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Show nm -__ GO Di Birthday es Flossie''s Little | Party E FO FOE. J oo Mand Walker. Marcuerilte preparing things for Y ereat ; party i gclock at given be would Ich the afternoon BHOUE Fi sie eu pe yetronh ech Saad ale wht ; Ort Uer l to be: sur ~~ tint Knew. Sompanes, yigene es hou the an mor meant .jher at |} Jation I good cheer birthday enjoyed the EI ; | . tist nd ga DO Pg woe ; Tr Nate early royal SP eReuiel ee ae ms i ! ante SAS lipped i ! ie mamma ' the from was still) \jife, tab ind.went up to and cold It was t decorati busy was dining room. PI 1 da , Idom. did an her own liltle room e 8 e the servants go up there. Old furniture, of pieces broken pet odd | ¢ soms adding by and cast-off ind trunks red boxe from |t -brac brik and. littered ind bric-a-brae frame did, picture She attic the in . about | the mamma to her for) sear¢ ht about to began Flossie when her eurprise to she re-| which candlesticks desired |the into taken be shotild al of top on een havi hoods | membered hats,. their off | and wraps The.room: was already ; box, bu nowhere were they | was | rug fur The no und /|to be -of any to suif- the taste pretty enough else | anything than more but white | there all in blue, little miss, for it was After | candlesticks. the wanted Flossie cur-| daintiest. of the with gold, and trunk and |} box and in every searching on/ But of rugs the softest tains and cn, ~ f it ill My i * . PL Z <; | Wily | Sat = taut VAs i } : rT oe | 2 j i a | | | soldiers in pursuit do "The enemy has fled!" But o'er the path they The enemy has led, ~ } j shut with a bang. varkuess, from the 4nd box in total] get down| she step| into a basket of old-time glassware.| When she reached the door she push-| ed against it in vain. The rusty hook} When the Man the _ Moon, Left little balloon Wentiup in the sky; pening and sailing yer gh. 50h Mila shan ia the wadonK Bhacned down his ling Seized ‘hold of balloon, Sut did it no | " arm; ; |} his The Twins pack nto jand | Mean' t wait .n Toon fat his } loo ked tow were : of to yainly be dropped into the threw baek-| iron it secure. the staple} weight she do? Away on;fellow's through the ne Old man did fly Leaving the moon Alone+in the sky. . ; The moon grew so lonely, She wept and she cried; Her heart broke at las And then ahe just died. wrongs. me, him him | about snow 5 wont the old= -elothe "Nov and the) brother, you girls the dear, bravest The the| was Oh,| up mustn't the | and that don't boy balls | the sre. an we in old there town? pack Hank a Bhlitted in 1 Don't this n frown | off to ne Br wry. affair. old)a eee tink that. Gee, : if psi I were omy ed dé in> three hree of us," " But has hat ee part "take she at ‘ very down the vied Het that that quietly Mean poor ene Re take old Hari eae ‘a han think "And what part hey, young man? to iv the oh!" Then Hank, he 7 far gone man alone dtraightened them? wailed. came the she|an the In-| party She her unusual since her one. much Mrs. his take another sald in a] this in-| noise voice Heat his as one iy. and little daughter the in While while, when the spread, guests Knowing to lase, to her to-at-| faile d| remote would that the to corner of ms verit d tior to J i a ; iy ba ertie > Att L , i WW. Lo " {' | Misses plaz I'll see that)you'd of up the wrist,' proudly he be-) had| make her) <Y Fae Catchingse his ground. s assail ms Pat. I'm carvin'-a W'at right tg Bettie |as:;good---or: "Three small better--than yez| | "But you kiddies ideclared Bri ktop people one soir, an/ clothes man, who me or he But in the one made il do defense who a is lunge in font both of an weaker for Heer. paneled. himself aside, eet Mektop ts two as put into } "I'm not "phwat | sald Lettie spider?" not down comb the hall to mother listened, try-| hurried rose Over to above the the she the door us waiting boxes, a der the »C chin when old than would Oe act ‘ ae Briektop bre per- are you aes jie old i. git a eee) rve ~_-_~ D> him to tell his ee out with pain|top's face went me for a ee aa help , afraid "I'd to to be avenge help very whip him," | on his happy if "ri justed, that poor old) "Now, feet again, behtsse he said, calr sir, you a his at it, young kids me, attic of store-|to pounding and pitiable piles her | POL eeuere, promise, and ifraid And I fer | * ane rer, his on is his Hriektop the blow, laid him la open what, tel to yr moment, pack rights a young athlete among a hundred boys that littl as how closet old an took And they she of de- hi Lp pe ned the store- candlesticks hour later guests gre: again they : When were did all the assembled pleasure girls always. would In telling n is # or Ane wapaper a Inless | within sound laughingly little thinking, suffered a friends am of laughed however, that Flossie terrible ordeal-and on which made it mueh The Soldier Bold he But have man the is - very, th' tried blade very of bold; steel hath neeér side beer cold substance > heart like for a ; cat or ; Ww he n | Whe is a a noss stream of n bridge a. water like a | Py i Of The "Mean down the the enemy |To him Proiloves \nd thothe he feels battle's ainve din, tramp, tramp, fect no fear rear the is Wear : drum‘s tramp of beat, beat, comrades' ' aia? young | into his face with the snow ‘set "Go -away, ‘~~' you etlow "This may coulc me coward you out, clear "Now, , P@C*- Mean | but made and j dently = up.' kiddies," is no DP need ean sabia g00d and Hank" looked ey. ed ha turned ja mane. if you." his attention alone-honest "Never hit couldn't : us," a An "He an a ven, they Hymen, hatches, told that made in heave : eaven the subject, and paper he wrote teltfel takths are hea- all say, who in the at your neck 4 of the sisters with Vusn't him give it 1 great, ‘ in? The ; ee Brown--Say, what kind f decl 1 | chute is that e declared over = ther« ‘ind 7of chance pit the fatte r 7 aoe Where mean thing . , { don't think of sters tormenting | knows him any s he'll old 7 re ‘ though gn, ugly, make pe mn ple ric ; orE I fancy he'll in Fatherather--All the town. a mal do sorts of rumors are about you, ‘Sophie true that there is something m ne tice | YOu. and Lieutenant Pa _ Sophie-Yes ek : your pas Bs ; h - Y ou t ¥O ‘ M tween ‘us ist Pit ber Gi tine" inet, eevee. ‘And to} big,| won| _ for t tanete ade ibe an auto; Satins rooement Wie . citize strength of are longing snow, ‘ rey | collar to| da ‘ So' You to cool are enoug his brave apie kiy little anow a ao tamper al - for girlies," * me one uncertainty You -_ = acne to at ee sald pa . th Pi € j oft house t'othe: . ucifer matches." that/toast,yivike Dis +2 the ‘face-he ran give|no #0; Apartment-house Janitor-That so the only way we could mall chute, Sporth. That's the to his| him a parting stroke was from the | Vater shaft!-Puck. an ae Injan." more in the "Promise what 1 asked you to or ah thoss : Palkia elie ee You," answered the be tempted to give your face an-| tic mat 6. be here laughed Let-j o¢ gasoline "ifigives reminder and' my made mischief Sometimes deals with that side of the : hide!And-then they are I do to enemy it". Pp t give us Yet 7 Irish Wit. having been following: "Though matches round, hel anki Irishman marriages were some doubts on ing pencil and no sign of fighting. He ev1not want'to incur any more smile. commanded | back." for you."| "We you. | laughed} Bettle. place ! the may read-}other palm, : ' swim- outlook 5 man's the MS like on all her birthday, too, worse, of cours: FM you sturdy of own age. he his ‘dodged new pleading saying: | rear. : antagonist, Promise me you'll never torment nor/| make again. get with SPOR as swordeavesheathed £0 -nehels He wears a at his me quite verte "Mean Hank" beg-|" rick's disfavor. ged for erey "Oh, I'm freezing," "What did you kiddies he aaah showing the cowardly side ,for?" asked Bricktop, unable the live mamma stairs in the do not want to rep quite sure mamma's |} my. voice she added, eried, Oh, Wh, the | man's on In winter, ind What AG TPthhliecbisele tana hiee jand still is read (red) all over? F warne hold getting her those half I'd never make | also, thought may be} had his missing erows' ob-|1 she mother's CONUNDRU ceeteneeeeed He Naw) ee = loosening shoulders see But | happy get out-of-h-e-r-e!l" child,' soothed mamma? ‘Most who | for | alone, to of | Flossie looking mamma!" into Bricktop. shore.| anyways. sol- had not attended the years for nothing. He active tind Bricktop. to assists Reine te red promise the a that as|bully's " re "nN fat. ©" But: thus ruffian's neck and Half-smothered Bettle, B ricktop lent ca Pat . ae rt ak my-|Bricktop, nh ite cre ise have have of his nature. ; throwing and and that-which. recognized' her | They got me into prison, so pieading voice,| and on my birthday, too.' din ffunks most mamma, springing for] not debris she hurriedly clambered and} of her late imprisonment even going ibout her weeping and reached the closet, which she opened. | into detail There, with tears streaming down her, wailing and pounding with her shoe face, a shoe in one hand, rh ilttle |) on the door. "But it's an experience moment he screwed his ugly} Why is a dentist hideously and grunted out iming in a river? ecodgers is plaining { keep I'll who was anointed ee quesasks never that it is What , yet require mgny an ers? A doorbell the source of the noises, | scended the more vociferous and dis-| to be locked and arms, "I was lis- | you h-e-a-r. the hands of a young chap business and no fooling, well, the Gongs st crowned and a . | white, Re -- un couldn't f-I-g-h-t."| "It would be--be! cried in- be ‘to not Once inside little girlie's the great do Yep, I care for snowballin' ana| eae §nags. I promise to let the ol i | Ways = 2 ant st, % France. own whieh house.| you mean. fellow, take<some of the| As the great, overgrown figure made ‘ medicine vou saan lon ‘ . tracks down the side street in the » you were giving so freely to} : that poor old ‘man Take that, an suburbs of tow am Bettie and Lettle let that, and t-h-a-t!" An Hth every | oe him two pretty hard snowword they ana a Nanda ofthe Pe 18, iv hitting him square in the -~ <a Mur- | Spoke will better "Ow, latter's | fet. snowtheyintodid the of as ing handfuls fate, exclaiming so: "Now, | P¥Ul!y | es: ! was The cry "Help, help, help!""|room, "But, she added, with a happlainly from above Vondering | py litthe laugh, "my room is pretty strange a happening, Flossie's| enough as it is, and never do I want The sounds certainly issued from | I'd n-e-y-e-r upper floor, possibly from the at-) "My sweet an. so suddenly that Bric top | was quite astonished, the Twins wer | beside him and his fallen foe ttifews ' "1 - of ‘ "ceremony No} tender! "How came you in here? was | locked up, too she ked own Ther with het hoe unbuttoned only | on her foot, Flossie went down to her own room to dress for the party, ex- Hank's" fist he threw up his own right arm vigorously, catching his assailant eaters and throwing e gro € . Before "Mean Hank" - could rise from the deep snow, into which he had fallen, Bricktop was upon him, Pinning him down. He could not re; sist the sqmetation to slap the contemptible fellow's face; it looked so Sraealy wicked fer ugly beneath his| ; : y 4 Marguerite What ee gaze. v that tinct came at so mother) on the the good ing to locate | they became she good room Flossie's mamma brush and went kindness and hurried | was in his burden would al- | meant ‘twist standing beneath would pnt leg, ° do yez think before arrive. was But w 7 it could it mean? was there-Bridget, the cook, Kite re n and Flossie in her dressing. And she was the person in the house | when a queer noise fell upon her ears, | Flossie, It was faint-a human voice mingled | ject s with a strange pounding coming from ‘Oh, She would remove aj|ten. the heel beat as aca ine way for fast and flexible moment L ee . little bird your with did | Was | yez a on t6-His full whic etn jj | mentioning Riddles. the between he hay heen ven ed,) Septembe 1299 see enough. | was too quick for him, and Nad thrown up obleged fer the question," said/and put one hand over his eyes, as if|then became white with anger. Turn-| urphy, who always' followed they were hurt, ling to the old man, who was now; wife's example. Begorra,' exclaimed to a minute make|some COvlliake & leg, if it plaze, plaze, soir,';-why. It: would be awful, ‘ you kno et | packshe on his back= & plague an old= person again and never! ; tnow." again, and did t replied ie little £ h ‘ « mot) bully boys your unequal in size and Then Pat a i ir 00 ‘Mr Murpt B Bettie, NaeherRe blood Bt od ae Srgeted Hank. This enstrength I let you up.' addreste Murphy.| boiling hey with rage as|Taged the latter, Mean "£1 probefore as ‘ ‘ et ¢ ; ; . and with an oath}: mis "ve , "What's yer White choice iv the bird? Will|she beheld rightMeanin Hank a hard|he Bricktop across the Brickface || agreed "Mean Hank." wriggling beye have the meat snowball the facethrow of the old-| with slapped his great, coarse palm. neath Bricktop's weight. "I'l let you} "Oril her toilet, feeling sure that If Flossie} wanted her assistance in dressing she| would come to her. | She had just begun to comb her hair | "Oh,)/ must hour gin and|not Would little an idea. dreadful, attention neeessary 3 enc, hev, if Go of}son lab oot e spt, sae Vern on Revert ; | sonny- -boy,'' 7 he sneered, mile. "Well, "where = yez it LYTy LY politely next meet the iiengone d like the bully that he was. ay, I want no fuss with you,' said sali turned to Would Would for see fallen | break ' leg, of the library to call Flossie.| her to see how dainty the Not finding Flossie there) of the bully. "I don't approve of quar-|they're beneath more. | reling and fighting-such conduct is| le: or me up take 9 ouldn't gave a dinner to His wife had pre- will the Flossie out? arrive " sen Sire Stay | self. Only a» coward 1 ack',' 1en he we , ha street like a flash. Tene, foie aoe aa sree pared ono chicken which Pat proceeded to carve to serve his guests Turning to the lady seated nearest he asked get you pulling © wa When her man went away that little balloon : On that far agone day. Se 1 ‘at ae : rish . "Ww imprisonment. guests are ie did at you "is 'to I acta "There'swho nothing too mean for| | "Say, sir, you've would-torment an ‘the( laugh know man's Mean hastily:iL that} the that es direction ay isn't 1g ane 80 you may hear The earth's people say, "The moon is quite dead." But how many know pray, "Orn of|no Bricktop, let's| 1 him the all The| Laugh! The very idea," were The] low," Mean Hank turned on Brick-|after a away}Twins' ejaculations to this, "W hy,|/top with oaths and abuse. "Tl fix|face up ts lsarranging ere there's ; air gs Murphyn vited attie where no one would ever|some of her being and locked in the| tract | Pat O'Hooligan some of his friends. terrible qu "Oh, oh?" died away faintly inside thick-walled closet that terrifying in its darkness. should ; heart living rooms, After a was in readiness for voice great most | poor presence the] her| tenth birthday pass in this terrible| dark place without food or water,| when downstairs were all sorts. of! ee awaiting the hour of the ban- clothing cause, retaliate | me. pursued worth Mdward T of Englans but never in ummet To quote from a record of that time: its roots upward"? "On Tuesday, the day of Our Lady An ke si cainerensetreeinltn entreaties eons - and| the her little body against the door, it did} not shake it in the least. Then she] began to call out as Joudly as she] could, but her weak and frightened do like | L wou Well who "mow hatiin > the |Steain Hank r her uneasy rooms for in distress, = to held its carrier under ite |apart. cried Bettie, excitec that' "eeioa an Brice as wate for nothing ete to man sd ied pursu Hank in |;}aLette. boy old ee = y = whith hat t tant 2? Sob be <e ak ' his pack powerless tormentor, | pointing ¢ become living Then, = rust fallen close, dark, cold closet whose ‘thick| of its purpose. door and walls would not allow herlshoe and with ene vey... Of self protection. peor sé old man was trying to get { awful That would ae Bricktop away as | " poor woman search the other missing Flossie. mamma would telephone for her papa! She went to to come home, telling him that their! She wanted little girl was missing from the house. | table looked, of Lon: tint aie Ww shea a We ack, Was harm. rears Bea Lh oe In nee emniy | they seen| had ‘Murder,' and cried being]|run like don't we as promise, by this ruffian,|the molested are 5 not you é who picks for his victim an old man|late at sehool," said Briektop, holding}a fight going on You are all right that is helpless or a boy much his in-|the burly form down with all his/all right."". And together they ran on! ferior in size and strength." strength. to schoo As the old clothes man thanked ‘Mean Hank" doubtless saw that he | par en nanan en . 4 feeble voice to reach those on the first; as she could on the door, ¢ rying out eae floor. She knew her mother would) all the while, "Help, help, help?' ; one call her, ‘and receiving no response Meanwhile in the dining room Flos. | in the would go to her room to look for her | ste's mamma was so busy with the|room Not finding her litthe daughter the} banquet table that she did not miss} other ee and fact a uch: Bricktop and the Twins Teach "Mean Hank" a Lesson. - Helm bovis Bricktop pr : Edward Lancas- thelr way to school one morning when) give him a few snowballs that will ¢ | they saw a Sight that Incensed them|take his attention from the old man.''| greatly. "ue great, overgrown fellow, "You kiddies hold my books and I'll] comin ¥ known as ‘Mean Hank," | do. what I can alone," said Bricktop.| | was ame alin gy an old "seeond-hand If I get done up it will be in a good ; open as both of Duke DODOODOOOOOODOOOOOOOOc* A. * 4 | Marguerite There will their life blood ae Quite near you'll find the leade "Of that day' s victorious foe. L with now in the dream . : Flossie. ambush; ever-ever what little treacherous Flossie sat on the box and wept, | she supposed she had gone to her own|}mamma_ wept from fear and anxiety, over her! room to dress, for it wanted but halt) room stiff Flossie stood into ward-had which face, Then which she had lifted-and which she had left in a raised position, it being| too her ; = ‘e : Flossie was was obliged to carefully lest ery, follow | ing their gilt bands and red flowers.) But some soap and water would make] ) them as beautiful as new again. Flos-| | sie climbed on a box to reach her| prizes, when the heavy door swung| ' tears sircaming down later, the te ersa rhe | cara kings seems to for on the &th of The with a rfontorkit lof his sister Blanche | There, fs Ae obit sem "diplomacy" was the aes of P hi lip le Bel, brother to Marguerite ina! iB lan he and king of Franée, who haa] | other and higher plans for the disposal ; ; It Edward much however in ubstituting | Gulged thi resented. bitterly iter, it wished have her | 4ght for Marguerite, plain ehila; lof the |} gloriously besauteous: sister, Blanche To quote iwho vasodin the full bloom of hei Marguerite queen-consort of Edqueei first is the England, I of ward or iece 3 | nanhood young | y 4 : ; ‘ vid s = A educates Tad sof till many years brother, his jand / : { thoroughly omatic-TAwreuver-anickiited a og a nant: es ata | day Edw a0 we Trintt "i of echureh the into came land, after aforesal the | Canterbury, and espoused the of England, of queen Meregrett, years." xx ace: highee it he oe ait l he utmse R ] i cea h kt La ine¢ SS thin 7 Mine waver'days era the TR Be fhe pede ne ease eeit. awe ate ne ere Soar ip w Blanche of that where reaty | ee v e : ; be :to Pombd Tdto betrothal her of At the time 1 wal the f "ines Bi Mar u e was just j entering = ee elfth ye ar, but th rw arrangement became He ward's ‘cotmars. by which wha rit sheGobkietanten ro wa . . tel ; of ieher " little om ie a rhnot ke nae reaching but neck, one - after-"4 | peril harmoo ‘«for ln do any could door heavy d in safety , closet th jie r room, of floor the on. lying noon but} sight, from contents the shu iron little-white of the, In front just which] hook rusty the lifted uld | Flossie small guest her which: bed on outside and pulled the jt from a/secured were' there Then. their wraps. put | |it open which candlesticks old pair of huge her papa had picked up at a curlo|! Ah! There on a high shelf stood the shop, but which her-mamma alway longed-for and much-admired candle- | ‘ ~ ‘clerater ‘ sth ‘ ood cove ng of dust3 laughed at and had relegated to the } sticks, a4 ly vering hid -| a of her and proceeded the following pre en the and_ of |} Canterbury; king Sinton ilesinie. eh tee hieae ett Fen Sci acani-iferecbrte saa Sah ose tel = nel tramnelanch hein Son they eeriiaerien: a! Ghat eae eine ne oo ee ee remembered | lossie them, for there were many things S| in built was which closet great na gray rreat storeroom the of ends darth was;the said cat longer hold it hither went Flossie, climbing over storeraxc the In seen mamma which fur rug "shedding" and unfit to was etfs dhe | rer in general in things up She arrived of King But he hopedsunils to banish his heavy sor-| i haniten atin "4 fre the river anean ha Vid ane aha rieiey Si tladae remot Fie' $a eB ss ; ‘benntifal ha touches;hunt She had' that extra some: ai : he re that here /turning birthday one's like oceasion special felt Flossieneeded were -the death Hardi, le es : twenty-s resevyenth year c T Met dame Philip, at Dover, the in , nativity, ity king, of the the daughter a was Wi young princes being a8 Virtuous Marguerite of France is the first queen the enjoy to not Conquest the isince and cultured refined he was Whil M uerit wa stil) very honor of a coronation; but the royal young her elder ister Princess exchequer was In ich distress from of cost: the that: warfare beauty | ~ paserite ya, reigning the ume b Blanehs | Hdward oeisuros ei x tintint praisé her heard having" f-England. handin} her sought ufar, from sung At this thmé Necwas aceriofoininbter ai 8h eesti Tinta havide wir nirlo keen Ouetn=wlennora airis he Inved at uh : attractive more bits of furniture roam the store not say a word decided but it, the little guests to lay her room orphaned. by Phillip father, Graham. queen- England, Ines f oO Francs "ed, ter SN pbeste erp el Wwas''a she retained andy damaer | minded traits of character droite | fine ; regu-; 4 part mamma Vhile the parlors and decided to make . the a re Mary second France, of Kd adware }-I of f consort England. of Queens ity Py usual 4==<?° PAGE CHILDREN'S ==4 OUR 0 LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1907. SALT REPUBLICAN, INTER-MOUNTAIN THE ve e.« rt ‘hat he And lead will his ‘yet: men t are in be-} be-| and and be be Snails Hard to Kill The : gay, say and a. general. general. to victory : =A Annie eee terrane TE iran vitality. of the sn- » James. . : Ine that Sen eee in 9. "met tot or Te 7 ms four years came to cheerful | ani smells | aie s never know whet be late for dinner ergencs regency . VAs between ee ife I you ain‘t|"TIs safe for: us to think1x elea eo our soldier brave no af - bs hospital."-| © water Hon ae M ' ‘ ah eae bby ane ‘i immersed imens in reviv aparentlyrangerhad arte been | years, aaa in the warm ecollec. eee acer ne |