Show badji dadd us s mini tale ale bof MARY GRAHAM f amm CITY adventures i now whenever he never dorothy or douglas had find gone shopping they had always walked into tile the shop through a door which w was as on the street sometimes they ibey had bad gone upstairs in the shop but they had ahn always nys gone into it in the regular way they had thought but this vine liine uncle john jofin was taking them shop shopping plug below the lie level of the street for the shops were la in the hudson terminal building and the street was above them I 1 how bow strange it did seem they had blittle a little money to spend and they decided how much to spend on candy and how much to save for a soda they were picking out their candy as they saw people rustling rushing in giving orders for all sorts of things under tile the sun that could be bought and then hurrying out saying well be back for our bundles tonight ClIl cant lt they stop to get them now dorothy asked they time I 1 suppose said douglas 1 I really dont vonder vender they time there Is so much to see in the wonder city that sometimes I 1 feel like rushing just that way myself but then we see the wonders said dorothy before dorothy tind had finished speaking several people had shrieked and someone had grabbed them putting pulling them back what had happened they imagine I 1 and everyone seemed so I 1 just then into the underground store came a horse with a wild b bound and rush for a rather warm mid midwinter winter day had come and the doors had been swung wide open the people hurried 8 fishes of all AH sorts and and sizes scurried back bach of the counter A runaway horse in the shops below tile the street levell level 1 how could he have managed it at fast bast conr lie CHI ciui aoe hurse horse no one was hurt and the peopled peo ere quiet again that doe ant seem so queer to me said dorothy Dorot liy he probably wanted to give an order for hay and then rush out saying lie he would be back again in the evening to get it before he left for new jersey well laughed douglas that Is quite an idea of yours but I 1 believe tiny hay Is about the only they dont sell in these shops however I 1 don dont t think its queer that the horse wanted to see what was lon down here 11 yes res agreed dorothy weve learned in our reader that the horse Is the most intelligent animal and I 1 suppose he wanted to see a wonder too and while uncle john laughed too and joined in their talk he felt hla his heart beating a little faster than usual for he be felt it had been a very narrow escape ile he hoped that none of the fi fishes aies would do anything wild for the were to be visited that day yes lie he told douglas and dorothy at last were to really pay a visit at the aquarium it has been put oft off qu quite 1 te long enough so they all went down to tile the aquarium which was at their beloved battery and which looked out upon new york harbor it was the large jurge building they had passed so many times on their way to boats to take harbor trips inside were tanks filled with water in which were fishes of all sorts and azos do aou ou see auld one of the keepers to dourlas douglas that the fishes are gl ing a circus 3 today they put up billboards as real circus people ilo do but they lime been splashing enough for the past few days for anyone on e to tell that something wonderful I 1 I 1 was wai soon funn f to happen and today they are ready douglas and dorothy went to the tunk hink where abere there was a large mother seal site she was tile ringleader just like the man in the tall fail black hat who stands in ili the center ring at the circus bud and cracks a big whip instead of cracking a whip mother ne seal I 1 was splashing q Sp plash lush splash splash up you go my beauties the smaller senis seals in life lie next tunk tank were on oil a board As the mother spat real gaie gac her last signal to splash off they dove into the tank and they aliey swam up tip again the mother soul was splashing in a way which meant A splendid lick my chil children drea you lire are tin tile skidders of tile the age |