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Show -febTIME STORIES BY HOWARD R. GARIS MEDll i - p iin n n L Ji ;" ( mi ' iiy J .1 morning ,.j ! fir Ml 1': nr" I r - I will . "? 7 Kt 1 I t(u lirsS ' tleWs tind through is3 Sc:' i- 1.1 the duck lady a I iSIV' " B). rnd of cak. ind R'hi . . ivo it :f . 1', 1 1 M 1 atad 3 Mai , i nti t 1 ' '71 ji !uW H . ii r ' 1 ' I . 1 Bg 1 r." Mt!g UMi tJ t :' I'm r. ; ' uia -. ;M'J nt' 1 "i -i I-.- Usfl a ' If- Wlggllj . half 1 r bajj !k in 1S1 ! ' ".. lttai (hi nd ea t i. n. I pw. 1 like a AlU 5''. , (0 & . until ma kin I n j 1 IE U I H . 11., an . Mi ' re.'es n ' 1 L'-i, ii n bird tn .. ' "I'm a maaple B v,-r M' "f" in '111 '; :. . ! 7, I ' ylanii rm '. m roll I i r iIT ' I''" ' I III said tUj c'""" 11. I i,. r ' of a le Dirt), and If you huve no place I to -tay I w ish ou would come to mv lu.llow Mumji I nnKalow and meet Nurse I Jane She can hake pus. lint she never I saw a loagplc hird." f "1 II he Very clad to come." the magpie mag-pie answered. "And If It Isn't too much j trouble to you ill just snuggle down In I your hafket unless you have something in it." I "No," said the bunny. I had cake In J It hut It i- empty now. and It will be i just the pla e tot u pie a magpie bird, ' ind Uncle Wluglly laughed and twinkled Ilia pink nose. So the magpie bird shugEled down in the bunnj i bosket, and off hopped Mr Longcars, wooderog what Nurse Jane would say to the company he was bringing bring-ing home L'ncle Wigglly was almost at his hol-, hol-, low stump bungalow, and he thought the magpie must pe asleep, as lie was so nulel in the I aakot when all pf a xuU- Ii n out from behind a hush jumped the uOd old Fox. 'Ah. ha! Just in time!" barked the Fox i ii nibble your earn, L'ncle Wig-giiy Wig-giiy Uut first i ll sal something good that ou hove in the basket." "There is nothing no.i to cut In my t." said the hutiny for lie thouuht no ..lie would eunl to "eat tho magpie." Ye. there is s. .me t Ii i ii vo.mI." harked the fox. "1 can see c.ik- CrUZnbfl bo-twaen bo-twaen the basket cracks ami maybe there La pie in It, "loo' Then, all of B sudden, the Bird awakened awak-ened and sang: "I'm S pie! I'm u pie' I'm not up hglv, but, "I m a pie! I'm a pie; 1 "llu! I told you there v. as .something In the l.asktt' You can't fool me," .ried the K'- :k he pushed off the COVeT "I want piel" "Oh. mahe I can foci you!' whistled the magpie bird. "How am l for pie?" and uilh that he fh-n up and hit the Vox on his soft and lender nose, the bird having a sharp Peak. "Oh! h"' howled tbe POX. "I 'b.n't like this kind r.f pic!" Then away in-i. in-i. in and lh.- hum.- U-ol: the ru.nrpi.- I.lrd to Nurm- lane . 10 was glad to see the piecr Chap. On'. .i)r.un the PoX was fooled. And If the rag doll doern't plant canarj hird seed in the goldfish bowl to make next ear's "'hrlstmas 'raes grow. Ill tell you soon about L'iRIe 'l(.'rll' s valentine. oo |