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Show i ipi Daddy's iiffiEkil!g Fairy Tale THANK-YOU'S COMPANION Tbank-You's companion used to go about with him a great deal. r- i He was a good- n a t u r e d crea-if crea-if ture, not particu- ' 'k larly remarkable, ijvpV and Dot particu-t;c;7 particu-t;c;7 larly clever, but ' fc?"' well -meaning r n j and pleasant and I I f nice. I J T li a n k - You's M companion was I n a m e d "Don't- i f ilenlior.-It." j ,H,:J-sf '. You l"'"hab'v ; yte?'?-"'' have often seen S&J-T?C3 j'ki them together. iS2&S5r Or, at least. I r 1 you have heard "Thank You." tliem wbon tlley have been holding hold-ing one of their conversations. Thank-Yon never speaks when the companion is along, too, without the companion adding his little name-speccli name-speccli to the talk. They do not let their speeches be said by the saaie person. Each shows that lie i;j n separate individual by each having a different person make his speech. For instance you will hear one person per-son say : "Thank you." And you will hear the other person per-son say: "Don't mention it." Well, when you hear these two speeches, made by two different people, peo-ple, yet who are speaking together, you will know that Xhank-You and Don't-Mention-It are around. Thank-You will sugtst to one person per-son that he use his name, and Don't-Mention-It will suggest to the other that he answer by using his name. Well, one day Thank-You and Don't-Mention-It were off having a little picnic together. They each talked in the funniest way you can imagine. Whenever Thank-You took a sandwich or a glass of ginger ale or a piece of cake he would say to the sandwich or the glass of ginger ale or the piece of cake : "Thank you." Whenever Don't-Mentlon-It took a I sandwich or a glass of ginger ale or a piece of cake, he would say to the sandwich or the glass of ginger ale or the piece of cake: "Don't-Mentioh-lt." They were so in tr.e habit of making mak-ing these speeches they Just talked that way to the focd they were eating. eat-ing. And instead of Don't-Mention-It thanking for wdiat he was eating he never thanked anything or anyone but Just said : ''Don't mention it." "Really," Don't-Mention-lt said after they had finished the picnic, "1 am a silly fellow and perhaps I'm not so polite after all. "When you say 'thank you' I saj 'don't mention it.' "But I say It after you have mentioned men-tioned it. I don't tell you ahead oi time not to thank or not to bother" about mentioning or speaking any thanks or appreciation. "I say it afterward. "I don't know that I'm very sensible sensi-ble or very polite." "Oh, yes," said Thank-You, "that's all right. It's right for me to thank and it's right for p you to say : 'Don't f mention it.' "For when you A V. say that, it means, ffl VSt " that you accept feCstX. 4 my thanks hut T that you consider p-- Y you should not A, accept too many ; A thanks and thut J it was a pleasure - ! to do for me. j i ) 1 1 "Oh, what you ( j I say is all right." j j I jj , j "Oh, verv well." It . J ll tion-It, of course I'm at least well- Don,t Mention t . meaning even if I'm not a brilliant fellow. You're so : much liner a looking gnome-chap I somehow." ! "I don't know that I would say ! that." said Thank-You, "but thank you. just the same." "Don't mention it,'' said Don't Mention-II. |