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Show I ADVENTURES OF TEE TWINS fEY OLIVE ROBERTS SARTOf ii Boetncd to add to his miser when the maid aunts ui and started t !, at him with a stout nn i Pillows of all sizes and shapes wen. pinned to a clothesline between :he maple trees In the yard. It was house-cleaning house-cleaning time and the whole family of them was getting d sunning. The grand -daddy of all the pillows, a big fat bolster, was doubled over the line . lght on his stomach, as though Tie had a tremendous pain from oscrstuf-ling, oscrstuf-ling, like kUJjlies get on holidays. It seemed to add to his misery, when the maid came out, and started ! beat him with a stout cane. Ho I -welled up still more, with indigna tion, probably, until he was in a fair .jj way to burst. In fact, he was burst f lT1g- A tiny rip appeared in one tt ' his fides which grew to quite a size 4 and In a twinkling several fluffy F leathers had crowded out and flut- V tered away over the tree-tops up ln'.o I the sky. I ' Oh, look," cried Nancy "They're I calling straight into the sun!" I But as soon as she had said it, she I remembered and Nick remembered.' too what liuskins hd said on their return from their last adventure. Buskins had mentioned a country In the sky which he called "The Land of Runaway Feathers?" "Let's go over to the orchard," said Nick. Away they ran to the apple-tree which had the tunny little old wood' en house tucked away In Its boughs. The Twins looked around in tlv grass with their sharp eyes to see if thf Magical Mushroom hadleft the Green Shoes for them'. Hut nary a thing did they find but a few browny-w browny-w hite petals blown down by i h" wind from the blossom laden branches "We'll have to clin.b." said Nancy. "Ni wishing shoes tod a '." "Shucks." said Nick, "the houe. won't move, I ju.-t know, when we've only ordinary shoes on. But let 9 try. anyway." Up they seramblod. (To Be I ontlnued) 'Copyright. 19'2. NEA Service) |