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Show ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS j EY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON I IA MTV GETS I K BRED Mrs Field Mouse -looked in horrified amoxoment at her husband, Murtchle. calmly eating his soup. How could he, when his own son was crying with an Injured ce' Particularly, when Flop had almost told them that Mr Scribble-Scratch, 'he fair;, schoolmaster schoolmas-ter was. the cause of It. Of course, he didn't Just say so. exactly, but well he let them think so unyway How did he know that Nick, the at- I -Ii .i-'.! hk i I.. 1 -1 ' 1 1 a i -...ii n:. an Im i I m lir t lli a a In 1 in a t nn in of your own son " screamed Mrs Mmi - , tendance-officer at the Meadow Grove I school, had seen h's father and made! '. report that morning about him and Aluffv Mole playing truant "Mr. Mouse, I should like to know what you mean by allowing this awful aw-ful treatment of your own son." screamed Mrs. Mouse. '"Do you Intend In-tend to lot that dreadful falryman go wlthoiut a word"" oh no 1 guers not " answered Munchle, quietly reaching for a crack ' er. "Flop, how come you can't got your spelling? I met Mlkr Mole and ho says Muff got a hundred on his spelling paper today " "Oh, he didn't at all'" denied Flop I stoutly "He didn't get a hundred an more than I did." "I must have made a mistake th( n 'went on Munchle. it was his numb -r paper 1 gucs-i "He didn't either:" denied Flop. "He Id'dn't know how to do the earth-worm 'problem any more than 1 did. All he could do was to eat. He at I'rrtns until I thought he d bust (Flop said Bust). The storm brought 'cm up and Muff didn't have to hunt at all. They seemed to be hunting for him Instead And he WOUldn t move an inch and I couldn't get out of the hole and " He stopped suddenly, realizing that he had let the cat out of the bag "Why, Flop Field Mouse"' cried his mother In surpUse and dropping him off her lap. "Munchie go get a birch-rod birch-rod nt once ' |