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Show ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS GY OLIVE ROBERTS CARTON I - , i t, i IFF1 t DM S Fi n Lift H Lunch was partly on the table henj Floppy Field Mouse ramt creeping III from school. Mr. Munchle Mouse was washing up mi the sink and his wife wan jiisi "lifting" the soup. Floppy' was dreadfully hungry, because, be-cause, as you know, he hadn't had a rhanee to anoak over to th" corn Patch for all he hud slipped SWJ under the! school master's ery nose. He and' of his good eye, noticed this unenslU 'ht he was after w;i double-barreled Sympathy He COUlO always count on his mother. But something had missed fire somewhere with his daddy. "Hmf, hmf. limf!" he snivelled. "That old Mr Scribble-Scratch Is so bo mean' How can 1 do problems about earthworms " Ana mosquito bites? And everything." "Don't worry darlln','' soothed Mrs. Mouse " The old lessons don't matter Floppy begun lo w IioIiiijkt, t-o rlmt hi iweUetJ -e vlth hK hand-Uer hand-Uer lllef. Muffs .Mole had been fighting like sillies, ard ihe time hu. flown. The noon bell had driven Uieiu hune Floppy began to whirnper. tun niii: t.x-so he could think of for covering t.;. a q1)i ri t vv ii h iib hundU. r-)' I "PpQT deur'" Mr Mousn net down a piati Pf SOUB QUlokf) ad took him on her Knee "What's 'he matter with Mother 'a h iii-Ji i e- ' Mr MOUfl flrt'ii hlM fce and pewa on ti i luwol and didn't i n lv.,r.l KIPP- louklng PUt 'f the tail N bat did the n-'hoolmasler say? Now perhaps floppy duin'i do it just on purpose (I can't auy for sure), but Ju9t at Ui.it minute h'-- l t the coiner of the hanky slip down fr"ni his eye the one Muffy Mole had punched and Mrs. Mouse saw it "Munch." she shrieked, 'come right ' here and look at pur son! That awful i schoolmaster ha V'ou march oyer tpere right away ana tend to him." But Munchl Just sat down e.ilmly land began to eat hia soup. |