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Show Puss ill Boots Jr. . By David Cory. "Tweedlc-dum and Tweedle-deo Hosolved to have a battle. For Twoedlc-dum said Twoedle- dee 1 Had spoiled his nice new rattle:" HAT are those children vTW fighting over. I wonder," said Puss Junior lo Ton. Thumb. "We'll soon find out," replied re-plied Tom. hurrying over to whoro two small boys were fist-cuffing oach other In great shark-, "Come, come' cried Puss, 'what means ail thlfT? Vlsy sli'oul'd two', small boys fijfht? Toll me.' what's" It ail about?" 'Tweedlc-dum broke my rattle,' cr'cd one of them. "I did not." replied Tvcedle-dev. ' "I .only rattled It a Uuio too bard." And then they, sot to work again, J pummeling each other ,with mjighi aixd main.. -, . ,k- ... "Just 'tbgn flew Ijy -a. monstrous crow As big as a tar, barrel. Which frightened, both .tins horpes ' oo ' '-y : & Tbcybolh forgot tJe!r'iu'arrol." " '.Vf the sight of tlioimonlrons croxt' little Tom Thumb crept In?o P-usa Junior's pocket. Puss had already unsheathed his sword, ready to defend, de-fend, himself, ill case the monstrous .bird should offer battle. But ho didn't. H!q merely perched himself on a nearby tree tfaiu looked,, at our small hero. "Put away your sword. .crlet tho erow. . "I wouldn't hurt the scarc-crow scarc-crow ln youdsr co'rnfloJd! Haw. haw. caw caw," and viio monstrous. crow gave a mo nstrohs.gr in, Lndccd. ho opened his beak so wide that Puss almost saw his fall at the other end' Twcedle-dunv and Twecdle-lee i'lobd by with mouths and eyes wide open. They wore too surprised lb say, a word. And perhaps so mo of my little readers wpnld have been so, ,too. had they seen this monstrous mon-strous crOA. Ill's wings were so long lhat, they reached clear through to the other side of the big apple tree, and his tall feathers reached down to lie ground, and when he said. "Haw. haw, caw. Caw," all the leaves trembled and turned insldo outl . . But all ithis didn't . make Puss Junior the least, bit afraid. .No. Indeod! llo Juat stood perfectly still, With his trusty .&vord in his? good right jpaw,v ready for anything. any-thing. But nothing happened. The ..monstrous crow, after sitting still for a. short time, flapped his wings and tlcw away, and as he passed overhead, he cried out, In a hoarse voice: , . , ' "Though I be as black as iilglit. You should never take a fright, ThoUgh my wings 'are black, and long, ' I could never do you wrong. So good-by to you to-day, i 1 shall soon be far away. There are other crows, you know, Uglier than Mr. Crow!" Copyright, mil. "Darul Corr. To Uk Continued; The Canny Scot. "Kb." said Sandy to tho minister, "yon was a powerful decscourse on 'Thrift' yo preached the Sabbath!" MAh'm glad ye wcro a-ble to profit," said the mlnlstor. '"Profit". Why mon. I would have put my saxpancc Into the plate wl'out a -thought if it had not been for your providen-' providen-' tial words: They saved mc four-pence four-pence there and then!" t ' Did Not Answer Question. Advertiser: "What is the circulation circula-tion of your paper?" Business man', ager: 'Our presses have a capacltv for producing one hundred thousand ' perfect copies an hour yc,s. sir, one hundred thousand an hour, all out npd pasted and folded ye sir' And here, sir, 13 a detailed and 'absolutely 'abso-lutely perfect photograph ol one of the p-resaos. Look at it yourself " |