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Show ji ADVENTURES F THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON -f MR ORIOLE'3 HOME "My! My'" exclaimed Tingallng, the lalryman landlord of the Land of-1 ear-Know s-Where "I pium for got all about Oliver Oriole's rent. Come on, twins. hrln- ihc poeket-book poeket-book cn ! the lead pencil and we'll g6 It right away The tailoring busi nesa must be good this year, so no doubt Oliver has barrels of money. He's a ery popular tailor, you know." s " iiS n - I CIWH5. ORIOLE. I &?J And every time a breeze blew, Oliver's apartment bobbed up and down like a cee-caw. I Now Oliver's apartment was a little, bit hard to reach, being the most ex-' elusive one in the Maple Tree Flats, and. if It hadn't been for the Magi cal Green Shoes the twins wore, and Tingaling being a fairy, the) could t never have got there at all Even Scramble Squirrel couldn't jgo calling, nor Chick Chickaree, and certainly Oscar Owl, and Corny Coon couldn't find their way at night to Oliver's front door, for what do you '3pose His flat was out at the Up-i plest end of a tiny branch that was noi thicker than the .knitting needle 'your mother (or maybe your gTand-ma) gTand-ma) knits your mittens with. And every time a breeze blew, Oliver's apartment bobbed up and down like a aee-saw. How he ever managed to cut waistcoats without snipping them, I'm sure I don't know, and how he ever basted (rouse; :, without ruining them, I don't know either. But he manage'd very well where Ihe was And his wife liked it, for not only did her babies got rocked to sleep regularly without, any trouble to her. but it was a relief not to have to clean up chips as she used to. when they lived right under the Flickers. You remember, don't you. how the South Wind and the fairies moved them to the end of tho branch ? Well. Tingaling and the twins soon found themselves at Oliver's front door and tapped gently. (Copyright, 1920. N. E. A ) |