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Show ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE RO&ERTS OArlTON m j -cr1S H J At tho gate itself n keeper stopped out and asked for the paj.word. Tho town of Balloonatick was ery queer, as Nancy and Nick could see, oven beforo Buskins led the way through toe birr ga At the gate Itself a keeper stepped out and asked for the password ' Thlngamagum!" Said Buskins quickly, Nancy said, "Thingamagum," and so did Nick. 'Any matches'?" asked the ' gatekeeper. gate-keeper. "No matches." said Buskins, Nancy said "No matches," and so did Ne k The big gate swung open. and. the; thre travelers entered like conquering conquer-ing heroes Buskins on his grssn pn-per pn-per elephant. Nancy on her pink pig and Nick on his blue puppy The city was built of tls-sue paper: houses. tOWSrs, streets and bridges 1 were of tissue paper It was tho city Of Fourth of July balloons. The twins thought it the most curious cu-rious of all their adventures, this Land-of-XJp-ln-tne-Alr. Down the street they rode, trying' I not to stare too curlouslv at all they saw. but it was most difficult to re member one's manners with tissue paper people golns about ns though they were quite tho usual thing A very fat, round rltjlmpty-Dumptj was talking to a very hearty Uncle Bam, and jolly old King Cole was riding rid-ing down street on lemon-yellow pussy-cat, talking most amlablj to a stout Queen of Hearts sedately riding rid-ing a purple rooster. All of them bed hurried away from tho earth and come up to the sky to live. No one paid the slightest attention to tno isllors. so the children chil-dren began to think that their manners man-ners WSre wasted. We :i:ce to be noticed when we're polite. Buskins took them next to the hospital where the balloons were re-paired, re-paired, that got burned a bit on the way. "And now." said he. "we must go back to our apple-tree elevator. Wb have still much to see." (To Bo ontlmied) (Cdpy right, 19L'l. NEA Service) |