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Show OlOOY'S 111 EVEHRIG P lFAlRYTALEll.f MarGraharnDDnner COPYVGffT SY tVfJTffCfl fYZSKJPAPFJi UffOT THE STOREROOM Two owls lived In a soft feathered l nest in the big woods. Mrs. Owl. After a time they got a little tired of talking and scolding and hunting and midnight mid-night parties, so Mrs. Owl, who was always sav-ing sav-ing odds and ends, thought It would make them very rich and happy if they had a store. "What," asked Mr. Owl, "a store!" "Yes," replied Mrs. Owl, as she smoothed her feathers and polished her back with a bit of bark. "It will not only be a store, but a supper room, she added. "Whatever do you mean?" said Mr. Owl. "You know," continued Mrs. Owl, "that in the world where people live they have parties. "There is nothing new about that. Don't we have parties? Yes." Mrs. Owl always answered all her own questions when she had something some-thing most important to say, and when she did not want to have anyone interrupt in-terrupt her or disagree with her. "And so, if we have parties in the woods, think what a great help it will be to all the woud animals and the fairies and brownies and gnomes if we have a supper room attached to our stores where after the parlies the wood creatures can come and have supper." Mr. Owl sat up very straight and said : "To-wit, to-who," or It sounded very much like that. What he meant was that he thought it an excellent scheme. And he went on to tell Mrs. Owl that she could fix up ail the dishes for the supper and decorate the tables and he would go forth and hunt for the good things to eat. The store was started rk'ht away. The animals came to buy their things In the daytime and as Mr. and Mrs. Owl were asleep they would simply taken them away and not pay for them at the time. 1 That didn't bother Mr. and Mrs. Owl I at nil, though. They wanted to have such a fine store that all their things would be taken, and they left notes for the little lit-tle iiniinaN. saying: "Take all you like. We must sleep ! and think up more wonderful things to 1 do for you. "As for pay we don't want It. We're already to be envied for our knowledge. "We don't even have to go to school and are always cleverer than those wiio rlo go !" 1 The animals were nitich amused at ' the conn-it of Mr. and Mrs. Owl, but ! they had to admit that lin-ir store w ;ls a great success. suc-cess. . And as for their supper room. It Kill perfect ! l'.very evening It was very gay, with the chatter of many of the wood a n 1 in u 1 H and the fairies, after dim-rent parlies and frolics. frol-ics. Mrs. ( iwl made t h e most delicious deli-cious g o o d I e s, and nlwiiys made the tables look , . I frig Ho Put on a Big Whito Apron. wry ntlriiclhe with wild flowers. As for Mr. Owl, he pill on n his while apron and n white hat unci waited wait-ed on nil who came to the supper-rooin. supper-rooin. find often he would niiike wise, wise sn'i'ihes for the benellt of all iiround him. |