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Show ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON T SCRAMBLE SQUIRREL A PRISONER "Ah. ha!" exclaimed Tingallng when Mrs. Squirrel told him that Scramble, her husband, had got so fat she couhl not get into her own house. "If that Is the case, why dt n't you go iu and lei him stay out. That's what Mrs. Tlngn l;ng did when I rained so rapidly. She aid I was rulnlnj, the bed springs, so she put tne ln a hammock in the back yard." "Oh. yes, " added Nick, "and Daddy way with his whiskers. He says, says he: 'Mr. Tingallng. this doorway Is Just wide enough Because, if my whis kcrs will go !n without touching at either side, my body will go In nlcclv, too.' " "Of course!' nodded Mrs. Squirrel, r'but he was as skinny as a bone then, after stan ing ah winter. Tho trouble trou-ble was that after moving In, wc found the pantry chuck full of goodies, hick-orynuts, hick-orynuts, ana hazelnuts, and acorns, and what not, :nat last year's people Just then they heard an awful sigh, and turning they beheld Scramble h imself. often sleeps outside in our tent when. It's hot. Once lie let Nancy and met sleep there, too." "Humph!" norted Mrs. Squirrel, "don't you s'pose I'd let Scramble sleep out. and live out, and stav outi only too gladly ' There's Just one trou- j ble. I can't get him out." "Goodness'" cried Tingallng "That is funny' Why, I remember particular ! ly that when ,e took the place and signed the lease, he measured the door-1 had left behind them. And Scramble, was so hungry, ht ate up nearly tho entire stock at one- meal, never noticing notic-ing that his sides wero getting llkel watermelons. When ho did discover what had happened, it was too late! He couldn't get r,ut of the house! He stuck tight every time ho tried " Just then they heard an awful sigh, and turning they beheld Scramble himself, him-self, or rather his head, gazing wistfully wist-fully at them from the doorway. |