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Show ADVENTURES OF TEE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERT RASTTOW A , Down to the onrth everybody was looking r the moon with long glasses OOMET-LEGS Gl i s 'EM 10 MOONS IX ONE NIGHT Mr. Pocrabout. tho Man-ln-the-' Moon, was lost. ' Nancy and Nick hunted and hunted. And the Weatherman, Mr. S'prinkle-Blow, S'prinkle-Blow, hunted and hunted. And the dream-fairies hunted and the sweep hunted and all tho people in th moon cities hunted. But Mr. Beerabont was as missing a Tommy Brown's front teeth. "I Just know that wicked old Comet-Lyegs Comet-Lyegs has hidden him somewhere," declared de-clared Nancy. Just then they camo to the house where Mr. Peerabout kept his handles for running the moon. And there wan Comet-LegS pulling out handles and putting them back and then pulling them all out at once and shoving them every way. "Ha. ha, ha:" he was roaring. "I'M be the earth people think I am a fine Man-ln-the-Moon' I'll give 'em a change. I'll give 'em 40 kinds o a moon In one night. 1 will." if course, mv dears, the moon was doing awful things. The Twins and Mr. Sprinkle-Ttlow could hardly keep th- ir fee with the Jerking. And evcry- body was as dizzy as If he'd been playing play-ing whlrllpeg. The moon cities were falling to pieces, towers tottering and chimneys falling clown and houses crumbling.' A moon-nuakc Is quite as bad as an earthquake Even the tops of the mountains were falling off. ' Down on the earth everybody was looking at the moon with Ion? glasses. "Mr. Peerahoufs gone plumb crazy !' they cried. "Just look at that: We'll have to put him out. "n. minute he gives us a new moon and the next minute an old one. "One time the moon .- dry and the next it's got Its corners down which means rain. iWe don't know whether to go hunting or fishing or what to do. Yes. sir. old Peerabout's lost "his senses." tin Be I "in ; ,n i i (Copyright. 1!'JL'. N K. Serice) |