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Show Idaddy3 evening mtmwzw riAKY ORAHAn DONNOt " 9Mt 4JTMO X THE OPERA GLASSES. "Hello, other end," said om end of the open gtasees, "Hollo, other "m!" answered Um end that had been spoken to, "I can ma k thlngl look so far. far ewiiy," Mild the end which had spoken firs! which vvo Wl ml) Tiny View. "i can make things look so rerji fM I'iir." sj, , ,,,(,.,, ,.M, which ,. will call Rig lew. "i can make things look to funny and snuill," sulil Tiny VlOW, "Hut I can nMke things look sn near ami ., large," aald Big Vlnw. "i i i k my part hotter," aald Tiny View, "it is more Interacting, not to be able to sot- thlnga so near. They look mora myaterloua at i dtatance." "I don't know that I agree with you," mi iii iiik View, "Whj not!" aakad Tiny View. "You would hardly expect mo to, would your asked Big View, "I don't kit why," said Tiny View. "Vim wouldn't want to be In my place, would you?" naked Big View, "h. no, certainly not," aald Tiny View. "Well, than ymi bare it." aald Big View . "Have wbatt" Baked Tiny View, "You like your way because it is your way and bocanae you art need to it," aald Big View, "and I like my way becauaa I am need to it. That's tin- way era an"." "I aee," said Tiny View. "What fun 1 do have at the theater or at the opera," said Big View, "I bare a good time, too," said Tiny View, "for children like to look through me and they like to say, "Oh, how funny fun-ny the ataga looks, ami the people look so small, and everything lookfl so far. far away.' It given thorn v quite different Idea of the ataga Bud the people acting." "Of course It does." said Hid View. "Well, I like the work 1 have to do. 1 like to make things seem near at hand, to make them siand out clear and plain." "Hut when things are far away. Isn't It wrong to make them look near?" r , "Children Like to Look." asked Tiny View, "Isn't that the least tut deceitful T" "Of course not," said Hlg View an RTH. "Oh. I didn't mean to annoy you." eald Tiny View, "I was only asking a question." "It is no mine deceitful than for you to make 'them see things far away." "I suppose that Is so," said Tiny View. "1 hadn't thought ahoul It that way before." "Vou hadn't looked Into the matter closely enough," laughed Big View. "Well," said Tiny View, "we're each rather clever in our own way. Vou can make thlnga near which aren't mid I can make things look far away which aren't so far off at all." "We're not clever." said lllg View. "Who is clever then, If we aren't?" asked Tiny View. "The one who made lis," said Hig View. "Well, the one who made us nii't have seen that we were going to do our work properly and were ilie nort of things he could employ," "TO he sure." agreed Big View. "That is what we do. and What we must b I way do our work properly." "We do have BUCh a good time," aald Tlnj View. That's why we should do our work well." said Hlg View. "We should show that we are grateful Weil alwayi be frlenda, won't waf" asked Tin) lew . "ill .(.ins,, ue will." said Big View, "I remember seeing a beautiful dance once," said Tin) View, "and a" the little tin.' creatines dancing wen-Mi wen-Mi lovely." "I remember that lovely dunce,'' aald Big View, "hut all ti natures I saw were quite, quite large." "Ha. ho," said Tiny View, "ue were looking in it from different enda, fur w e are different, aren't we?" ' "lo in- sure," wild Big View, "but we're both lucky, tor we're takoi, to gJhentera and operas and we see the tPgienl -in-iis and d, nicer and actors mid in -tresses and giM' folk great Ip-als s,P they i an look at thlnga in two must interesting wa,s with ilie Hid nt llicir own perfect 1 good cms! AlHI also by moving us tO fill Us Us just right. ' |