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Show f ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Ii BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON A STR INGE DISK VS1 "Yes." said Or. Mink, looking down at Markle Muskrat's cnalr with a queer look on his face, "it's a very strange disease this c:iap has, Mr. Scribble Scratch, a very stiange one. Indeed! It's called stuckankantmov-aniheh.' stuckankantmov-aniheh.' The person vv ho has It. can't move at all!" "You don't say so." "exclaimed the falryman schoolmaster. ' I never heard of it before, did you?" N.in hadn't neither had Judge Dr. Mink looked very learned. "Fortunately, "For-tunately, 1 do know The secret of urlng this strange disease was told me by my great-grandfather's niece's cousin cou-sin s sister-in-law's brother." Fine'" crlec1. everybody at Dr. Blink's words, arid even the other pupil- in Meadow Grove School were so interested tint they quite forgot to sit' In position, and Scamper Squirrel feli iir hie ea t .1 Itogethor "But I must have help." went on Dr. , Mink, "or rather obedience Will ev- "ou don1! iiv ." exclaimed tin- fairy man schoolmaster. , -i never heard uf U before ' Crow nor Professor Hare nor Mr. Chuck, nor anybody "Is it a kind a paralysis "' asked Scribble Scratch anxiously, feeling sorry sor-ry that he had ever scolded Markle tor anything. "Sort of." nodded Dr. Mink, "only It doesn t last so long, and the only way to cure It is very difficult to learn. Very few people know how!" "Oh." cried Nancy very much worried, wor-ried, "don l y ou know, Dr Mink '' Won't Markle ever be well again " leryone agree to do exactly as I tell him?" And he looked at each one of them over his glasses. Markle was getting very uncomfortable, uncomfort-able, not so much because the chewing chew-ing gum he was sitting on was pulling pull-ing every hair out of him. nearly, but because he felt guilty. He sort or felt that he needed a good trouncing and; lit would be a lot better If someone! I Would Just give It to him and have It over with. .Copyright, 1920, N. E. A ) |