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Show ' ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Y OLIVE ROBERT BARTON m l The Pie xa- particularly distressed No wonder Buskins couldn't under-1 stand Che poor things blov n Into the' sky by Whlssy Tornado. Because thol broom talked Spanish, the ow French, the pig Irish, the wheelbarrow Italian and 80 on, according to the families they belonged to. But Nancy and Nick had .'.ho lan-guage lan-guage charm thnt their old friend Magic Mushroom had Riven them and had no (rouble at all finding out the troubles of the poor wind-blown creatures, The pig was particularly' distressed because, he said, xvith roars' rolling dOTvn Ms checks, the xvli d ijad blown all the curl out of h's1 tall! Buskins and Nick laughed, ut Nancy patted him consolingly. ' Why, I Kues,s he feels as bad ai Jitt'i" j r.lrla do wli h.i.e nti curls at all." I she declared. Betty Brown useff to cry all the time unti' her mother ! hy. I know what 1 11 do, Mr. Pig. I'll do what Mrs B'OWn lid to Ki tty's hair 11. put a curl paper on j ,ur tall"' Which the is I there 1 - ing plenty of paper and all sorts of pins and Piggy went away squealing squeal-ing with delight, Tho broom was jabbering away at a great rate, but Nick made out his trouble at once. "He says he was a perfectly gooet scare-crow before the. ".in," said he, "but tho wind came1 :.long and blew off hia arm and all his clothes." "W il." said practical Nancy, look-log look-log around. ' That's easily fixed. There's ton of Straw lying every- j v here and. dear knows, there are more sticks than ;.nyt!ilng else, i We've enough stuff for a hundred --en re-crows clothes 'n ull There's a nice old coat right there! Whlzzy! did us one good turn anyway " So tho broopn (Va-s fixed as good as new in a very fcxv minutes. "I wouldn't mind so much," he apologized apolo-gized happily, "but it's corn-planting time, and the crows where 1 come from arc thicker than bees." (To Be Continued) (Copyright 1922 NEA Service |