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Show ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS I I BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON !! THE BUMBLE BABIES' BLANKETS Mr Bumble Boo chuckled to him-j ieelf when Tingaling. the fairy land 1 I lord, and the twins begans to searrh I for the lost C.reen Shoes in his sticky' dining room 1 wonder if ft was alto geiher an accident that he had upset several honey -pots as he passed through, for Sirs. Bumble kept her; honey stored up In Ihe neatest liitlo round jars you ever saw-It saw-It was bo dim that the children and a distance "I'm back In the bedroom. Come right along if you wish " Tingaling was afraid to lose sight M of his wary tenant, so away they start-. start-. il ncain. filing out of the dining room In search of Mr. Bumble-Bee's bed- j room. And the bumping and stumbling 11 started all over again, for the further they went, itu? darker the place got. f and they couldn't see an inch In front of their noses. The worst of it was that whatever ihcy touched now stuck to "NOW, Bumble," called the fairyman, "got your rent all ready for us7" I th fairy W0re covered with honev jquite up to their chins before thej found their Green Shoes and slipped 'hem on again. Even so, they didn't forgol 'he errand thev had come upoi. and Nick had the big pocket book all ready to put Mr.. Bumble's rent into whi n he paid Tingaling. "Now, Bumble," called the fairy !rnnn. "Got your rent all ready for us? It's the thirty second day of the I month ' "I'm getting It," called Mr. Bee from them tight, for honey Is like excellent 'slue, nnd they wore quite covered. jH Mr. Bee, standing in the far corner fl of his bedroom, laughed until his sides shook (but it sounded exactly like buz j 111 tell you what he had done. He had unwrapped his babios from their fuzzy covers and laid the woolly blan-!kets blan-!kets on the floor. And tho fairy and jH the twins, unsuspectingly, stepped ripht into them |