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Show ADVENTURES OF m TWINS cr olive noescTo nAKTor K "No," sac! ;h; oquarj mr.n. "We're l! different." Mo Mar- .. io, B iiotiit-r Goose'; a star, a Li : i.d .,n.- and Mee It 'moft any ri.:;ht when WP i'n'' 1 "J l.ru ,., W-'- "' r go acjuure man who stared at them iin ai most unmannerly way. "Hello." called Nick. "Is thLs Mars'" "Yes." answered the square man In a Jerky voice. "Well, we're hunting for Mother! Goose'a broom?' Nick told him. 'Did, JOU 560 IT?" "Once," answered ihe SQonrc man stiffly. "W as it lately?" askfid N'anev eagerly. eager-ly. "Yes," answered the man. "Only about a hundred years agu. She swept a e-obweb off my left eyebrow. 1 wish she would come back. There's another, cobweb on my right eye-brow and one. I tear. In each of my ears, i can't bear as well as I did a thousand years ago." "Goodness alive," gasped Nick. "A thousand years?" "Gracious," exclaimed Nancy "Are ou as old as that ."' "Older." said the square man gravely. grave-ly. "About a million. I'm only stone now. When I'm two million I'll turn i to Iron." And what will you do when you're tiiree million" aked Nick. 'I forged" said the man. "I'll have to ask somebody. Perhaps I'll Just dry up and blow away." "This is a queer place." declared Nancy. "Is everybody like you, poor kblng?" "No," said the square man. "We're all different." Copyright, 1922. NEA Service) (To Be Continued) |