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Show ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS M EY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON f A Bad Time for Larkle. Around and around matched the pupil3 of Meadow Grove school with Nancy leading, Nick playing the time on his mouth-organ, and Mr Scribble Scratch tapping the time on his desk. I Around and around inarched the pupils of Meadow Grove School. i; It was very fine marching in spite of Do difference In the legs of the pupils. I .'r enle Grasshopper Just took one step to an aisle leaping over the heads of those In front and then waiting until un-til he eould fall In line again Buddy-Blue Buddy-Blue Bottle s steps weren't bigger 'n the eye of a needle, and Cutis Cotton- I tall had to watch with all his might so he wouldn't hop on top of some ! of the little ones and mash them Markie Muskrat, though, was in a peck of trouble with his mouth full of chewing-gum and no place to put It Inil .i hollow in Ins i heek 1'ip make It worse, every time he started to sing the song about the mosquito and the fish, his mouth started to water He'd have thrown the chewing-gum away, only how eould he with everybody watching five extra one you know, H as the school board was visiting lhat H hut afier while tiie little muskn H boy forgot about his troubles. T '"bbI reason was that his mind got on IH words in the marching songs, r f especially the last ver.se, which went H "Mr Fish a-swlmmin' In the brook rc Heard the skeeter s smg. and then swam close so heoould hear, Thought the skeeter's s.al .n..hott.w iisLfl Thought It was so fine he up and H swallowed It, my (bar 'M As we go marching oitT Markie s mind da eh me. par.i'.u-larlv par.i'.u-larlv on two word-: 'fish' and "swal- IM lowed" anil what happened then was i very natural. He began and. before hi Knew it. he gave a big gulp Down jj went the gum, only It stuck In his throui and Markie choked alarmingly. (Copyright, 1020, V E. A.) 1 |