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CHAPTER XX.
Fatty Coon's Strange Notion.
Jimmy Rabbit had persuaded Fatty
Coon that h« ought to take some
exercises to make hitnself thinner.
The fatter the slower! ' Jimmy Rab
bit had said. And he had pointed out
how it was actually dangerous to he
as fat as Fatty was; because one
never knew when old dog Spot was
going to chase him.
“Come!" cried .Jimmy Rabbit. "Let
me teach you my first exercise "
"What's that like?" Fatty inquired.
"It's the one that almost lets you
see the back of your own neck," Jim
my explained
Fatty Coon shook liis head.
"1 don’t care to learn that exercise,”
he said.
"Why not?”
' I m afraid I d be frightened, ’ lie
objected. “If 1 did see the bavk of
my on n neck, J wouldn't know It
'VVh^ 3*"rt you toy, 'Fiv«! Slat * 5 f Tent
Right?"* Tatty Coon tiket
has mine. 1 might tliink it belonged
to somebody else. How would I know
I was myself.' .No' l wouldn't try
thsr exercise—not for anything.''
''Then I'll teach you No. 2, ' Jimmy
told him.
"Which one is that'."'
"That’s the one yon do when you're
hungry. It takes away your appe
tite."
"Not that one!" Fatty Coon bawled. :
"I wouldn't have any use for that
exercise. Don't you know one lhat
wilt double my appetite? That's the
kind that would interest me.
"My goodness! You don't want lo
get still fatler, do you?" Jimmy Rab
bit asked him. "Haven't 1 been try
ing to show you how it's not sale
to be too fat?”
"That's so. ] forgot." Fatty said •
sheepishly. "But 1 don't believe arfy
of your exercises would suit my style,
i shall have to do some different ones.
I shall have to invent exercises of
my own.”
"Very went" Jimmy Rabbit agreed
"That may be the best way. Do exer
cises of your own. Do exercises, by
all means!"
"I will," said Fatty Coon. “And |
I'll begin tills very evening. I'll go
down to the henhouRe—-"
"Yes!" Jimmy interrupted. "And
v hat will you do ihere—climb up on
Ihe roof? That would jie a fine exer
cise for you. Are you going to do
that?"
"I will—if tliHt s ihe only way I
can get insidg the henhouse.'’ Fatty
l old'’hint. If 1 can grab about ten
1st pulleis for my supper it will be
,'*isl. the sort of exercise 1 need. It
"ill put a little more fat on me: and
that's whar m,v style calls for."
Jimmy Rabbit shook his head in
despair. He saw there was no use
in arguing with Fatty Oocm.
"Pardon me if t don't stop to talk
with you any longer just now,” .Tim
my said politely. "I haven't finished
m.v exercises." And then he began
lo wave his paws, whirling (hem
about his head while he counted.
"One! Two! Three! Four! One! Two!
Three! Four!"
' Why don't you say, 'Five! ^<ix!
Seven! Eight!?'” Fatty Coon asked
• him. "Myself, 1 expect to count as
high a* ten. down at the henhouse."
(Copyright. !92:'.)
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Perplex
• By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
V (liil's Problems.
Dear Miss Fairfax: "hat would
you do in a case like this: I am
19. While down on the farm last
\ ear met a hoy of 20. lie wrote to
meafter I came home. Just friendly
letters passed back and forth. Then
one day came a letter from him ask
ing me to marry him. What should I
do—stop writing to him or write apd
tell him 1 want to consider him as
one of my friends only and make him
understand there's no love between
him and 1"
Second. While ice.skating this year
I met an awful nice boy of 22. 1
skated with him all evening and he
asked to take me home, so 1 let him.
promising lo see him out at the park
the next night. Well, I kept my
promise I was at the park before
he was and met a boy friend of mine,
and we were skating together when
lie (oniPs along, so X had to go and
skate with him. When he asked tfi
take me home the second time X told
him my other friend asked me first,
lie seemed sort of peeved about it.
Didn't 1 do right in going with the
one that asked me first? They’ aig
lroth nice boys and X like them both.
Third, every morning I awake with
a-terrible headache. Wbat causes
them? MART ANN.
My dear Mary Ann. if a man asks
you to marry him and you don't wish
to do so. of course you must t£ll him
no. That's simple, ijjn't it?
Seconal, you should have kept the
engagement with the young man with
whom you first made it.
Third? you should consult a doctor
about your headaches. Eyes are fre
quently the cause, sometimes consti
pation. due to lack of exercise or im
proper food, but there ate many other
cn uses.
I min handed Methods.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Will, you kind
ly give some of your advice. I fiave
a boy friend who goes with my girl
friend and has been going with her
for the last eight months. She went
home for t'hristmas about 125 miles
from here While she has been gone
this boy friend of hers comes to me
for advice, (lie is 22 years, she is 20
years). *
fie wants to know how be can
make this girl friend of his and mine
to gradually think less of him. hut
not by any means hurt her feelings.
She does not know about this and
1 will not tell her till J receive your
advice.
She likes him retfl well; lie does, too,
but lie is afraid if lie keeps on going
with her that she will expect a pro
posal. Thanking you very much.
PETE (DELLA)
Is tliis boy so weak and dishonest
Dial be would deliberately try to
make this girl like him lesss. just be
cause he fears she will expect a pro
liosal? Fine, worthy people don't do
things that way. If lie doesn't want
to get too serious with her, he should
stop going with her. but lie shoulH
not act in a deceitful, underhanded
manner abolit it. If r were you I
wouldn't connive with this boy against
a good girl friend.
(>em gabelle: \Jnen a 111^1 meets
a, woman in tile street wjth™hom lie
is acquainted and is desirous of speak
ing with her, lie lifts his hat and,
coming to her side, walks beside her.
If he meets a woman friend walking
alone, or aceotirpunied by a woman
to whom he is at once Introduced or
whom lie already knows, he is priv
ileged to ask permission to accom
pany the lady to her destination.
Should she Miter or stop at a church,
ha holds the door open for her and
lifts his hat as she passes in, but he
may not fuilow. except at her invita
tion or when that is his destination
also. When a man nr 'woman meet
in tlie street, tlie woman nitty prefer
to stand and listen to what her
acquaintance lias to say and may
even prolong the conversation: a
mati, however, even when meeting
his mother or sister, should not as
sume this privilege, hut leave the wo
man to take the initiative. /( man has
no rigid to join a womanv on the
street if she is accompanied by a
gentleman whom he does not know.
Friends who meet in the street and
halt for conversation should draw well
to one side of the walk.
Blue Eyes: 1’erhaps you were loo
hasty in breaking your engagement.
Tf you truly care for the man, you
should make an effort to strengthen
his character and not throw him off
with a first mistake. Why not talk
tilings over with him and see if you
can't reconcile yourselves on some
good, strong, permanent basis.
Mary .lean: Write me again some
time. even though you do write back
hand. My Christmas mail was so
heavy l did not ge$ to yours in time
to make tlie suggestion you wished.
My Marriage Problems
Adela Garrison's New Phase of “Revelations of a Wife."
The Double Assurance Don Kamon
(iare Madge That They Were Safe j
From Dr. Pettit’s Interference.
For a bewildered niinnte or two I
• i ould not imagine what Ilarry 1'nder 1
wood meant me lo understand by his
request for a piece of paper and a ,
string to wrap up the pieces of wire
which he had managed that no one be
sides myself should see. But mechan
ically I produced the articles for
which he asked—it is my invariable
practice to carry with me tlie wrap
ping for an extia parcel—and watched
him with puzzled eyes as lie turned
nia back on us, speedily made a small,
compact parcel, and came bac k to the
side of Brother Bill, who had resum
ad his seat at the wheel of the ear.
"I have so great a fear that 1 will
forget this,” be said suavely, "that .1
wish to confide it to you now. When
th* gentleman who arrived in so
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great a hurry this morning left in like
wise haste, he lost this from his car.
I am a motorist myself, ami know he
will need it before be tins gone very
far. Unfortunately, it has slipped my
memory up to now. Will you be so
kind as to convey this to t.;e good
lady of the hotel and ask her ti give
it to the so-hurried gentleman with
my compliments, should he miss it?"
Madge Is Kelieved.
That Brother Bill was puzzled by
this rambling request was plainly to
be seen. But the only answer be made
was a laconic “sure thing," as he put
the parcel in his pocket. But m>'
heart had climbed rapidly into its
place again, and was pumping with
relief and joy. I did not even need
Harry Underwood's significant re
mark as he stood, hat in hand, by the
tonneau door as Brother Bill turned
his switch preparatory vto starting on
the time killing drive which Mr. Un
derwood had arranged for Claire- and
me.
‘‘I know that it is the custom of la
dies to worry greatly." he said. "But
1 can assure you that you will return
in plenty of time for the train and
that everything will be all right.”
He stresed the last words ever so
slightly, and 1 forgave him many
things as the full realization of what
hp had done came to me.
For I am motorist enough to know
that the pieces of wire belonged to
the ignition of a motor car, and I was
not too dull to realize that when Mr.
Underwood had run the car around
the house out of the possible sight
of Claire Foster, he—to whom every
part of a motor was like a child's
alphabet blocks—bad taken the wires
from the car in such a manner that
Dr. Pettit even with the hely of a
garage mechanic, would not be able
to start his engine until he had the
missing parts.
"What a Queer Old Duck."
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1 had learned from Mrs. Barker, and
Mr. Underwood had arranged to keep
him Engaged until "almost our train
time. I guessed that when we re
turned he would make some excuse to
detain the driver so that he shtjnld not
start back to the Barker house until
we actually had boarded the train.
And in the meantime Dr. Pettit would
fee unable to do anything but rage.
If I had expressed myself unre
strainedly as our modern psychoan
alysts advise, I should have shouted
with laughter and joy, and would
have effusively thanked Mr. Under
wood. Instead Imurmured a conven
tional. “Thank you, you are very
kind," and the next minute Brother
Bill's motor car was carrying Claire
and me away from the station.
We rode several minutes in silence/
I reveling in the freedom from worry
which Harry Underwood’s little speech
had given me. The sound of Claire
Foster's voice, tremulous, uneasy,
made me realize that she had not the
certainty of Dr. Pettit's inability to
find us that 1 possessed.
"Aren't you afraid .that Herbert may
by some chance find out our road?"
she asked. ' You know what a demon
driver he is. Jle would be over to
Nantucket in no time, if he once found
the road."
"Not a chance in the world." I re
turned truthfully. "Mrs. Barker gave
him to understand that we had gone
to Caldwin and he'll go straight there,
that is, if thane queer things from his
car which the old gentleman picked
up, do not delay-him even longer. The
old chap seemed to think they were
necessary." *
"What a queer old duck he is,” she
commented, and I saw that she had
brightened perceptibly with the assur
ance 1 had given her.
Indeed, she made no further refer- j
enee to the physician during the rest j
of our drive, and I think she was as
iclaxed and rested as I w hen promptly
at the end of the hour Harry l/nder
wood had named, Brother Bill attain
drew up his tar at the station plat
form at Nantucket
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