Show i i I THE OGDEN (UTAH) 2Q Uncle Ray's Corner Burgess Bedtime Stories Several Kinds of Fish Are Able to "Walk" WThat n Peter Ncpv what appeared neither Snapper nor Mrs Snapper were to blame In Early Dusk It had happened in the early dusy of evening On big wings that made no sound at all Hooty the Great Horned Owl had come flying over from the Green Forest had swooped low over the Smiling Pool and before the young Muskrat had any idea he was in danger he had been picked up and carried away Hooty had made no sound He hadn’t been seen nor heard So it was that was when the young Muskrat missed Snapper the Turtle was blamed for his disappearance It is always so with bad deeds Those who make the mistake of doing them earn a bad name JOE PALOOKA By HAM FISHES r THE JACKSON TWINS By DICK BROOKS V Then they are blamed for other bad deeds and other wrongs with which they have had nothing whatever to do As in the case of Snapper the Turtle a bad name sticks “I don’t think I like Snapper the Turtle” declared Peter Rabbit “I don’t think anybody does and I don’t think Snapper cares” squeaked Jerry Muskrat And he was quite right The next story: The Little Showr-of- f (Copyright 1955 T W Burgess) Barbs HOOK SLIDER By SHERRY DIXIE DUGAN By McEYOY and STRIEBEL By HAL COCHRAN A atylist says the average American girl has a very fine carOf riage when no one was looking But she prefers to ride course either Snapper or Mrs in a sports roadster Snapper came up underneath it It depends on whom you unseen and pulled it down That to whether or not it lend is their way” to the same as giving amounts “Have you ever lost any of your family?” asked Peter Boys will be boys but girls “Not this year but in other these days are running them a years I have” said Jerry “And clothes second each time in the same way One has of the children Most of the time that good Smilout to across swim the warm spring we gone never Pool and has returned turns for out to be a frost hope ing half-grow- n old-fashione- replica of the wife should get result's! d By MERRILL BLOSSFR FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS SHillllS! 6000 LANK LEONAED Jerry Muskrat had said about the way Snapper the Turtle caught his food was quite true Snapper has been known to Duck pull down a fully-grow- n But in the case of one of those children of Jerry’s who had dis- “If it were only fish that Snapper and Mrs Snapper catch and eat no one would care too much” said Jerry Muskrat “But it isn’t safe for anybody smaller than they are to come within reach of either of them Mrs Quack lost another of her children yesterday It really is awful Something ought to be done about it But what can anybody do?” “Did Mrs Quack see Snapper or Mrs Snapper take that young duck?” Peter wanted to know Simply Disappeared “That “No” replied Jen young duck simply disappeared “Thl Bj has been the cause of their disappearance When you think of it it is really awful the way they come up beneath the unsuspecting and pull them down” “I am glad my children don’t live in the Smiling Pool” declared self-addresse- d- Pool MICKEY FINN 1955 Of course one of those Turtles Price a Bad Name? does a wrong but once or twice In reputation pays a price —Old Mother Nature Almost every one has at some time or another found this true It is not by what they may do but by what they have done that Unpeople judge one another rememare bad deeds fortunately bered by others longer than good deeds “He is all bad” declared Jerry WTho It teems strange to thinlf of tide leaves small ponds in the fish walking along the bottom of sand when the main mass of wathe sea but certain fish do that ter goes back to the ocean Blennies are tiny fish When at least in a sense of the word they usually measure “walk” The fish known as sea from one inch to five inches in robins have fins which serve as length Besides employing a pair legs of a sort These fins are be- of fins for moving a blenny flips hind and below the head its tail against a stone or other Baby sea robins are so small at object and in that way is able the time of hatchings that 16 of to make a long skip them ened to end would cover Walking perch (sometimes only one inch When they grow called climbing perch) live in to full size they often reach a southeastern Asia also in lakes and ponds of the East Indies and length of 12 inches Sea robins usually stay away Philippines They can climb steep from very deep ocean water banks and are able to cross Most of those on the western side fields If they move in damp of the Atlantic are found within grass they may live 24 hours close range of the North Ameri- while outside of water can coast from Nova Scotia down For NATURE section of your to South Carolina scrapbook UNCLE RAY Oystera worms and small fish make up the chief food of sea Tomorrow: Fish Which Turn robins They hunt for victims Flips while moving slowly along the Interesting life stories of Mobottom zart Beethoven Chopin Brahms If you ask whether any fish can Strauss and Liszt are told in the get out of water and walk on illustrated leaflet called MASland the reply is “yes” A few TERS OF MUSIC This will be kinds of fish can live an hour sent without charge to any reader or even several hours while mov- who asks for it and encloses a “I am glad my children don’t ing about on land stamped envelope in live the Smiling Pool” deBlennies sometimes walk or Address your letter to Uncle Rav clared Peter skip from one pool to another on Publishers Syndicate 30 North a beach In some places the high LaSalle Chicago 111 Muskrat in his squeaky voice He was speaking of Snapper the Bjr HERSHBERGER Turtle FUNNY BUSINESS “I saw him catch and eat a fish” said Peter Rabbit who was sitting on the bank of the Smiling full-grow- MAY 24 TUESDAY EVENING STANDARD-EXAMINE- ft KNOWORFLW YAHI RINGS AT ELEVEN PEUS MORE CAF OP DAISY MRSWEMP 5553 S3? 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