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Show j 1 ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS I S OLIVE ROBERTS BAMTON ooked as BSBBBBBv , ... mil 1 m IThe Twins helped Pusklns to do all sorts of things up in the queer place 111 tho sky, which we shall now have 10 call the "Iand of Everything " Thev iound all of the stove's lids, scattered far and wide b Wniszy Tornado, and put them on; "they found the wheel for the wheelbarrow, but got It on I nkwaid. and tho poor thing always liad to go backward after that, they s r,.ilkcd the cow and gave the milk to a dry churn that said it was losing Its hpbps; they tied on the pump handle, pinned the washing on the line emptied emp-tied tho dust out of the farmer's boots. Stacked up straw, 'ay cord-wood in neat piles, mended bits of broken icneo and pretty soon the Land of Everything looked as orderly as a Sunday school. Well, that's done'" said Eusklns. taking out his book. "Now the next thing i9 to return all these things t their owners. We havo to keep this place pretty well cl -arcd out to make room for the next lot- v mzz ir-nado ir-nado usually makes several trips a year, an dlf he doesn't come himself. Howly Hurricane or Curlloew t'y- Clone are suro to bo along and they do Just as much damage as he does " "All right." said Nick. "Let's begin." be-gin." And so they did. "With the magical magi-cal upple-tree elevator and their wonderful won-derful (Jrecn Shoes. It was amasing how quickly tho tornado things were returned to earth Iiuskin.s said that he didn't know how he had ever gotten got-ten along before without the children's help. One thing sure, he said, ho never nev-er could again! "Are we going on more adventures?" adven-tures?" asked Nancy. "Goodness yes. child," answi red 'Eusklns. "The Land-of-Up-in-the-Air lis a big place. We haven't begun yet. I Did you ever hear of tho Runaway 1 Feathers"" (T, B t on tinned) (.Copyright, IJtJJ, NEA Service) |