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Show ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS EY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON DISINCI4M Tl) Another pupil who iMdni show up In the Meadow drove School after the fall picnic near Lily lJond. was Cuti-Cottontail. Cuti-Cottontail. Mut Cutle was different from Chip Chipmunk, who had played truant l.i-i an 1 1 )) wished 1 vlsll thi buckwheat buck-wheat field. Ills moiber and daddy knew v.hire he was. He was In bed. I At first Mrs. Cottontail thought it, was cnrrotonla, or cabbaglils. because Cutie had stoppid at Farmer Smith's' 4 shrieked in dismay. "Then send for Dr, Minis at otie. He may have the measles again!" Again!" Mrs. Cottontail disdained. "He nev r had them at all' Those were Ink spots he got on In school and I had to soak him In sour milk for a week." But Just the same, she did se d for fr. Mink and that gentleman came, carrying a easeful of bottles that would have put a drug store to shame. He felt Cutle's pulse and looked ! Cutic's mother ami fladdj Icnen where be wan. He was in bid. I sJLss-patch on his way home from the. Ion top of the pie and cake and beet picnic, and he had eaten a lot of things lec cream he had had for lunch. So ! she had called up her cousin, Mrs. I I Bunny, and asked what to do ahout ! II Mrs. Bunny said to put a Wlld-; Wlld-; mustard poultice over the pain, but j when Mrs. Cottontail told her that the pain never seemed to stay two j minutes In tho same place, being In one ear, then the other, then his paws, or some place else. Cousin Bunny 1 at his tongue and stuck a big thermometer ther-mometer into his mouth. Mr. and Mrs. Cottontail stood by anxiouslv walling to hear what he had to say Finally he took out the thermometer thermome-ter and looked at it through hit specks then he looked over his speck; at Cutle. "This young gentleman has a ver severo rase of disinclination." he an nounced. "and we must proceed tt cure him at once." Copyright, itSO. N. B. A. |