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Show $ ; I -FOR LITTLE FOLKS ; 0 WALLY WOODCHUCK DISAP. PEARS. Tingaling started to go to Wall Woodchuck's kitchen to hunt for him. because Wally hadn't come back with the sassafras for tea, which Mrs. Woodchuck wns making lor Nancy and ' Nick and tho fairy landlord. I But when he got there, it was just as he had feared, no Wally was to be; ,scen anywhere, nor a hair of hlra, and j the sassafras roots dangling from the bad enough to have the woodchuck put all his children out of house and home, without sneaking out of his punish- ' ment by fibbing. j So lie hurried back 'to the parlor : where Mrs. Woodchuck was boiling water in her little coper kettle. , "That hus band of yours has got away," he declared crossly. "Where is he'" "My my!" exclaimed Mrs. Woodchuck. Wood-chuck. but she didn't look a bit wor- ried. to tell the truth. One might al- i i r- ceiling hadn't been touched- "Aha!" said he softly, "I understand now what all that pounding was that we heard a minute ago. Mr. Wally wasn't tender-, Ing the sassafras anv more than I'm digging diamonds. The old fat rascal was digging another hallway oijt of his home so that he could escape. Yes, sir, there it is. Wait until I catch bim, though. I" tie six bells on to him instead of one; I'll tie one o neach log, one on his neck, and a big loud one onto his tall, the sly old scamp!" My, but Tingaling was mad! It was most say she looked happy. "Did you i look everywhere?" she asked. "Everywhere I knew about," snapped I. Tingaling, "but you woodchucks ; change all my houses so much after I K' rent them to you, that I can't find my way around at all." . f Just then there was the funnies. f . j sound upstairs a little squeal .and a ' ! little snort, and some more squeals! ; "What's that?" demanded Tingalir. M sharply. j j j "That, my dear sir," answered Mrs. r Woodchuckc almly, "is the children." I i i |