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Show ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON . , Ml rr MOLE MEETS FtOPFY MOUSE. "Daddy." cried Muff Mole one morn- ing as he was starting off to the Meadow Grove School, "plfasa let me 'stay home todav. won't you? After the Isiorm yesterday it's fine worm-hunt-ling, and besides I'm sick of lessons: 1 I Mike Mole shook his head sternly i"N'o, of course you can't stav at home. I What would Mr. Scrlbbl Scratch .think Resides he'd be suspecting you Mikf Mnla vhiMiW hla head "No. of ronrv von can't Mnv at home " were playing truant and be sending that attendance-officer Nick here after ou 1 won't have him poking around, i here spoiling m house, so you run a long and get your lessons and be sure sou make a hundrod today In speii-f.g" speii-f.g" Muff didn't say anything more for he knew it was of no use. and trotted olf to school as though the matter lere ended. But hla brain was buay for all that On the way he met Floppy Field Mouae. and Floppy was looking as ilnough all his frlunds had moved to t lie North Star and eft him alone. He was swinging his books by their strap nz thousrh he'd like to give them one cxtru hard swing and land them In a tree-toii where he'd never see them ngam Why ? He'd Just heard that the corn over at Smith's was getting ilpe and as sweet as tho Inside of your suga r-bowl. He. too had coaxed and coaxed to stay home that day. but Munchle I Mouse, his father, had slopped cmp- t i n cr the garbage-cans in Maple-Tree Flats long enough to give him a lec- ture on steadiness and promptness I and reliability and things like that, which Is most unsatisfying when the, corn's ripe and your back teeth are jalrly wan-ring for It. The Mole boy bumped right into the Mouse boy, both looking as glum as blue Monday. '"Ix." said Muff " 'LgO," answered Flop. And they trudged glumly on tort to-rt ther. i upyrlght. l?:o. N K , , |