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Show ADVENTURES QF THE TWINS CY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON . i COBB COON in I i I K Cobby Coon WOkerup suddenly as Scribble Scratch; the fairy school nnus-ter. nnus-ter. asked the next question. It wus Scamper Squirrel's turn to answer, but Scamper wasn't there. "If you get nuts off a tree," said Scribble Scratch, "now do you get down ?" If acamper had been there he'd have answered promptly as he had been told to do. "off a goose'" Cut not being there, the faryman nodded to )hby to answer. "That's tiu' smartest boj yd," do tared Gimnddatldj 1 1 t Owl Now Cobby had been trained to an-, swer his own question on the school-! masterl list, and this was It: 'What side of a rooster do the feathers grow-on''" grow-on''" Cobby was to answer im the OUtslde. ' I '.111 being so sleepy with Ills midnight pruwllngs, and so full of SWeet corn he wasn't thinking at all, at all about what he was doing. So when Scribble Sera tel. nooded to htm to an-! swer. Scamper's question about the tree, he - it, I .iileh . i in the ..nisi, I, " .Mr Scribble Scratch nearly tainted he was so put out. What would the' 'visitors think? Anil Nancy had to tun her back, she f -It bo sorry for Cobby and tlu- .Magical Mushroom (who WSJ obligingly being the teacher's desk foi the time), giggled Gntll the b-u jingled and everybody looked at everybody else nnd made eyes, too surprised foi any thing. But Oranddaddy Hoot Owl. the president pres-ident of the school board (for that's who the visitors were- you know) mulled old Judge Crow, "That's the smartest boy vet," h( 'declared. "Don'i you think so. Chris?' How else would you get down off c tree?" "Well" winked .lodge Crow, "I-Vi sometimes got down on the inside." "Then you nmsl have been ashainei! of yourself for something," said Mr Owl sternly. This evidently is ar honorable boy. I s.iy w'e give him the prize." And Dr. Mink, Trof. Hare and Mr I' V. Chuck thought so, too. Whlcli surprised ev . rv body Rome people are born lucky. Copyright, 1920. n. k. a. |