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Show t AI GfiiWA BONNE WTH6M H VIIUIH MWtfU UHKM r : I BILLIE'S FRIENDS nilllo Drownlo hnd gono to seo number of his friends. First of all nnd Pl(1 i vl 111 t0 "Is friend 1 hJA.i.. P nlrcdale dog, I SVtawW ono who lived Jwjsj n city house a I. afiok H t0 100,1 out )' AVJ window and i i U a 1 w,mt waa 8' 3 v$ jitrw nle(Ja,0 said, s (ZtS wna 80 much i 1 lc Pf cited this mo i i '71 dogs on the blc ! ryg"" wos uimost v a I 'tt- mi j badly hurt, j "Luckily ho vi "First of All." senred moro th i anything nnd ha t ly hurt at nil. But at first he cried that all the people looked out of th V windows nnd the dogs came and look J out too nnd barked with sympathy. "It was all because a man drivl j an automobile hnd been In such , hurry that he hnd not given tho 6 , who was almost hurt n good chance , get nwny, "Thnt's pot right bow-wow, tha t not right nt nil I barked." t "I'm going to get tho Breeze Bro i era to tnke around messages to poo 3 nnd nsk them to think of snvlng lh as well as of saving minutes," si 1 Blllle Brownie. "I'm going to nsk tho Breczo Bro ) era to tell them that tho lives oLn I mals mean so much to children nnd grown-ups nnd to nil who've mnde pi of them nnd that tho minutes whl thoy hurry past will mean but littlo them if anything. f "I'm going to nsk the Brcezo Bro J- era to tell them that a tiro will get 0 puncturo regardless of whether th r are In n hurry or not nnd thnt th I- thoy havo to stop, so won't thoy pleo tnko tlmo to properly wait until r dog gots out of their way nnd 1 thoughtful nnd conslderato If nn ni mal gets excited." "Oh, good I Bllllo Brownlo. Th will be flno. Do got tho Breczo Brol i era started on theso messages at onc( And Bllllo Brownlo did. no spo! to tho Breezo Brothers nt onco ai thoy stnrtcd right off. Thoso to who t they were jot giving tho messages sa - to ono another: "A breeze has blown up suddenly Well, nftor Blllle Brownlo had cnlh on his friend tho dog nnd hndspok t to tho Breczo Brothers he called ( 1 another dog who had done a mo wonderful thing. 'Ho wos a collie dog and he hnd be stolen and taken thirty miles aw ' from home. But ho ran nway, r through fho crowded city, found I ' way until ho reached a ferry be 1 across which he had been brought i 1 tor ho had been stolen. ' lie Jumped on tho ferry Just as ' was pulling out of the wharf and kni ' Just which ono to tnko, too, thou 1 thero were ferries going in other rectlons which would not have be the right ones. 1 Then when the ferry reached t other side ho was not far from lion 1 "Ilcally," said Bllllo Brownie, "y seem nlmost too wonderful to be re 5 To think of hav- ' Ing found your J c-j. v way through that w-- I great city and itfiW " then to havo 5l f r taken tho right L VJ ferry bontl" P f "S "It was because V'ftvJ'S I wonted so much A to get home," tho jx 'WS collie modestly ffi3?jL t B told Bllllo Brow- VSS? 9 nlo, but Bllllo 240 y Brownlo know 0 that tho collie ffl. B was very, very K II wonderful and fcl'Sr'"' that tho things fSftK y ho could do ul- y most were beyond "Almost Wond d belief. ful.M II And then Bllllo r, Brownlo went' to seo tho Cnt's-fi s flowers which were also called Peni h Everlasting. g "Not much of a nnmo for us," t o flowers told Bllllo Brownlo, "as so s wo'll bo brown Instead of white a woolly cs wo uro now. Sometlir s we're called dog-toes nnd sometlir f four-toes. j "Cows don't like to cat us as wo e too mealy but Insects simply love ' it Oh, we'ro very popular with Insei n In tho late spring. And we woi 0 rather bo popular with Insects th y with cows. Our tastes run to sm tilings as wo'ro not so very, big oi selves I" |