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Show Puss in Boots Jr. By David Cory. 'peter, Pler. pumpkin-eater, , Kad a wife and couldn't keep her': Ho put her in a pumpkin shell. 4.nd there he kept her very well." KIS h' the sons a little bird fi sang as Puss and Tom. watched the funny lit tic -man nollow out the b g round pumpkin. 'ih. that's the reason ha didn't ivaht tp 6l!.ih? sli?n;,v cried Tom " Thumb. ""Wise old Peter. PumpMn-cltr,- '. "J wonder where his wife is?" aa'd- Pu3 Junior. And tht-n. all of a suddon.. pretty Ilttlo" woman . came to the gate in the 'old sn:kc fSnce. . . T.lclrl Peter:" site ecled. "when ,vil 5?ou; havp; my .lOvqiy ,-pumpk.n fcousrosaj' for .iuf . lv - "nJut.-beJ, Impatlont .711 dear." "replied Peter. " "It lakes time to build a houne. whether of wood or pumpkin shrll. . 1 am making as much haste as I dare. If I hurry too fast 1 may split the shell, and then the rain w.l come "' r "Perhnosf we can help." suggt:i e 1 Tom Thumb. . "1 have a tiny sword and jus Junior Iwjj a largor ono. Would you . earu to have us show . our skill?" Dut Ieler only grunted.. So Mrs. Poler snid with a laugh. "Come over and tell me a story; I'd rather hear a pretty. story than have you holp Peter. lie mig'ht as woll be busy at houSe building as at anything else. Besides, a pumpkin house wlfl be very pretty." "I think so nirysolf." said Puss Junior, sitting down besfdo Mrs. Poler. "That pumpkin certainly Is marvelounly big. It Is as big as a house. If Peter had a pickax he could hollow it out much faster." "A very good suggestion'," cried Mrs. Peter. "Peter! Peter!" she cried. "Run back to the farm and get your pickax. It will take "you only a very Ilttlo while it you have , the proper tool to work with.'' Peter seemed lo think this a very ' good suggestion, and at once set off for the 'farm house to get the pickax, pick-ax, and while he was gono Tom , Thumb crawled Into the hole which had already been made in the huge pumpkin. And when he came out lie said: "Pumpkin Hall Is a very nice sort of a house, but I should like ft potter pot-ter if the pumpkin had been baked Into a plo. Then ono could always have pumpkin pie when he felt hungry." But just then Peter returned, re-turned, so Tom Thumb ran over to Puss Junior, who -was Just about to commence telling ono of his adventures adven-tures to pretty little Mrs. Poler. And In the next story you shall hear what little Puss Junior related. CcpjTlcht. 1010. UaM Cory. To lie Continued. |