Show 1 1 dds daddy r s 4 eveah Eve iii r fairy bairy T T tale ale I 1 PAW GRAHAM BOWER BONNER numion n nw i ONE EYED SPONGE little eugene ns as you may remember loyed loved to sleep in that wnm lie was different from i ya 1 I ninny children toe foe w it I 1 11 I 1 e everyone I 1 likes I 1 k e s to steel some of the time little Ht igene always ways enjoyed going to bed ile he simi simply ay iy loved to sleep ile ho liked to a nap too ile he went to sleep very quickly sometimes li it e I 1 would be speaking and in the middle of li it sentence lie he I 1 would stop stol and y you would find ho he simply simp ay iy loved that lie he had gone to sleep to steel sleep not only that but sometimes he vs would go to sleep before lio tin lind finished d a word for example lie he might be 1 I hope it will bo be a filp aln day tomorrow so I 1 can go swimming and he would leavo leave the word swimming swi taming right in the middle or perhaps he would not even get that for far but would say 1 I hope it will bo be a alne day tomor and before you knew it lie he was asleep and sometimes lie he was snoring I 1 now little eugene owned a aponio apongo which was made ot of rubber but in a shape to look like a little man around the rubber sponge mans waist wasa was a belt of white rubber rind he had rubber eyes with largo large bauo pupils also of rubber when eugene took ills his bath he used this spon sponge one night eugene fell asleep in hla his bath which was a very dangerous thing to do and he was told that ho he must never never never allow himself to do that ile ho had bad been discovered before any harm had find come when lie he was taking ills his bath he must take it art and not lean back against the back of t e tub to doze lie io must do nothing but take ills hla lath when it was bath time of course lie he was so fond of sleep he be would sometimes try to get out of taking his bath not that lie he like to be clean but sometimes lie he think it mattered it if lie he missed a night or maybe two creven three or possibly I 1 into hate to say it four that happen often but quite often it was two and very often one that he missed he used to think how much nicer it was to go right to bed and curl its his hands under tinder ills chin and sleep and bleep bleed when lie he would simply wash his hands and face and not pay any it attention t tile the little rubber sponge would look at him film out of its rubber eyes a really very sud slid took look you dont mean to td say youre going to leave me alone tonight those eyes would seem beem to say eugene stand the look the rubber sponge man gave him lie ile want to hurt the rubber sponge man for that would ills hla looks lie ile bo be so nice without lilt hi eyes and tits his belt ills his eyes were the most important part of him film though of course he be had find arms and a body shaped to look like real arms rind and a real body although it was all a part of the sponge but tile the eyes were the main part of the rubber sponge man still those eyes did look at eugene so BO when lie take a n bath ile he decided lie he would take out just one eye so lie he pulled one eye from the rubber sponge man but the next night that one eye stared at him just as hard as tile the tw i had done before eugene simply had to take a bath balb ue ile stand that look ile he would hurry through tits his batt and not take so BO long over it but chez he only did tits his neck in a very halfhearted half halt hearted fashion the eye somehow low seemed to be b looking at him 1 you do that very well ivell and hero here I 1 nm am to help you the eye seemed to say so eugene would do it much better the eye seemed to stare lit him in just tills this way to make him wash properly youre a dath bath really s said a I 1 1 I master EXI kurosu gerl 4 to tile one eyed rubber sponge roan man youra not n task master but youre a bath roaster master what you are arc and tile the one eyed sponge man I 1 seemed to wink very quickly just once for in mother another second it was the same stead steady y eye us tie before |