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THE LAUGHING DUMPLING
Part II
IEAVING the second Jizo, she
-J laughed and ran on, still crying
out, “My dumpling! My dumpling!
Where is that dumpling of mine?”
And she came to a third Jizo, and
asked it:
"0 dear Jizo, did you see my dump
ling?”
But Jizo said:
"Don’t talk about dumpling now.
Here is the Oni cominir. Squat down
here behind my sleeve and don’t make
any noise.”
Presently the Oni came very close
and stopped and bowed to Jizo, and
said:
“Good day, Jizo San!”
Jizo said good day, too, very polite
ly
Then the Oni suddenly sniffed the
air two or three times in a suspicious
way and cried out: “Jizo San, Jizo
San! I smell a smell of mankind
somewhere, don’t you?”
“Oh!’, said Jizo, “perhaps you are
mistaken.”
“No, no!” said the Oni. after snif
fing the air again; “I smell a smell
of mankind.”
Then the old woman could not help
laughing—"Te-lie-he!”—and the Oni
immediately reached down his big,
hairy hand behind Jizo’s sleeve and
pulled her out, still laughing, “Te-he
he!”
“Ah! ha!” cried the Oni.
Then Jizo said:
“What are you going to do with
that good ole. woman? You must not
hurt her.”
“I won’t,” said the Oni; “but I will
take her home with me to cook for
us.”
“Te-he-he!” laughed the old woman.
“Very well,” said Jizo, “but you
must really be kind to her. If you are
not I shall be very angry.”
“I won’t hurt her at all,” promised
the Oni, “and she will only have to do
a little work for us every day. Good
by, Jizo San.”
Then the Oni took the old woman
far down the road till they came to a
wide, deep river, where there was a
boat. He put her into the boat and
took her across the river to his house.
It was a very large house. He led her
at once into the kitchen and told her
to cook some dinner for himself and
the other Oni who lived with him, and
he gave her a small wooden rice pad
dle and said:
“You must always put only one
grain of rice into the pot, and when
you stir that one grain of rice in the
water with this paddle the grain will
multiply until the pot is full.”
So the old woman put just one grain
of rice into the pot, as the Oni told
her, and began to stir it with the pad
dle, and as she stirred the one grain
became two, then four, then eight,
then sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four
and so on. Every time she moved the
paddle the rice increased in quantity,
and in a few minutes the great pot
was full.
After that the funny old woman
stayed a long time in the house of the
Oni, and every day cooked for him and
all of his friends. The Oni never hurt
| or frightened her, anil her work was
made quite easy by the magic paddle,
although she had to cook much more
than any human being eats, for an
Oni eats much more than any human
' being.
But she felt lonely ancl always
wished to go back to her own little
1 house and make dumplings; and one
day, when the Oni was out somewhere,
she thought she would run away.
(Concluded in next week’s issue.)
j COLORED OMAHA LAWYER
ENTERS SUPREME COURT
Washington, P. C., March 11.—
Lieutenant H. P. Pinkett, lawyer of
Omaha, was admitted today to prac
tice before the United States supreme
court. He says he is the first Colored
man from the state of Nebraska to
scale this legal height.
Lieutenant Pinkett is back from an
eight months’ stay in France. Before
his return to Omaha he will visit his
aged parents in Virginia. Pinkett says
he will be glad to return to Nebraska
and says he doesn’t want to stray
very far away from it again. After
his return he will make several
speeches for the next liberty loan.
O R EC, O M A NS DE M A NDI NO
EQUAL CIVIL RIGHTS
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Portland, Ore., March 13.-—The Col
ored people of Oregon, the population
of which has increased in large num
bers in the last two years, are much
incensed over the failure of the legis
lature to pass the “Equal Rights” bill,
which was finally voted down by a
vote of 31 to 24. The hill was to
extend equal privileges, w'hich even
without a law* should be denied, in
hotels, theaters, anil other public
places regardless of race. The decla
ration is being loudly made that there
will be a day of reckoning.
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CHICKADEE
Penethrestea atricapillus
Length, about five and one-fourth
Inches.
Range: Resident in the United
States (except the southern half east
of the plains), Canada, and Alaska.
Habits and economic status: Be
cause of its delightful notes, its con
fiding ways, and its fearlessness, the
chickadee is one of our best known
bl, s. It responds to encouragement,
and by hanging within its reach a
constant supply of suet the chickadee
can be made a regular visitor to the
garden and orchard. Though insig
nificant in size, titmice are far from
being so from the economic stand
point, owing to their numbeis and ac
tivity. While one locality is being
scrutinized for food by a larger bird,
ten are being searched by the smaller
species. The chickadee’s food is made
up of insects and vegetable matter
in the proportion of seven of the
former to three of the latter. Moths
and caterpillars are favorites and
form about one-third of the whole.
Beetles, ants, wasps, bugs, flies, grass
hoppers, and spiders make up the rest.
The vegetable food is composed of
seeds, largely those of pines, with a
few of the poison ivy and some weeds.
There are few more useful birds than
the chickadees.
The New Way.
"Don’t he in such a hurry to suc
ceed. son. Look at me. I began lift
at the bottom."
"Well, I've been In France, and 1 be
gan by going over the top.”
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