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Show ADVENTIRES OF THE TWINS I BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON ; FALL FEVER. It nraa lovely fall day. the kind I of a day you want to be out under the sky and do exactly as you please The kind of a day that mothers decide to let the mending and the Jelly-making and the house cleaning lake care of themselves, and put on their best hat i and go visiting. The kind of a day fathers slum shut the drawers In their office desks and deride to let luisine'j Cveryhod had fall fever, but So a m per Squirrel had It worst of all. and books and dollars lake care ofl themeaelves. Then they put on then-oldest then-oldest hats and go out hunting or fish- '. Ing, or golfing, or whatever It Is that fathers do. But that's because they are grown-, I ups and may do as they please. Ifi they were little "uns It would be dif-I dif-I fercnt. Because little 'una may not ' do as they please, particularly if It's , a school day! And this was a school day in Mea-, Mea-, dow Grove school' The sun came sprinkling down through the oak leaves Ilka filtered! the blue sky peeped at them H through every chink and cranny, ard H the breeze brought the most teasing H .-metis to tantalize noses H The little .Mink and Otter boys' sighed over their geographies ami,' thought of Lily Fond and Hippie Creek Phil Frog and Fannie Fish, too! H The Woodchuck bovs and t'ob Coon. H ' to say nothing of Flop Field Mouse,, H , got their history every way but rlgh. thinking ot the yellow corn hanging n rich and tempting in Parmer Smith's sweet patch. Harry Hedgehog and Muff Mole "H thought of fat Juicy earthworms to be had for another month only, unt'.l J Jack Frost took a notion to freeze the ground, and Cutey Cottontail's' mouth was watering for some lXi J Everybody had fall fever, but Scam-' per Squirrel had it worst of all. School! Humph! Just when nuts and acorns were getting ripe' He racked his brains for a plan of |