Show VISIT TO ANT VILLAGE WITH j I 1 az 9 0 U r tp co I 1 flu the sandman and twins call to visit the apple factory mother dearie said johnnie one night after he and jessie hid had crawled up in the big chair before the fire place m what hat makes some apples green when they are ripe and other apples green when they are greena mother dearle dearie hugged her little twins close to her sido side and smiled into the fire and just then there came a little pop in the fireplace and there in a cloud of black soot stood the sandman laughing and bobbing his bead head at the children seems to me I 1 heard beird something laid eald about apples as I 1 cime down the chimney said the sandman yc said jessie johnnie was just asking mother dearie why it is that some red apples are arc green and some green apples are red dibut didn t either said johnnie 1 I asked her why green apples are green and red too don dent t quarrel about that because we me can easily go and find out all about it said the sandman so he pulled out ot of his bis pocket the very same two long pointed caps with bells on ell their ends that tha the twins had vorn v orn before and they clapped them on their heads and there they were no bigger than the sandman the took eich each one by the tha hand just as he had done dona before but this time they did not skip up the chimney in the tha smoke the library window was open an and d through it came a long level sunbeam suri beam from tho the big red sun iun going to sleep over behind the orchard the sunbeam looked just like a won darful bertul road all made out of gold and the first thing they knew they w were ere up on that golden road and there was the cutest little golden automobile the they had ever eier dreamed of it was no b big ig ger than halt an orange but it was waa plent big enough tor for the tha sandman and the twins so they hopped in and ad the sandman cranked up the engine and awai awa they went like the wind the sandman steered the golden automobile straight flit along the golden r sunbeam road and before long the road haa ha to mike a little turn to g go 0 around the trunk of a big old apple tree this Is the apple factory said the sandman and thea the all climbed out of 0 the automobile and stretched their legs they were way up high in the branches because you know the sun beam road runs right through the air and hardly ever touches the ground there la Is no time to lose II if wo we are to spi all of 0 the factory and get back to mother dearie before sleepy time called the sandman as be slid down one of the branches toward the big trunk the tm twins ins slid dom down n after him and I 1 expect they wore holes in their bt blocking doing it down at the alce where the branch joined the trunk ot the tree there was a little bell knob and the sandman gave this a great pull in ft a moment the twins heard a tin little creaking noise just like a door swinging in the wind mind and there stood a little man much smaller than the sandman all dressed in a pretty lull of green and all wet with mith apple juice hullo sandy how are ye I 1 he called and opened the door wide I 1 im in pretty well jackle jackie said the sandman 1 I thought that I 1 would bring johnnie johnnee and jesle over oer and take them through the factory all doht come on in squeaked lickle of course tho the inside of tile the apple tree was very dark ind ou and I 1 rould could not have seen anthina an thing after the door was shut but the twins see bee as well as if it had been out f doors because of their magic caps rhey found the inside of the tree all bollow and there here was ass a tiny liny little e A ladder running clear from the top to the bottom down the gaddet they went jackie first then johnnie Johnn le next jessie and then the sandman it was a prett long climb because ther the were mere so small but they finally reached the bottom and there was a large room all filled up with mith pipes that looked just like water pipes some of these pipes were yell yellow 0 w and some were white and some me were r e green in color and they ran in every ever Gi just as aa johnnie was about to ask the sandman what the pipes were for or little jackie turned around and squeaked the green pipes can cam the green juice up to the leaves and the yellow ellow pipes carry the ellow juice for the inside of 0 ohp blossoms and at aft the blossoms are gone they carry the juice tor for the green apples the white pipes carry the sugar up to sweeten the apples in the fall fali usually they are empty because they only have to carr can sugar up for or a few days every year but just now we me have I 1 a few apples that are not quite sweet sm beet enough so I 1 am feeding them a little more sugar IN hile he was saying this in his funny little oice boice he turned to a sort of tool chest and pulled out a little green cup made out of an acorn shell he held the cup under a faucet m which was wa 9 fastened to one of the white pipes and filled it with fresh sweet a apple P pa juice right from the factory each of them had bad a fine drink and jackie then led the way down into a long sort of tunnel which twisted twiste d and turned for ever so tar far until finally the passage way in it was too small for them tot togo go any further this is the end of 0 one of 0 the big roo roots is and we are way under the ground now said jackie I 1 thought you might like to see sea where the jutca juice comes from there are a whole lot of little suckers at the end ot of each root and they suck the water right out of the ground and the roots arid and leaves turn it into juice tor for the blos som boms 9 and lea leases es and branches and apples after all of the food has been taken out of the juice it all runs gutc the leaves and the blow it out into the air just like your own breath on a cold morning this one apple factory up tip enough water to nil fill a cistern halt half full every day they now returned to the ladder and jessie sighed as aa she ehe looked up at the long climb ahead of her As soon as they were all on the ladder the apple man told them to hold on tight and then he punched a little button tt hen he did this the ladder began to shoot up to the top 0 of the tree just I 1 as if it had bad been an elevator and be fore they knew it they were back at the little door when they stepped outside it was almost dark and both the sun bean roid road and the olden bolden automobile had bad disappeared the sandman reached up and broke off a yellow apple leaf that grew just over his her herl 11 come on children he called take hold of the stem of this thin leaf m with ith me arid and we ahl be home boon so they all held onto the stem of the big apple icae arid and along came a big putt puff of wind and sent cent them whirl ing leaf and all they spun round and round and then they spun over and a not over and the wind blew tho the leaf big high b abone the house bouse the twins began to feel very an the sandman had to put his arm abowd adolid jessie to krep keep her from falling and then all of a sudden came a whirling gust of wind and whirled them down beside the and through the bedroom window and right smack lato into their own little W white hite beds cc copyright by jodh D 3 sow boef |