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Show i ! & ! Ij FOR LITTLE FOLKS ! o1 i Mrs Woodchuck Talk-s I Nancy .'sat ' near to one hall door, I Nick 'beside another, and Tlngallng, I the fairy landlord, guarded the front, jo that Wally Woodchuck couldn't gel out, . I suppose you think that if he had any brains at.ajl.he eoujd, ha.vc sneak.- ed out the back way! Not at all. The Magical Mushroom was playing po-j llceman outside. ' a ad ' Wally', peeping! out the kitchen window, saw him, and knew the jig Avas r p. Mrs, Woodchuck was boiling the fast, the timo wouldn't' $cem .to' long. The odd part of 't was, she didn't seem to feci a bit sad over, losing her. children, that being the errand Tlnga-1 ling had . come on. You know, gossip i had it that Wally had chucked his children outdoors to shift fof them- .selves. "It's very nlco weather, don't you! think?" said Mrs. Woodchuck, smoothing her apron. Everybody agreed that it was. "I was Just .saying to Wally," she continued, "that It's good planting j Wuliy, I'eeplns Out die Kitchen Window. Saw the Mugieal Mushroom Playing Play-ing Policeman Outside. water in the parlor, while" Wally was supposed' to bo digging sassafras for i the tea, in the kitchen, the roots grow- i ing conveniently right through the celling. Wally ulrokwl his whiskers i as he gazed with a queer smile at the smelly roots. Then he got busy at i something else. i Mrs. Woodchuck, as I said, was ! boiling water in hr little copper pot, i and talking as fast as she could, while they were waiting for Wally. I suppose sup-pose she thought that if she talked weath'er and there should be good crops." Everybody nodded "yes" that that was very true, loo. "And Wally was paying " she went; on, when suddenly scratch, scratch, thump, thump! came from the kitchen, kit-chen, and everybody jumped. "Oh, do sit down!" she waved them back smilingly, smi-lingly, "It's only Wally chopping the sassafras. It's pretty hard to lossen it up you know." Tingallng looked uneasy. (Copyright. 1020, N. E. A.) |