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Show ; FOR LITTLE FOLKS v THE MYSTERY SOLVED. It was a great mystery about "Wal-ly "Wal-ly Wopdchuck getting upstairs Trom (he kitchen without anyone soeing him, and n still greater mystery how he got the children up here and into their trundle beds! When everyone ev-eryone knew he had put them out that very day. But while Tingaling and the twins stood watching Wally rocking the babies and singing to them in his electric-sweeper voice, who should (Mushroom talked so fast he was all out of breath. j Tingaling, the fairy landlord, jlng-; jlng-; i led his bells meaningly, and Wally (shivered. tHe was mortally afraid j he'd get one tied on, or six maybe. Wally had no answer for this. ("Well," he said finally, "the birds idrop their babies out of tho nest to leach 'em to fly, don't they? And I read in the 'Log Hollow Bugle' ,that the people of Tlmbuc-Zanzicas-,car throw their children into the come rushing upstairs but the wise old Magical Mushroom. He had been keeping guard outside. "Oh, ho, so there he is!" he exclaimed, point' ing to Wally. "I'm going to tell on him. He made a new hack door-jvny door-jvny out of the kitchen, while you were waiting in the parlor for your tea, hunted up his lost babie3, and then rushed home again with them. Re dug a hole in the roof of his bedroom and dropped them in." The. water to teach 'cm to swim, so I thought I'd try the same thing and " "You're a queei' 'tin," said Tingaling. Tinga-ling. 'And youre quite sure it wasn't because you wanted all the food for yourself?" Wally nodded that ho was well, pretty sure! "All right!" said tho fairy, turning turn-ing away. "Don't do it again, and I'll let you off this time. Come on, kiddies!" (Copyright, 1020, N. B. A.) |