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Show ;j ADVENTURES F THE TWINS 1 1 j I STY OLIVE nOB&KTft BARTOW . J k , , .. i y So tin v tiptoed over and pecked in. The next place Nancy and Nick j came to on the Tinky-Wlnkle Star j was a great big oven, largo enough for you and mo and some of our friends to sleep in. "Sh!" whispered Nancy. "Perhaps Flap-Doodle, Ihe purple fairy, is hld- ing Inside and we can get tho wand , he stole from the Fairy Queen." So they tiptoed over as softly as Velvet mice and peeked in. But what do you suppose? It was a meeting they' beheld. A meeting of a dozen Tlhlcy-Wlhklers with big cars and colored a bright orange, all sit-ting sit-ting in a circle inside the oven. "It's an outrage, I call it!" said one Tinky,-Winkler, fiercely, to his neighbor. neigh-bor. "Worse than that! It's two outrages," out-rages," said a second. "Just as soon as we got our handsome town-hall built, Flap-Doodle sent us a bill for taxes, as big as a bed sheet. How can wo pay them? We've no munev left." "Yes." said a third Tlnky-Winkler. "Ev( r Blnce Flap-Doodle got that new, 'stick of his that ho says is so lmpoi I tant, he thinks M" can do everything 1 wish we could get it," "We'll help you:" cried Nick. "We me afttr Flap-Doodle, too. He stole, the Fairy Queen's magic wand and! we're trying to get it. Won't you i-omci OUt of the bake oven so we can talk?" Bake-ovcn? Hear the child," cried' a Tinky-Winkler. We're insulted!" exclaimed another "We demand an apology;" thunder-Sd thunder-Sd a third and the Tinky-Wlnklers came tumbling out f their oven llke marbles out of a bog. "Well. Just look at It!" polnied' Nick. "What is It, then?" All the Tinky-Vt inklers turned and) looked. "Oqpdness!" th' y gasped "Flap-Doodle "Flap-Doodle has waved his wand :md Changed our town-hall into bake-oven. What shall we do?" (To Be Continued) (Copyright. 1921: NEA Service) |