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Show ADVENTURES OF WE WINS 1 DY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON MORE TROI BLE b or MARKIE. Markle Muskrat sat very still while the other pupils 0f Meadow Grove school were reciting poems for lne sc hool board visitors'. rlbhle Scratch thought to himself. " hat n good Lo Markle Is today. I'll haio to give bun 200 this month In behaviour if he keeps on being good this way " He never guessed that Markle was saying over and over to himself "flow lucky I was to lose my gum' How-lucky How-lucky I was to lose my gum''" For, you "ChUekj was a chicken. Ghueky was f a thief. Chucky at. a bug that was fitting on a leaf. Home came bugsy's father, mad as could be. Chuckv at Mini. too. so that was all of he. ' Then he bobbed his lv-. l with a jerk, which was Intended for i bow, and took his seat. Mr. owl and Judge Crow breathed Mr. owl and Judge Crow Listened Attentively t Every Snoech. know, his chewing gum had popped 0U of the little muskrat boy's mouth when he was marching just when he was wondering what lo do with In Mr Owl and Judge Crow listened attentiely to every speech lop whvn il was Cobby Coon's turn to come t:p front and speak, quite close to lhe visitors, vis-itors, they didn't look awfully happy, and Judge Crow nudged Dr. Mink to move over, which he did. There whs a great scraping of chairs and after everything was quiet. Cobby Con began, be-gan, first licking his lips and whiskers. This was his speech- I more easily when he d gone. Chippie Chipmunk came next This wa' he: ,-pe. ch "Nuts are sw e and good to eat, ! Acorns, loo. are fine, j But of all the goodies in the world. There's buckwheat every time ' That's a good hoy'" beamed Mr. ' Owl. "Whos next?- ' Marklt Muskrat'"' called- Scribble Scratch, .and Markle Immediately tried I to get up But he couidti t move an inch Something wa holding him in I his seat as tight as wax. I Copyright, lsu, N E A.) |