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Show Daddy's U$dlkiii Fairy Tale fyjV&f GRAHAM BONNER COLD TAG "Hello." said Carrie Cough, "left II Join In and dIsj a tae." "L fa." said Susy Sneeze. "Let's." said Clarence Sore Throat. "Let's," aald Harry Headache. "I'll be It." said Susy Sneeze. "Where will we play this time?" s s k e d Clarence Sure Throat. "Oh. let's play st Melly's. She is so proud, because she seldom baa a cold that we'll "You Can't Catch Punlsh, ncr for ner Ms," Said Car. P1- rleCouQh. Now know. the members of the Cold family are very mean. They have no consideration of a person's feelings, none whatever. They don't care how they make a person feel. They have no sympathy and no kindliness. kind-liness. In fact they are as hateful as hateful hate-ful can be. Susy Sneeze bad a first cousin named Susy Sneeze, and also a twin sister by that name, and the cousin had a twin sister by the same name; which was curious, but a fact. There were many In the family, and they didn't bother to have a great many different names. They were too busy doing mean things to think np a variety of names. "Yes, let's play at Melly's," said Susy Sneeze. "All right," said Clarence Sore Throat. "All right," said Carrie Cough. "All right," said Harry Headache. "And you're It," said Carrie Cough to Susy Sneeze. "I'm It," she answered. They began to pluy so quickly that Melly was taken by surprise. At first she couldn't believe It was true. She couldn't think bow she could have caught cold. She hadn't had her feet wet lately, nor had she worn too few clothes, nor had she gone out when It had ruined without rubbers. She couldn't think at all how she had caught the cold. For she realized In no time at all that she was In for a regulur cold. Even though It had been hard to believe be-lieve at first It was certainly so. "You can't catch me. you can't catch me," snld Harry Headache. "Tag, you're It!" shouted Susy Sneeze. Now Melly had been sneezing nnd sneezing and sneezing and sneezing. It had seemed as though she couldn't stop sneezing. And how her head did ache. She had sneezed bo hard and the cold In her head was so bad tbat her head ached dreadfully. "You can't catch me, you can't catch me," cried Clarence Sore Throat to Harry Headache. "Tag! You're It!" shouted Harry Headache. , Oh, how sore Melly's throat did feel now. Never had she known a cold to dash along so rapidly as tills one. Usually it had not gone so fast. This was dreadful. Now her throat was so sore. She still sneezed some, her head still ached, but her throat was raw and sore and hurt to swallow. "You can't catch me, you can't catch me," said Carrie Cough to Clarence Sore Throat. "Tag! You're It!" shouted Clarence Sore Throat. Melly began to cough, And It hurt to cough, too. Her head still ached, she still sneezed some, her throat was very sore and she coughed. Not one of them would give np playing. play-ing. Sometimes her throat seemed worse than her head, sometimes It was the other way ,around. But never had she had a cold gallop through her as this one had. Nor did any part of the cold completely leave her. It all remained with her. It was ull because be-cause they were playing the game of Cold Tag "at Melly's" as they said. Tou know how you will piny tag a very nice, Jolly game. But they were playing Cold Tag which is far from being a nice game. Instead of playing It out In the open Hef Head sti they choose a per- Ached, son's throat and head In which to play It and that Is not kind. Nor is It showing the least bit of consideration. It Is, you see, all because every member of the Cold family Is entirely lacking In sympathy. That Is the whole trouble. |