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Show ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Y OLIVE ROBERTA RAATON t -4 1 p - Mr, I'ccia' "in chuckled until in- long beard shook ami the top of his 1 1 : I i . unite i'd Mr. I'eerubout, the Man-in-lhc-Moon, shook some his magic powder over the Twins out of his wonderful ruby shaker and said some words like this: "Looney, mooney, shiver and sneeze. "Up here on the moon you'll surely freeze, "Now, floury poMilery. work your charm, I "Kcp Nancy and Nick both nice and v;i rm." Instantly the cold left their bones and a nice warm glow seemed to spread all through thi m. That feel better0" asked the Moon-Man. Moon-Man. "Oh, much better, thank you." nodded nod-ded Nancy, who was beginning to like the queer, ragged old fellow and his ciueer ways of getting things turned around. "And now." paid Mr. Pcrabout. put- i ting his shaker away and sitting down I himself, " won't you tell me about I yourselves, and how it happened that j the Fairy Queen sent ym to help me ' Or would ou rather hear about mo and the moon-people first?" "Oh, yes sir! If you please, sir!" begged Nick, who was dying of curios- . lty. "Things here seem to be so so ! different from what they are on the earth And Nancy and I nr., all mixed I up. Perhaps you'd better tell us all I about it so we won't make mistakes while we a.ro here." Mr Pecrabout chuckled until his lon.T bear1 shook a)d tho top of his l.old head grew quite red. He winked I wisely at the Magical Mushroom, who had come with the. Twins and who was about lo take his departure and go back to his duties on the earth. "Well, well well! Aren't they wise though!" cried their host. "When you go back to the Fairy Queen's palace, I Mr Mushroom, please tell her that she 1 couldn't have sent better" people to help me. "An ounce of sense is better than i ten of wisdom and these children seem to have enough for a regiment Besides I have enough wisdom for ev-eryboely, ev-eryboely, being half a million vcars old. Now I'll tell you my story." (To i'c Continued.) (Copyright, 192J. N'EA Service) |