Show THE OGDEN (UTAH) 3b STANDARD-EXAMINE- R WEDNESDAY EVENING DECEMBER 12 1951 Uncle Ray's Corner By Thornton VV Burgess f The Very Very Sleepy One Heed Mother Nature's clear Hunters Narrowly Escaped Attacks by Elephants nW HOW THIS GAL HOW? MAKES HER WORK CHEWS TASTY WRiwtk' a t tii SPEARMINT a sound sleep the soundest kind of sleep He had gone to bed for the winter in a snug little home in the ground beneath the roots of an old stump in the Green Forest Buster Bear had dug around and pulled over that old stump He had scooped a lot of sand out of the hole where the stump had been Without knowing it he had scooped Nimbleheels out and sent him rolling down withthe little lumps of earth outside the hole He hadn t seen the small Mouse You see the intent If a man bad legs five or six feet long he might walk as fast s an ordinary man can run That is about what an elephant does when it charges It walks with high speed making a gait something like a run but it never If it galloped it might gallops strike a log and tumble over The big beast can really cover It has been estimated to ground charge at the rate of 100 yards in 10 or 11 seconds On level ground an expert human runner would have trouble In escaping from such a charge the midst of the jungle even the fastest runner would be likely to lose His best hope would be to get up in a tree He might hide in the midst of bushes but his position probably would be found with the elephant's keen sense of smell One day a South African hunter P J Pretorius wounded an elephant in the midst of the jungle Crawling through a mass of bushes he intended to shoot again but the elephant suddenly came into view and swung its huge trunk toward him The trunk missed the head of Pretorius by hardly an inch and knocked his hat off: Later he fired Burgess Bedtime Stories Obey her rules as it were meant Peter Rabbit Nimbleheels the Jumping Mouse yawned And because Nimbleheels yawned Peter Rabbit vawned The yawning habit is catching Peter Rabbit wasn't really sleepy lie yawned only because he saw his little neighbor yawn1 But that same little neighbor was sleepy Yes sir he was very very sleepy Right that minute he Honesty Pays JACKSONVILLE Fla Dec 12 probably was the sleepiest person in all the Green Forest You see (UP) — A young motorist turned he had been rudely awakened from himself in for speeding explaining that he was driving behind antains lSfine illustrations and many other man who was ticketed and facts about the name of people To was going almost as fast "We conget a copy send a stamped gratulated him on being so conscienvelope to Uncle Ray entious and sent him on his way" Publishers Syndicate 30 North and officer said "He was cold soChicago III ber" self-address- ed latter had been rolled up tight in af somewhere Won't VOtl" Pr)rr mM luul mue oan ana naan t looked at all like a Mouse In fact he hadn't Still Nimbleheels made no reply Vile voice looked like any living thing Nim- He blinked sleepily He bleheels was in that long long sieepuy ine irutn is he wasyawned a terlong sleep called hibernation am ribly upset small person It was had gone to sleep before cold weather had come and he had ex- world pected to stay asleep until well into 1 suppose all your food was in it the sprin Nimbleheels the Jumping Mouse ut of which Nimbleheels the h- He had been wakenea bv mllv was tossed round ' bright Mr Sun who had islowly Nimbleheels began to ' nn J iic luuiun i move mm tin miu aDoui M he was a uj ternaps stay asleep after being warmed up little stiff You know he had gone Now he was unwillingly begin- - to bed early in the season and ning to move about He didn't know from the time he had fallen asleep what had happened He didn't until now he hadn't moved If his know why he was awake He didn't legs were stiff it would be no wonJ I PVPn lennu U'horo ho ti u- Vrtii caa in Trr4An4 U the pulling over of that old stump if they were not stiff under which he had gone to sleep "I'm sleepy" squeaked little ' had completely changed all his Nimbleheels Peter Rabbit asked "Aren't you hungry?" asked surroundings him where he would spend the Peter who alwavs thinks first of winter now Nimb'eels said his stomach Some folks are that nothing merely yawned way "I'm sleepy" "You will have to have a home nimbleheels shook his head "II ! I'll "" : i A j - 1 -- i B OH ' I CAN'T FIGURE WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS SCREEN IT'S ALIVE La-Sa- Bull elephant eating his gun and the wounded beast fell dead In a moment a little elephant caame charging at Pretorius It d was a baby though a rather baby The hunter put his hand on its forehead and stepped to one side The baby elephant followed him to camp and was placed in a pen Another hunter Baron von of Sweden fired at an Then elephant and wounded it came a charge and the hunter fired again The second shot failed to find a fatal spot and the elephant ran straight toward him He was leanand ing against a small tree jumped to one side just in time The elephant butted the tree down and sank its tusks in the ground one on either side of the tree Then it left the spot and soon was hidden in the jungle For Nature section of your scrap-boo- k UNCLE RAY Tomorrow: Revenge in the Jungles i I v BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM TO I RESPOND TO THE BBS! TUNING DIAL r Funny Business GOSH A STATIC ) MAYBF T - 1 to go to Then you 11 have to- - look around squeaky and find a bed A bed isn't going to come to you You wiD have to go to it" said practical Peter "I'm too sleepy" whined Nimbleheels Peter suddenly sat i up" very I 6 straight his long ears pointed right up to jolly round Mr Sun Peter drew a long breath "As I live and oreaine nere comes Keddy Fox down the Crooked Little Path" said Peter In a whisper The result of that whisper was surprising The sleepy one forgot all about wanting to go to sleep What he suddenly wanted and wanted with all his heart was to let out of sight and do it before he was seen He began to dart this way and that He moved so quickly and dodged out of sight so quickly that Peter lost sight of him almost at once The next story: Bad Luck Turns little to Good Luck sqneake Nimbleheels Copyright 1951 T W Burgess) I j '-- j rC- K£ OOP ' — - ' ANDOOOLAVy- Vssl 6TUJLGOT ONE M ''AO FUSES L£F17jHR fff? 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