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Show ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS 1 1 j Y OLIVE ROBERTS EAR TOW & . " N'anes found a knife ami -tai'tccl to -dice Everything Inside tho little house' I was handy as could be and soon Nancy land Nick were comfy as two bugs in a I posy. Nancy found bicad and butter .and ' nlco sweet milk on a shelf In tho cupboard, as well as some gooseberry goose-berry marmalade. "We'll have: the cako for dessert," she said The Twins sat down at a little round tablr, on two stubby chairs that just fitted and as they were as hungry as WOOdohUCks after a hard winter they were spon stuffing themselves them-selves All the whiu- the house talked down its chimney to them and out of the fireplace. And the Tw'ns told him about their adcivturei, how I they had started out to find tho lost phonograph rei cud on which were the words of Longhead, tho Wiseman, Wise-man, who lived at the third end of ! th earth, and how they were to Cross the Seven Mountains and stop the ouarrel between the Dldyevvera and the Korsknotts. I Soon they were ready for the cake. 1 taking it out of the basket so as not to touch the Oloth of Dreams that Twelve Toes had slyly tucked under it. I Nancy found a knife and started 'to cut a sllco when suddenly the knife struck something hard She tried another place, but the same , thing happened. "Goodness. It's as hard as a stovc-lld stovc-lld In the middle," she cried lm- ' pat lently, I Just then the house spoke again. "Could it be the lost record?" It I ajked. "If It is, it's easy to find out for 1 hae a phonograph In the hall." Now. mv dears, it was the record ' that was In tho cake, as we know, land with shouts of joy the Twins pulled it out. And in a minute It was on tho phonograph and -'.artinij to talk. But alas! A shred of the Cloth of 111 the i j 1 could say was: rI "Oh. I forgot! I had a me&s&g . iWWM V hat will I.-onghc-.'. BJJSJJ 'lie Wiseman, say? I forget every- p thing." i i o Be Continued) (Copyright, 1322, N"BA Service) v W |