble-lad vegeta ing ." After watch Ot the thirtee n origina J states , was shakin g all over with fear. He Finall y ne reache d Liverp ool, the a wager his by ted lnster attrac \Vestm on crossi ng Their attenti vehicl es knew that fot· the time being he Massa chuset ts alone still retain s Its seapor t In Brltaln , where he second stared g rians , pedest althou gh consti tution , bridge at dawn, and after visitin was safe, but he also felt sure origin al was determ ined to make his next unusu al height with him the flower and vegeta ble marke ts try for a job. . He obtain ed one at bim, many eyeing that if Billy Mink kept his word amend ed many times. he saw they when can But Ameri cism. the , skepti garden t Coven ln shiftin g furnit ure in the wareh ouse left Londo n for the countr y. Chief of a depart ment store. On the sec- was really tn earnes t, the papers reason for his leavin g was that all ond day there he was offered per- quickl y disapp eared, and he had to the money he had left was 20 shill· manen t work at nearly double the restoc k freque ntly. By seven o'clock lngs-a bout $5, not half enoug h to salary . Reliev ed, he thanke d his he found he had made more than last anothe r week In Londo n. emplo yer, but explai ned that he five shillin gs. WyHigh The next day h~ was one of the passed bad he When was over to see some of the Old combe he came upon the gloriou s, world and didn't want to settle star vender s. On the follow ing day early summ er countr yside of Eng- down until he had done so. After his photog raph and a detaile d arland. The warm moist air was two weeks of workin g, and explor · ticle about him appea red in the filled with the mingli ng scents of ing Liverp ool, he set off for Scot- press. From then on the papers sold like hot cakes. countl ess flower s. Wild roses were land. stone overed moss-c old over trailin g fences along the roadsi de. her head, her two hands were on The walke r arrive d in Oxfor d at the floor. She seeme d to be backremain ed time, comm encem ent lug away from me. I scream ed in there for two days, then set out for fright at the strang e sight and ran Stratfo rd-on- Avon. There be sough t to my mothe r. By Famo us Peop le out the place In Henle y street which "1\.Iother graspe d my hand, and Copyri ght oy Publ!c Ledger. lno. most people believ e to be the Bard's took me back to the scene. The WNU Service . birthp lace. woman was still crouch ing there. In nearby Shotte ry, with hls "I saw my mothe r slap at her, By PERC Y CROS BY and ber hand went right throug h Cartoo nist. WAS born in a haunte d house; • her head and struck the wall ; and OH, DOC TOR ! relate d the comic artist, Per- the mamm y disapp eared. " 'Ghost , ghost! ' scream ed my cy Crosby . ''The first gleam of consci ousnes s mothe r. I scream ed also, not known which I can remem ber in my life ing what the word meant . wa::; seeing a colore d mamm y under ..Mothe r called witnes ses who my the kitche n table, and bearin g agreed that there was no sign or mothe r say that the mamm y .was a hide or hair of the mamm y in the ghost. All throug h my childh ood J room. I was with her to testif;v can remem ber my mothe r compl ain· that she had been there, and that ing to my father that our house when mothe r struck her she disapl was haunte d, until, when I was peared . mothmy three, we bad to move from lt. ence experi ••After that "I can remem ber vividly that first er grew more bervou s and timid ; exper ience- the only time I ever but, like all small boys, the experi saw the ghost. It left an indelib le ence only gave me . more courag e, going lo and more ideas for adven ture. But impres sion on my mind. since "I had gone into the k:ltchen to l have never found a ghost ~uitm--So you tt:ink you!' sister along get a cooky. Under the kitche n that time. No doubt since I was has a tender heart for me? a red born in a haunte d house, I'll p ob-J Pin~ t9io other personJ. Lower left comer down. aton& ~,e of kimono; left aae 4own, aJOos 1 Little :Sall.v -J dunno , but I know table I saw a negro mamm y; bottom of kimono. banda nna was tied tightly aroun d ably die in one." sliP c::ny~ . nu givP l.er a pain. Thornton W. Bu r D T Tru e Gho st Stor ies "I [2] is for Zoe. Marching bed; with a resolute tread. |