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Show SP Daddy's 2ifoEveiir Fdiry Tale dy AARY GRAHAM BONNER MRS. COW'S SHOP "Moo, moo," said Mrs. Cow. "I think I have an idea." "Why, Mrs. Cow, why, Mrs. Cow." said Miss Brown Cow, "don't be saying such things unless you're sure you're right." "Moo," said Mrs. Cow, "I don't know whether the idea Is a good one or not, but at least, I have an idea." "Well, well, inoo, moo," said Miss Brown Cow, "that's pretty good. "When did you think It up? It has seemed to me that all this time I've been sitting here and day-dreaming and having a comfortable, restful chew, you have been asleep." "I was asleep a good deal of the time, but I've been having this idea a little at a time for several days now. Id that way one does not get tired out with too much thinking, and at the same time, one gets ideas slowly. "You see 1 have a little bit of an idea. It hardly amounts lo anything. Well, instead of getting all tired out trying to make it amount to something and to work over it, I just slop and say to myself: " 'Mrs. Cow, rest my dear. It will come to you in time. Don't worry, i my dear.' "And then I take my own advice. After all, that is always such good advice ad-vice to take. "Then I am sure I will be pleased. If I took the advice of others. I might please them, or again I might just "I Could Open a Shop." . make them feel that their opinion was the only thing anyway and that it was the only thing for me to take. "When I take my own advice I think to myself what good advice it Is lo take. "But to get back to the way 1 have of getting an idea. "Several days ago, it was around milking time. Morning milking time. "I was coming slowly down toward the pasture, stopping to nod at a flower here, and smile at u long blade of grass there. "The rest of you were all around. The dog was nearby. The farmer's son was, too. But I paid little attention atten-tion to anything In particular. "I came along and I thought to myself my-self a little bit of the flowers that were in the fields: the pretty wild flowers. "Well, that was about as much of an Idea as 1 had at that time. "Then another time, a 1 1 1 tie later, I was thinking, and 1 got as far as thinking that the (lowers In the fields were prettier than any of the flow ers I saw on hats. "That was as much as I thought ol at that time. "Then a Utile later I thought lo my self that a wild-llowcr hat shop would he wonderful. "There could be mushroom-shape, hats and all sorts of dl.ferent shapes we could copy that we see around. "Then we could gather the flowers with our ever-moving mouths, and we could tlx up the hats as we lie al.oui under the tiees hi the mornings and Ihe afternoons. We could meet at differ ml parls of the meadow and pasiure and have , hat-making clubs. I "Then I could open a shop wiih all j the hals around. I thought that par: I of the pasture w'.iere I here are the j trees wi'.h the low branches wouij be . u go. d place. I We could hang the hats on tin i branches and show them off lhal way. "And I'd be the shop keener, aim after the business got Marled I woulO jut how and smile ami moo al un customers while the others- the ones who would be my assistants would do tV.e work. "Then maybe 1 conn arnru u. o.i-t electric lights In the. barn Just as lie . COWs down the road have in then barn." ' Goodness." said Miss Cow. "d.mi think of pulling yourself m all ll-sl trouble- and wi.h us included ,n ,h. work, too! "Wait for the farmer to pin In tin j ,.e.-trlc lights. 1 "-elieve he will, he I fore long." ! "And in the tne::ni::ne. acre.-.. J.r.- ; cow quiek.y. "" " i lovelv am! t"" weather so Id. ah I ! d-n't' believe I'll bother af:ei ad. |