Show V--T r ’ 'lOB THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINE- —- R SEPTEMBER OGDEN UTAH THURSDAY EVENING 1 BEDTIME 1955 - STORIES t UNCLE RAY'S CORNER from Bear Dogs Helped to Save Davy Crockett ever seen Twice he shot it - had A lodging house was operated byjohn Crockett at the Jime his aon Davy returned after almost two years of wandering Instead of telling his name Davy mixed with the other guests Later in his life he gave this account of his first meal “After a while we were all called to supper I went with the rest We had sat down at the table and begun to eat when my eldest fitter recollected me She ran and seized me around the neck and exclaimed'llere is my loat brother!" The parents were kind to Davy and on his part he tried to be a good son from that time forward He agreed to work for a schoolmaster two days each week and in payment the teachfor four er' gave him free tuition this to Thanks plan a week days he learned a little about reading writing and arithmetic during the months that followed but failed to kill it He might have been mauled except for the help of his hunting dogs The dogs annoyed the bear while he loaded his trusty rifle (known as Betsy) once more His third shot ended the bear’s life It was found to weigh 600 pounds Other backwoodsmen admired Crockett’s ability as a hunter and supported him when he entered politics He was elected to the House of Representatives at Washington three times Leaving Tennessee at length Crockett moved to Texas There he helped a band of Texans to defend the Alamo from an attack by a Mexican army Two women a baby and a small boy escaped from the Alamo but all the men including Crockett died The death of Davy Crockett took place about six months before his 50th birthday Another widely known pioneer who died in the Alamo was James Bowie inventor of the Bowie knife For Biography section of your scrapbook MICKEY FINN By THORNTON ' W BURGESS WnY LITTLE FRIEND WAS NOT AFRAID ' Only knowledge makes it clear Whom and what and when to - §B fear — Old Mother Nature Bandy the big Watersnake who lives in the Smiling Pool had just glided past Little Friend the Song Sparrow and Little j Friend hadn't so much as lifted: a wing to fly away Bandy had paid no attention to the little Sparrow and it was perfectly plain to the two little Wood Mice Snowfoot and his pretty mate Tinkle Mouse that Little Friend had not been in the least afraid Yet they knew that he was very much afraid of Bandy’s cousin 5Ir Blacksnake As soon as Little Friend came near enough Snowfoot had a question ready “Why weren’t you afraid of that fellow?’’ he squeaked I “Because” replied Little was nothing to Friend “there fear Here ' comes Bandy back again Just watch him Perhaps you will learn why it is that I am not afraid of him and that you don’t need to be afraid of him” “Perhaps we don’t but just JOE PALO OKA By IIABI FISIIFJt VaAMSLATlON lie had started to swallow that fish head first enough to swallow that fish whole? Yet that Was just what he was doing He had started to swallow that fish head-firs- t j Just then Little Friend dropped down in the grass beside them “Now you see why I am not afraid” said he “No I don’t” replied Snowmanfoot into Davy Crockett grew “It is because he likes fish hood in Tennessee and earned a skillful he never bothers birds” exand and shot a name as crack the same we’ll keep out of sight” we Little Friend i“Mr Black-snak- e are months two In hunter Snowfoot and this the plainedcatches squeaked birds hut doesn’t told he bagged 105 bears! two little mice did bother fish Bandy is a fisherWhile hunting on a winter day —UNCLEAR AY STOPPED ON BANK man and Mr Blacksnake is a Tomorrow: Kit Carson he came upon the largest bear he ' The big snake stopped on the hunter” By HERSHBERGER hank at the edge of the water “Just the saine I wouldn’t trust FUNNYBUSmESS 9 right in front of where they that fellow” said Snowfoot in his were hiding in the grass Fuf funny squeaky little voice “I what seemed like a long time wouldn’t want to be near him if Bandy didn’t move Neither did he were hungry and there they Then Bandy lifted his head weren’t a fish where' he could slightly He did it very slowly catch it” “There wouldn’t be a thing for He seemed to be staring down in the’ water It was very still Not you to he afraid of” declared a single Merry Little Breeze was little Friend “Hfe doesn’t like around so there was not the tini- folks in feathers and fur” The next story: Snowfoot is est ripple on the water From where they were the young mice Venturesome could see into the water What (Copyright 1955 by W Burgess) Thornton saw made' them that they forget moment snake for the There big was a fish in the water very near the snore It was a bigger fish than the minnows whom By HAL COCHRAN they had seen Grandfather Frog watching for and Rattles the A West Virginia bus conductor Kingfisher diving for It wasn’t a big fish but it was big to the has become a preacher He should little mice Then something hap- be accustomed to taking dimes pened so quickly they didn’t see Tourists are ifagain trying how it happened' That fish was fold maps corcaught and the one who caught their darndest to t t it was the big snake whom they rectly i had been watching A in Kentucky gives Snowfoot J and— Tinkle Mouse cough pastor to his congregation drops won- We watched in wonder if it helps them to der as the big snake began to cough Up swallow that fish It just didn’t Often a word to the wife is '‘My daughter added her fiance's photo to our collection look possible How in the world could he open his mouth wide sufficient-t-t- o of trophies!" start something MERRILL BLOSSEB By FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS THE JACKSON TWINS Bt dick Twer rrs CLOSE TO IT BN TME j brooks on you its kougmoz TUAN ON ME TWIN- - AT V LEAST I HAD PUN AMP cvates while you WERE I summectimey — - pok slaing THE THORNES' HOOK SLIDER By SHERRY BARBS -- I open-hiduthe- t d Dtt A 6000 Job voice OF YOURS m wnru THAT R06 worm U DIXIE DUGAN By BIcEVOY and STRIEBEL FIGURED HE'D FIRE "" i Q- rJx:VL RED RYDER By FRED H ARBI AN THEM I ALSO FIGURED ITO Ot FUN HANGING AROUND HCkC I OR f WHILE r Ju - V - A H M E3 rf1 Ml' hf found out — NHLN NOT HEARING FROM Mt! 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