Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-15 | Page 5 | For Little Folks

I j 1 FOR LITTLE POLKS aiJ O JA .-ii WOODPECKER IN TROUBLE, fvfi Will Woodpecker looked as sheepish r.s Mary's lamb, when hia wife took I- all his money awn; from him and flew off. making him keep the eggs warm un'll she returred. But he just hal to do as he wan tool, for knowing what a temper Mrs William had. he thought it better to humor hoi and let her have hci own way. Besldea. it would never do to let the egga get chilly, he knew, for ihe knew to ray, being as Mrs. Woodpecker Wood-pecker had taken all the rest money with her when she went out. He , hadn't a penny ! I don't know what Tlngallng was going to say then but ho wus about ready to tell William it wan nil a joke they had been playing on him after all. nnd that be would explain everything every-thing to Mrs Woodpecker when she returned, bo she v.oudn't be cro?s any longer, when crack! crack! crack! P "We're after the rent, Mrs, Woodpcckor," explained the landlord, prc-tenilliu; prc-tenilliu; nol to know that it was William who woi Bitting m the eg -, iriK at the others and pretending notto know that it was William who was sluing on the eggs. Bthc lives of their children i to be) de- pended oh it. So there he sat ihlnking things over, and what a pickle he'd bo In 11' I Mrs. Wooduecker suent all his money j when suddenly there was a rut-a-tat- I j tat on the front door, I ! 'Come In," he called, for of course I 'll ho couldn t gel off the eggs III Mr. Tlngallng, the fairy landlord ! I and Xlck and Nancy, the twins, and I Ihe Magical Mushroom came in at Ifl "We're after the rent, Mrs. Wood-pecker' Wood-pecker' explained the landlord, wlnk- ll I William bluahod to thi roots of his J feathers, "I I'm sorry, air," ho II stammered, "but my husband isn't 1 here just now '' Which was perfectly Ii true, as William, of course, had no -.31 husband at all' It was the only thing crack' went something that sounded like tiny pistol shots. Everybody Jumped! (Copyright, 1920, N. E. A '