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Show H . i FOR LITTLE FOLKS It i y TOM.MV s sot Us. When Tommy Thoue md-Lcgger j said he forgot which sock he had put j g his money Into. Tingallng and tnel twins offered to help him. of course ! P There wasn't any time to be lost if they were to collect ill the rents thai gH day in the Land-of -Dear-Knows-1 j?! Where and tiny would have to begin' Tommy had told them that he had: jH so many socks he couldn't count them jH all, so you may imagine what a Job There wore socks in the bureau, - n l,- in tbc iwardrobi . and in the waahstand. V' it was, ThPre were socf-. In the H oureau, socks in the wardrobe and It K the waahstand; the chiffonier, too . B Tvns simply chuck-full' Hut that was1 In his bedroom only. They hid over- fP flowed into the dining room even, MH mind you and the sideboard and china - lflH closet and linen-chest were stuffed P But that was in trie bedroom and' dining room only. They had over-j B flowed still further into the parlor, pfjk and do you know Tommy Thoi nd- HS Ledgers socks were stuffing the piano and sticking out of tlie what-not. and even the umbrella stand was too crowded with socks tor even the very slenderest cane to have found standing room. But that was in the bedroom and dining room and parlor only for even the kitchen was bursting with stocks the cabinet and the oven (I don't know how he ever baked a pie), and the flour bins, and all the things you can think of that f can't, were as full of socks as this story Is of words! l haven! mentioned cupboards, you see, because the cupboards were full of Shoes, as Tommy had said. Well. Nick ami Nancy and Tingallng, and even the M;.H'i'il .Mushroom, hunted and hunted for Tommy's rent money But nobody found it! t h, yes. Tommy was hunting too- He was an elegant searcher at that, for he could unroll a pair of socks and roll them up again quid', as you can snap your fingers. No wonder, with him wearing fourteen thousand and then some pairs of socks a week. (Coups right, 1020, V l I . i |