Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-25 | Page 5 | Adventures of the Twins

! ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS ) fJY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON' i - , " Nit b - Bl i " When everything was ready and It wns time for the Meadow Grove folks to start to thi picnic grounds under the willow tie beside Klly Pond. Mr. Scribble Scratch, the falryman schoolmaster, school-master, sent Nick around with Tug Turtle and his daddy to collect baskets, bas-kets, and Nancy went ahead to Bel tables and get everything ready so there would not he any time lost after they all got there There were to be Apartments, and all the other over-, head dwellings, he knocked at Mrs, Woodchuck's door, and Mrs. Bunny's Mrs Mink's and all the others who lived underground. Mr. Torty Turtle and his ifon, Tug. said they thought they'd start In the i sprees business, they were so loaded I down w ith bundles and baskets and 1 things. I When everything waa collected. Nick scampered on ahead ' to help Mrs. Scribble Scratch scut Xlck around with Tug Turtle and Ids tladd to collect baskets games and races and prizes, and everything every-thing to make the day as happy as possible. Nick climbed trees In u twinkling, with his magical Green Shoes, and got the boskets belonging to Mrs. Chick Chjcaree, Mrs. Owl, Mrs. Squirrel. Mrs Bill Blackbird twho hadn't packed to go south yet), Mrs. Thousand-Legger. and all Ihe others Tie was a wonder at il. He'd get a. basket, slid- down the tree, set It : on Tug's broad back, and go up after another. Alter he'd got all the baskets ! from Maple-Tree Plats, and Old-Oak Nancy, and left the turtles to take their dwn time, which was an unwise thing to do, because you know ho very unreliable turtles are. If I washed . send my marketing home for 1-o'clock 1-o'clock lunch. I'd enver depend upon la turtle, should you? But anyway. Nick went no ahead, because the titters had told him they had a sliding hoard which ihe pick- , nickers could use If they would put 'some slippery mud on' It. Nick knee where there wax a lot of perfectly lovely mud and off he skrdaddled to I get some.