Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-23 | Page 5 | Adventures of the Twins

ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS 1 I BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON . THE PICNIC. The Meadow Grove school was having hav-ing a picnic Mr. Scribble Scratch. Jhe fairyman schoolmaster, announced it on Friday afternoon after recess, and such a racket you never heard such squeallngs and squeaking and (makings and whistlings and buzzings and e erything. Even N'Ick. who always al-ways tried to be dignified (being truant tru-ant officer, you know), threw up his .. . Mrs. Squirrel didn't go lo bed until JH Il and got up at 3, and Mrs. Bunny n H didn't go to bed at kf Mrs. YYoodchuck kept, at it until old d J Grandaddy Mole, who always said he is H was hard ot hearing as well as seeing, L had to rap on the wafl so he could got. I J some sleep. L J But, oh boy. if you could have seen the lovely basket Mrs. YVoodchuck fl- L nally set on the piano, piled up snowy 'S' I cap and caught it on his toe. and Nan Icy did a happy little Jig around the i room They were to meet on Saturday under un-der the big willow tree on the edge of Lily I'ond and each family was to j bring his own basket of goodies. Of 'course, all that night there were the I best .smells ever in Meadow Grove I Land, because there were qakes and j pies to bake and sandwiches to be made, and wild herryade to bottle. and round like a gypsy wagon, only ff with mysterious, delicious locking lumps slicking up here and there un- der the neatly stretched napkin, and J the lovely piles of starched "coalies" laid on chairs tor the family to slip into at daybreak, you would have dc- P cided. I'm Mire, that it didn't hurt old r Mr. Mole one bit lo lose an eyeful or two of sleep. Bui the mean thing told it all over lhat he'd lost forty