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Show It F tl ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Y OUVE ROBERTS BARTOW - Snddenlj rD three of them drifted toward an opening In a rerj large cloud "How lovely!" cried Nancy, Holding I on to her little dandelion parachute ' with both hands I feel just like a bird-It's bird-It's better than a flying machine." called Nick, who was drifting far ' away by this time, hanging onto his ! own tiny umbrella "Are wo av iators now, Mr Buskins?" "Yes." shouted Buskins in reply. I "Only you can't guide yoursolve-'. j But don't be frightened, "your littlo car knows where It is taking you I Just hold on and be patient." I'P they sailed, the throe of them.' up and up and up, over tho orchard. over the house (it looked now like a playhouse with wooden chimneys so 1 tar below it wos). over the hill and the river and the pond. Thev were making straight for tho blue sky and its white clouds, just as they hail done in their littlo apple-tree elevator Finally they poked through the i very clouds themselves, but still they! went on up Into the mystorlous re gions beyond They passed Balloon Jand. and off In the distance they could see the city of Balloonstick. Then Kite Land, and Soap Bubble Ijind Feather Land, and the Land of Everything, one after the other went by like floors in a building that you pa.ss In an elevator They saw all she queer places they had visited before on their adventures In the Land-of-Up-ln-the-Alr. And now they woro delighted to think that they were going to havo another one. They wont so high thoy began to fear that perhaps they were goint? to bump Into tho sun, when suddenly all thrco of them drifted toward an opening open-ing in a very largo cloud, and floated! through Instantly they knew they I were In a new and strange country, for tho opening closed behind them and the cloud was no longer a cloud, but a beautiful green land full of trees and flowers (To Ho Continued) (Copyright. 1021. NEA Service) |