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Show MARY GVIAHAJA 'BONNER. coftnowT it viiiiim Hirvttu urnow LIBRARY FROLIC It was lato In the evening und tho library was closed nt last. All day rw long peoplo had J&SWiW I como and gone. &&S&-r Tney naiJ brought SSJcT (& books with them pja5rJi nnd they had Vtfiyv'U taken books nwny IwwV wl,h them wok vsi "' n vcry busy itekr f J &5 day it had been 3SL f 'n tno library. rScjfi Many bnd read j ifiijSi&Pl books In the II- ' OnvMrtilF brary, too, whllo 23rfe$is tnoy wcr0 tnoro jjfcJaffKjjgJ and others hud --,,-A"gTS looked nt ranga- gsjnjira Uut nt last, ns I "Would Anyone dark In the library Ever Think?" nnd evcryono hud gone home. Everyone everyone except Billy Brownie. Ho lind como to visit tho library. Ho hnd hidden behind n huge dictionary, when they had been closing tho library and looking around to sco thut nil the readers had gone. IIo had always somehow wunted to visit n library after nil tho people had gone. Ilo hnd paid mnny visits and met many friends nnd henrd so muny secrets, but ho had nover been in a library after It wns dark, und when no ono wns in It Yes, ho hnd puld many visits. IIo hnd wutrJied so many Interesting sights. He hud tnlked with old Mother' Nn-ture. Nn-ture. Oh, Billlo Brownie had had many n marvelous tlmo. But now ho wns In tho library, and this wns ono of tho things ho hnd always al-ways longed to do. IIo wnntcd to be among tho books nil by himself. IIo wns not thcro very long when thero enmo a huge volumo down from tho shelves, and ho noticed that It had spread out Its covers and was walking awkwardly about. "Ho, ha, ha," said tho big book, "would nnyone ever think to see mo now thnt I was Volume Pour of un Important English History set? "Gracious, but they'd bo surprised." "I'm surprised," said Billlo Brownlo. "Yes, of course you would be," nld Volumo Four, "and so would anyone, but wo nover give anyono tho chnnco to bo surprised. It would hurt our reputations, you know children in school would not respect us the snmo way at lesson time If they were thinking think-ing of how we'd been hopping and skipping skip-ping and Jumping the evening before. "And so wo will never havo n frolic unless we nro alone absolutely alone. You'ro tho ono exception. "Sometimes they've tried to sco us nftcr dark tho people. Yes, they've stayed and hidden and haven't been discovered when tho library was being closed. "But wo alwnys know, und we will never havo a frolic as long ns thero Is a single humnn being nbout, nnd wo ulwnys, nlways know. They can never fool us: But I lulk too much. It's like a history book to tell a lot of facts, you know. I must forget my Job now nnd play, for we ull need u plnytlmc." So the books got down from their shelves nnd began to frolic. Tho great big wlso books dunccd und " crenkod nnd n Jumped n n'd Jj ft, chased ench other i!5jV nbout, und Billlo iMSli Brownlo oven saw fi vOitv!?A n book of fulnous fiJjJ speeches plnylng ife&l. lenp-frog with n fy book of vcry scrl- M&$f ous poetry. KiSA And such a Kt&? nolso ns thero v, wns. Tho hlstor- KMSrir" lea wcro cspe- 'intyr'!sS dally noisy and 2?fiSttjj6s5g t h o dictionaries --&(rjj, jlS scampered and ' played and actually actu-ally giggled. Playlno Leap-Froa. "Wo hnvo to kno,' It till the rest of the time," they sold. "It Is fun once In awhllo not to hnvo nnyono looking you up to nsk j oil this or that, nnd to knowthnt you've got to tell them, und must know So the shelves were without the books, and nil ovj-r the floor the books hnd their gumas. And when morning enme und Blllle Brownie xvus about to leave ho saw them getting biwk Into their shelf places nnd sending very straight nnd saying: "We must look solemn und wlno now. We must look solemn und wlso." Hut Billlo Brownie hnd hnd the Joy I M'dng them during their playtime' MBMsJsstfflfe"Mfyg |