| Show pup THE OODEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINESATURDAY EVENING MAY 6 1930 R Burgess Uncle Ray's Corner about ' everything that went on there! the quar"Many tourists come tostones are ry every year Huge cut sometimes and are placed in parks where the tourists and others can see them "Well Uncle Ray I wish you the best of everything Again I want to say I liked it very much to read something about my city in your By Thornton W Burgess Waterfoot's Double Scare Those longest live who understand That danger lurks on every hand — Old Mother Nature There is no one so big or no one so small that he lives wholly free from danger It jfs those who never forget this who live longest So never think that others are any better off in the matter of sudden column" I —UNCLE BAY frights than you are Peter Rabbit had made the acUse this coupon to Join the new of Waterfoot the Water quaintance Scrapbook club: Shrew over at the Smiling Pool Tc Uncle Ray He had watched Waterfoot run on Care Standard-Examinthe surface of the water dive swim Ogden Utah and walk on bottom He told Dear Uncle Ray: I want to Join Mrs Peter all the about it the 1850 Uncle Ray Scrapbook "He looks a lot like his cousin Club and I enclose a stamped Short-Ta- il the Shrew only he has to a long tail instead envelope carefully addressed of a short one myself Please send me a mem- g and big broad hind feet He is a real Shrew Yes my dear he is bership certificate a leaflet how to make a Corner Scrap-boo- k a real Shrew You would know of my own aod a printed that Just to look at him" cover to oil on the "I don't want to look at him -paste design my scrapbook said Mrs pete I don't like Shrews" Name aald Peter Just aa if Mrs Peter hadn't said a word "he is Street or R F D just as much at home in the water as is Jerry Muskrat Sometimes I State almost wish we lived In the water" "Don't —be silly" exclaimed Mrs City —— — — —— — — — A Little Saturday Talk: A Letter From Holland A letter from a girl in Holland through the quarry It is a labyrinth and people sometimes get hat come to me Here is what lost there Four Catholic priests the writes went in there with a rope which "As a Dutch girl I was very much pleased with your article on the Mosaaur and the skeleton which was found in the Netherlands It's a good thing for people of faraway 'nations to learn about one another "The quarry which you wrote about is where I am living It's on the side of St Peter's Hill and this hill is behind my house On top of it is a fort which was used to defend our city in former centuries Now the fort is used as a restaurant and playground "Saint Peter was in the past a village with its own lord mayor but now it is under the lord mayor of Maastricht Maastricht was the first Dutch city freed by the Americans they fastened outside but it was cut through on the sharp edge of a wall Later the four starved bodies were found "Thousands of names have been written on the walls of the cave Painters and sculptors work in there too Some mosasaur bones are still in the cave "Now I'm going to tell you something interesting The cave proved to be a good shelter from bombs during the second world war and some of the paintings of Rembrandt were hidden there When there were air raids we went to Be the quarry to take shelter fore the war ended some people lived there for v eets There were ovens inside to bake bread and long tables also electric lights and In 1944 radio loudspeakers People slept in "You can walk beside the hill straw with blankets over them "Sick persons were nursed by until you reach Liege Belgium As small children we always went Red Cross nurses There were boys to find fossils of little animals who played songs on guitars and which were stored in the hill other instruments I guess MosasThere are guides who lead you aur would have been astonished - Peter "Why In the world should Because they know a little about folded it back on his shoulders and a subject they think they know very very slowly walked along you want to live in the water "Well for one thing I don't think all about it at the edge of the water At every they have so rrtany enemies to The very next evening Peter was step he stopped long enough to watch for and when one does try back at the Smiling Pool For a search in the water for a fish or to catch one of them out of the time he saw nothing of Water-fo- Frog within reach and along the water he can alwaya dive into the long Jerry Muskrat and Mrs Jer- shore for a or any one else water and be perfectly safe I ry were swimming about Old Mr small enoughFrog for him to swallow isn7t guess Jerry Muskrat afraid of Toad and the Frog chorus were do- down that long throat of his anybody when he is in the water ing their best Redwing the BlackSuddenly Longlegs took a swift and it must be just as safe there bird was singing his goodnight love stride forward and bis long neck for Waterfoot" said Peter was shot out and down for its full song to Mrs Redwing It "You are talking about some- lovely and peaceful there the hap- length The great spear-lik- e bill thing you don't know anything py hour at the Smiling Pool Up struck but just too late Peter had about Any one as small as a Shrew from the Big River with slow beat just a glimpse of a small person must have to watch out all the of great wings came Longlegs the scrambling for the water There time wherever he is" declared Mrs Heron At the edge of the water was a faint plop and splash Peter Peter just a little way from where Peter had seen who that small person "He probably has to when he is was he dropped his long was It was Waterfoot the Shrew on land but not when he is in the legs sitting which had been straight out He was sure of it water" retorted Peter aa if he behind him while flying looking "I'm glad old Longlegs didn't knew all about it I suspect he like a long thin till folded his catch him" thought Peter "Yes he did lot A of folks are great wings stretched his long sir I am so But what a scare thought that way The jump to conclusions neck up for a look all around then Waterfoot must have had! 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