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Show ADVENTURES OF TEE TWINS j 8TY OLIVE ROBERTO BARTOW in irMBBMsai' iMti ' Off in ins cave vicUii bid Twelve T01 THE SIXTH HOI vi iv Nancy and Nick on the Five7And Ten-Ccnt-Store Mountain, stood gating gat-ing Into the store window, where the fishhooks were each of l hem finger iii the dimes they had found in their I pockets 1 1 had been a surprise to I discover the money, for neither of them had a penny when they started. "Oh, look1" cried Nick, "there s the very kind of hooks I've been wanting want-ing to catch shiners with." Then suddenly his eyes caught n glimpse of something else. "And there's one Of those new tops that play a tune. I d like to see how it works' And look over there there's n balloon Jfod can blow up as big as a tin pai!! Conic on Inside, Nancy, I want to look around." . Nancy did not have to be urged, you may be sure, lor hod not her Quick little eyes seen things, too a remarkable china doll with Joints, and a hat that wouldn't come off, B box of paints, and a whole washing set with real elothespins? In they went, and Joy of joys' There was everything in that wonderful won-derful store that heart (of a little is did 11 sjiiiop's hornpipe on one foot, j boy r girl eould wish. Marbles, kites and thingumbobs. Drums and horns and eanes wltli knobs, Jumping-Jaeks that worked on strings. Dolls and carts -- all sorts "f t hlngs. They went from counter, to coun-l ter. entranced at' .ill the things they : saw. Never oikc did the think of their errand. Off In his oave Wicked old Twelve 1 Toes did n sailor's hornpipe on" one i foot and a Spanish fandango on iln I other Then he kissed himself hea rtlly, 1 knew it, 1 knew It!" he cried, i "once get a ehild inside o a five-and-ten-cent store with a dime In his pocket and you'll mm r - t bin out It will take twice as loi i to gel two! liildren out. And as there aru about a hundred stores those Twins will spend about B year on that mountain, moun-tain, the way I count "Sure as you're living, i il marrj Princess Therma yet." (To 3B Continued 1 (Copyright 1J22. NBA Service.! |