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Show Ij ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS CY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON i Ijdjfe A MARVELOUS 01 RE. Mr. Scribble 8 rati ii came puffin? back to IfcadOW Grove school In five minutes, as he had run all the way from Farmer Smith's barn, having H watched the old tin rooster on top as 1 he swung around on a pivot. "The wind is south by north." he told Dr. Mink, with a little leaning j toward the west." Hl ' Tire! nodded Ir. Mink. "Now U I can cure Markie Muskrat, I'm sure. frnr tout. S' ltnrier So,ulrrrl brought a prlokly burr. Cutie Cottontail, a leaf of lettuce and others brought wheat, moss and the different things Dr. Mink had said were necessary to cute the little muskrat hoy of his dreadful il . i.M. i all. . I stuckankantmovanlnch. When everything was quiet again and all the Meadow Qrove pupils had returned to their seats, Dr. Mink mixed everything together and pounded pound-ed it with a stone." Then he gave ' The viind iv .mtli by ,, irth," he to!d lr. Mink I You see the wind has to be Just right. ftlarkle sat vei -till and didn't say .. word. .Neither .!;.i N'aocy, who had slipped her little scissors back Into i It-i poekei the minute 1 i Mink had set Markie free from the chewing-gum chewing-gum that hus bidding him down. Jusi then all the others returned from th. errand! that Dr. Mink had sent them on. never for a moment BUS-r BUS-r ethiK that ul he wlthed was to them out ..f the way while he was cuttli!? Alarklo loose. ,'ws.1j Judge ( row brousrht the grain of corn he had been told to get, then Mi. i iiii. i; . mv in lugging sassa- Marklc a spoonful, and said a charm which went like this. "Chewum. gumum. sltum, stlckum. Don'tum tellum cureum llckuin." Then he waved his hands three times. Now get up, " he commanded. And sure enough Markie stood right up 'Wonderful'.' gasped the fairymanl schoolmaster. "Marvelous." Terry Toad held up his liand. "Please, his hair's all off behind!" he s.iid. I That." coughed Dr. Mink, ' is al-1 ways the vvav with this disease, The j hall comes out awfully." |