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Show ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS j H BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON . BUDDY BLUE BOTTLE READS. The next person to rend for the visit ors in the Meadow Grove school wa.: Buddie Blue Bottle Now, being a little short of readers. Mr. Scribble Scratch, the fairy school master, couldn't find enough small one- to '4o around, so Buddy had to take a large one. But heRJOUldh't hol l it. at all, not even .when he used all six of his hands, or feet, or whatever it Is that a fly holds things with. So Nancy laid a reader on the teach- Buddy wasn't a very good reader, for all his eyes were so big and every- ers desk, and Buddy walked over It Calling out each word as he came lo it and then passing on to the next. Buddy Bud-dy wasn't a very good reuder, for all his eyes were so big and everything, but he did remarkably well. This was wh) IU tell you, although no one else knows it The teacher' d BK happened to be our old friend, the Magical Mushroom, Mush-room, who could speak eery language, too. and, when Buddy came to a hard word like "irrepn hcnsible" or "intem-pestivit" "intem-pestivit" the Mushroom whispered it into his sppH Thi.- was on one page Buddie read: 'When the monarch surveyed bis re- H cenl territorial acquisitions, obtained i by much devastating warfare in which H ill ill- ammunition Imd been wasted and devoted retainers had In id down H their existences, he fell info a melan- chollc cevery from which none of his vassals could arouse him " After reading the last void - glibly H as if he'd been saying bis A B C's, Buddy b UKZ'ed back to his seat. j M ; i :-:.id Mr. I'oubk I M Chuck, "whose little hoy is this, Mr. jScrrbble Scratch? He's very smart'" Scribble Scratch bowed proudly and explained who Buddy was. H "Would you mind explaining jUSl what he was reading?" asked Mr. Ofjl. jH Poor Scribble Scratch pulled his H 'forelock desperately, but it didn't help fl la hit. J haven't any idea," he had liJ jto confess, "but it sounded all right b 1020. N. E. AJ H |