pedal Page tm Tlhe B9s Otoy Luttle . . 8 ' 1 !- 7 - : . . .. i s i jr. t XI 1 ' Stories by Our Little Folks r ;; (Prise.) . Fairy Land." By Marl Tracy. ) I l Old. 1J0S Part Avtnus, freniont, Nob. , Dear Busy Bees:, Have you ever been to fairy land? I went just th other night.,,1 lived in a house made of brick ice cream. This house was just for summer, for they had no winter, you know. My room was made of cookies, and oh! how good they were! The sidewalks were made of brickl of jce cream. You will miss a lot if you don't go to fairy land with me. I will tell you the road to take. When mother says go to bed now, don't say wait a little longer, but with a good will say all right, mother, and you will go to fairy land. .' Honorable Mention. '". Little Marie. Oltfa BranUr, Afed .. Spanear., Nab. Dear Busy Bee: This is the' first letter I have written to you. I like your page very much and enjoy reading it : ' - ' Long ago there lived ts little girl whose name was Marie. 1 Marie had .been sick in bed for over three months. Marie loved her parents very much and she lso loved her home and pets. One day Marie was worse and the doctor said that he could not' save her. She died about 3 o'clock in the , afternoon. Her mother was very sad and grieved very much. Marie's mother lived for. manx years, and she also died. .Marie and 'her mother met in . heaven. . :,, . . This is not a true story. wish very much to see my let ter in print Ned the Donkey. ri"y4 Bennett, Aged . slot Harrison Street, South Side. Dear Busy Bee:- Ned was a don kejc He had a kind master. One day Ned had a heavy load. He had 10 miles t6 go with it. He trudged n and on. He came upon a yftunger donkey frolicking in a pasture. The young iolikey had a good time, hut Ned knew that some day he would have to work, too. Ned became tired before., reaching home. He wuld like to lay down, but knew he could not. because he knew his master wanted the load. He reached home before long and had some frwh, sweet pats. The next day "he did not hav to work all day and he had a good rest . . My Pst Dog. By Qertruda Cooper, As I, Sutherland, ffeb. ; Dear Busy Bee I am going to tell ypu about -my pet dog. She i 6 years old.he is two years younger than I am. Her name is "Towier." She is afraid of storms. Whenever the storms arc bad. she eomes up stairs and wakes me up. Towser and I rim races' every day. Sometimes Towser beats and some times I beat. We have lots of fun. 1 How the Robin Got Its Red Breast By Leon Numbers. Age IS. Plalnvlew, Neb. Far away in the north'and where all is snow and ice and it is always cold long, long ago there was only a fire. A hunter'a'nd his little boy kerrt this (ire burning day and night One day the hunter be came ill" and said to his boy: You must watch the fire, no matter what happens to me. Keep -it burring brightly and watch it niglu and day, lest the White Bear come to de-. ftroy it." - So the brave -little boy watched the fire. But after many days and nights, the poor boy was worn out and he fell asleep. The White Bear was watching "nearby and when the boy fell asleep he came and blew the fire out. . Jt happened that there was a robin In a tree overhead. WJien the White 'Bear had gone away, the robin no ticed a spark of fire that was left He flew down and began to fan this Spark with his wings. . Soon it arose and became a large flame. It scorched the robin's breast, but he kept on fanning it Soon the boy woke up and, the robin flew away. When he (had flown away he noticed that his breast had turned red. ' .-; ' A Sailor Trua. By Fra-acea r.nrdlck. Aged t Tea". Ord, Neb. ..." .. . Teddy was a sailor boy. brave and true. He went to fight in France and wort a uniform of "blue. Teddy was a sailor.. His father had been, a sailor, apd was killed in the war. That was the reason be wanted to be a sailor. He had enlisted one year ago. He had been gone 20 years and never returned, When he did get home his mother had died. Then he got married and lived happy, I hope tome of the Busy Bees write to me. A Nur Bee. LtUiaq Blpper, Asa 18. Usceoia. Neb., irom .(Baby Belle to Aunt Belle.) syear Aunt Belle: Did you know I rr A had lot of toes right at the end of . J if mv ft Tlia. ... ...... ... BI.U fUtl W&UL. But I cannot pull them off for I've tried and tried. Taere'a a new tooth in my mouth. Xhere isn't anybody else in the Bouse who has a tooth But oh I, How their fingers tasted. I tasted every one's fingers in the house and even Uncle Jsck's. Papa wants to drop 'me to the floor, and break me. I know he does because he took me up in his arms apd I was afraid he mk'ht droo me, so I caught him by his whiskers and oh, how be. did holler. And I know that Jt I was to fall I' would break, and mamma couldn't put me together and she wouldn't have any darling. Well, ray dear Aunt Belle, goodby, v Your BABY BELLE. I wish some of the. Busy Bees would write to me. will answer all my letters. A little Nurse. By Edna Mae Sanderson, age . Colon. - Neb. . I am 9 years old and my mother calls me her lije nurse.- for I have to take care of my little brother that is 2 months old. Schopl will soon commence. My sister and brother and I go to school. I am glad 4hzt school will start I will be in the fourth;grade this year. W411, I will say good-by, Busy Bees. ' A Snake. By Baiel Obermann, Age 1J, Snyder, Neb. Lenjoy reading the Busy Bee page very much. I am going to join your hive. I am now going to tell you about a snake. As I was going to get the cattle.. snake crawled ; right over , my . foot. I fainted and mother came and carried mc to the house. Well, as .ray letter to getting long, I will close.. , ' A Hat Caiollne Mlrasky. pteet, umona. School. SH South Twelfth Neb. Adged 11 Dear Busy Bees: J saw my story ui pe uee, ana I was giaa to see it there I am in the Fifth A. I go to Lincoln, School, my teacher's narct' is Miss Nelty. I'like her very Piuch I have- one brother and on sifter. I would be very etod if Uome of the Busy Bees would wr;te to me. I will close now be;ause my letter is getting long Good bye, Busy Bees. ; . , , , By ' My Pet Dog. Elaine fwoboda, A red t Teari, Verdiere. Keb. Dear Busy Bee: this is the first time I have written. I have a pet dpg named Prince. He is a Scotch Collie. My father bought him in Omaha and had him shipped to Verdigre. He is a very pretty dog, and everyone admire? him. He will stand on his hind legs and beg for food. We take hint swimming evefy h . -X- " time we go. He loves M swim. Prince is 2 years old. Dear Busy Bees, I would like to join yourhivf. i A Colorado Bee. By Annabel Hosa, Age IV. Yuma, Colo. Dear Busy Be"es: I read the chil dren's stories every Sunday and think they are just splendid. , I am 10 years old and am in th fifth grade.. My teacher's name is .Miss Cleavland. I think she is very nice, I will write story some other -time. - - . April Rain. By Nellie Cowrll. Age 13. Peril, fab. , Dear Busy Bee: This is the sec ond time I have written to you and in seeing my story in print I was encouraged to write' again. This timeI am enclosing a poem of my own' writing: ' , April Rain. ; . " Pitter, patter, hear the rain, . Beating 'gainst the window pane. See that robin hopping nigh, Looking at the leaden sky, Off to the barn the children run", They sre going to have some fun. You can hear them all the day, Laughing and playing in the hay. Long and loud does their lighter ray, : Seeming to- call and to welcome - - spring. . ... And now against the window pan.; Comes the torrent of April rain. Whi p-Pobr-Will s W e r e Heroes to Little Ones of the Alps ' Whip-PoorWill Has Ckusis and 13 Surprised to Learn How gmall Is the Family of Mr. and Mrs: Moon-Beam-Ray and Shine. Rainy Day Letter. 7 yeare old, r 13 if 1TAmwA V U.I.M. Newoort. Neb. Dear Busy Bees: I go to school and I am in the First grad.- Uy teacher's name is Miss Jorpin, It is raining today. I hay got the mumps nd I have to stay home from school. I will have to close. A Young Swimmer. By Boulah Clark. Aga7, Union. Nob.. Last summer my sister Dorothy and myself went swimming with my aunt Ora. Dorothy fell down in the water. She thought she was go ing to drown and began to cry. We had to dry her clothes, so she could go home, ,. - . Un the way home-in the wood we found some wooden spoons and some tin cans, where some tramps had been camping. , We had to cross a; high bridge and it made us dirry, but finally we got home all right. , A Kind Deed. i By Anita Crabb. AC ' 10, Omaa, Neb. ' Once there was a little kind girl and next- door to her lived a little pedr girl. All the bys made fun of her because she was poor. The ' kind'girj did not like it very well. Qn Christmas time they were going to have a play; the poor girl did not have a".y nice clothes to wear, SO the kind girl gave the poor girl a nice pink silk dress to wear and to keep all the time. ' r By MARGARET McSHANE: Twelfth story of th Night. "I never knew. Whip-poor-will,- that birds had cousins, until you told me the Nighthawk, Chimney. Swift, j and the Humming bird were your first cousins. I always thought sucj things as'relatives only belonged to the humans of earth. We have no relative.. Our family consists only of Father and Mother Moon, and Moonbeam. " Who wouldn't like to ride around on the soft, fuzzy back of big fat goat! , "Just at this time, a real smart Whip-poor-will was flying about for his luncheon. He saw that; the in sects were bothering the goats. He also saw that the goats were; try ing very hard to . get fat- and healthy, to be able to give lots of tresh milk to the little feovs and How Baby Ele phat Was Taught , Manners' In $ recent exchange it is stated that elephants are amazingly like vj human tetngs in the way they dis cipline their young. In proof, it tells an amusing incident seen by a French traveler in an extensive lumber-yard in Burma.1 While the adult elephants were faithfully at work, the youngsters played about the yard. The elephant that; attracted the traveler's particu lar attention was hauling1, in her chain harness, huge tree trunks from the bank, of the river. . She had mv two brothers. Rav. and Shine. rs, who live in the beautiful Al JST6 aunts, or uncles, or first cousins, ' P'ne( mountains, and 'who delight in er distant relatives hive ever ex- goat's milk. . (sted in our family, n. fact, I never i " This will never do,' the ; Whip heard of, such things, Ajntil I began poor-will said to himself. So be vjsting Earth." v the council cry and in a few '.'Well, you-see, Moonbeam," eon- minutes all the members of our fided Whip-poor-will, that t be- family, for miles around had gath cause you do riot belong to earth, r ered in the beautiful pine trees that. You are one of the Astral family, beautifully-Tjnattadied. It is only earth beings that have relatives. We Wtiip-poor-wilis belong to a very large family with a tnost la mentable name. . ' .. "From time, immemorial we have been rovers, and have wandered U Oyer: the world. Years-and years $0 in Switzerland, a herd of foats were -, feeding pn a velvety green pasture- A swarm of insects gath ered on their soft wooly . baelr Their backs looked so luxurious, covered with the deep long wool. . . . "The bugs began to prohe into the wool, and nipped frequently at the. soft delicate flesh of the gots. It tasted very, vtry sweet to them. Then, of course, they loved to ride around on Ihirse, broad, comfortable backs. ,That. was, very natural, lined the nearett mountain sides "Whip-poor-will told the family allj how the bugs were bothering the . goats, and how very kind hearted the little goats were, and. that they were trying so hard to helafeed the little folks a( earth. .. "Instantly, all the Nighthwk and" Whip-poor-wills, and the other mem bers of the family present became furif us.. They decided to make. war at nee on the despicable bugs, who would dare torment such kinr-heart- ed and generous goats. $o th'ey all prepared for the battle. ..They as sembled in one long, straight line. They sharpened their bijl$ and open ed, their mouths ide, from ear to car. Then,at 4 given signal down they all dashed from . thir great height, with tremendous speed. . .-'They caught the bugs napping; and in few minutes, before you could say Jack Robinson, every bird pres ent had his bill chuck full of the most delicious bugs. Not a single fne was left on the backs of - the goats to tell the tale, or return to nis big family. ' "The birds turned quickly, and leisurely climbed back to the farth est tips of the cool, thick pine trees, iclose at his heels. wnere tney an enjeyed such a ban quet from the spoils of war that it hag gone dawn in the annals of our family." "How wonderful and daring your &mily ware, Whip-poor-will," the opnbeam interrupted, excitedly. , "But the saddest is yet tojeome, Moonbeam. . "Just think, after doing such a heroic and kind act for the children, the pedple pf this earth thought we Tracked the goats for their ,milk. and ever since the world has called us the "goatsucker family." This is why we are obliged to go through life with such a ridiculous name. "Isn't it deplorable, Whip-poor-will, that such a generous act could be so misunderstood ?- Mother Mon has often told me, however, that some earth humans' nvnds are per verted and are prone to misjudge kind, acts." heavy load, a fact that her offsoiing did not realize. Bent on playinf a prank, he wound hi iittla trunk about one of the ,ehain traces and pulled back with all his strength. Conscious of the suddenly in creased weight, the mother stopped and looked around. She saw the youngster back there, and shook her head solemnly, but paying no further hed to his teasing, bent again to her work. Meanwhile, however, th lit tle rascal with his mischievous trunk had loosened the ring that fastened the traces to the load. While the mother wa$ straining to set her burden in motion again, her rascally s'on pulled with all his might against her, and pulled so sturdily that she was quite unaware that she had been disconnected from her load. Then, suddenly, the youngster let go. Naturally enough, the moth- er was tnrown to ner knees, and uer K driver hurled in a wide circle from her back. The culprit sought a huge wood pile that seemed to offer him at least t temporary protection. His mother, however, was soon in pur suit, and he had to flee. Round and round the wood-pile he dodged but his mother, with her iron harness clanging noisily behind her, kept. ! I Although the little one's greater agility gained some space for him at the corners, his mother eventu ally overtook him. The first blow of her trunk drew from him a bawl of pin.At the second he sank, quite humbled, to his knees; and then he endured without s murmur, although with many tears, a sound thrashing. .Finally the mother let him up. With tears still streaming and with drooping trunk, he took his consolate way out of the yard. The little fellow had won the complete sympathy of the observer. Consequently, he was overjoyed to witness during the noon hour a touching reconciliation. The mother did U she could to comfort the penitent little sinner: she caressed him -with her trunk, cuddled hJm up against her, and looked at him as if. to say, "You still have a mother who loves you." IB,. . HIV M OUR' PUZZLE GYM 3. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. "THE RUNAWAY BRIDE." fftr prev ious adventurr of Fegay and BUly, Ponelope. the !rl in the tower, baa met iial. :h young violinist. In this s:ry Peggy and Billy help the two In their elopemant.) - "' ' . CHAPTER J. Hal WiiW Fame." PEG6Y was reading in Una daily newspaper when aHct & sud den she gave a cry of joy.' There before her was a picture of Hal, the young musician who had made all Birdland - weep wlto , his saa, - sad tunes until Silly Belgium had turned him into a glad, jolly player. What made Peggy pry out with j iy was that an item with the picture told how great crowds -were rushing to hear Hal play, bringing to him the fame and fortune tfie was seeking that he might marry Penelope, the girl in the tower. "Happy, fcappy news," sang Peg ffy. "Now Penelope need not fear being forced by her perfectly prim and proper Aunt Pru to wed that ugly old rich man." . Scarcely were the words out of Into the Room -f luttered Pigeon. Homer Peggy's mouth when she bcams aware of a tapping at the window pane. . , "Tlppity-tap-taptap!" some 6ne was trying to draw her - sttelitien-"Tappity-iap-tap-tap:" cam the sound a second time while Peggy was peering through the glass tryt lnt to see the tapper, who was hid den by the dusk of the fall evening Psgsy threw open the sash that ahs' might learn what was. wanted. Into the roorrl fluttered - Homer Pigeon. 'A rush message," he an nounced, all out of breath from an sxtra fast flight.. Ke held up his right leg apd from it Pesgy took a neatly written note. It was addressed to "Fairy Peggy." and at once Peggy knew it was from Penelope, for Penelope still thought that P?gy and Billy were good fair ies because of the remarkable way Ja which thoy had first rescued her from the tower. "Fairy Pegy." said the note, "this night at ix is the hour set by my perfectly prim and proper Aunt Prue for my wedding to Jonathan Cash, the ugly old rich- man to whora she has promised my hand. You know that I love Hal, the young musioan. I have told AunJ Prue I cannot wed Jonathan Cash. She says I can and will, and when Aunt Prue sa,ys X can and I will she means I 'can' and 'will!' But you and Fairy Billy have come to my aid m the past. I know that you will come now and brings my lover. Hal, to me. -! x k .. . "You can't come by the great stone wa.11; for my Aunt Prue knows of my former escapes and has put live electric wires all around the top. And even If you get .over the wall you couldn't come through the tan gled wood and through the, tunnel because Aunt Prue has filled them with barbed wire, But come any way. Your poor Penelope." Peggy stared at the note and then at Homer Pigeon.' "How can wa come anyway?'? she mused anx iously. . : - "That's, just what I say," an swered Billy Belgium, poking bis head through the window, and then he showed Peggy a note from Pene lope which Carrie Pigeon had brought to him. It was just like Peggy's note. "we can't let that poor girl get married to that ugly old rich man apd break her heart and that ot Hal, too," declared Peggy. No. not if we have to smash the A TRAIN1NG FOR NIMBLE; WITS Director SAM LOYD . Copyright, 1919. by Sam Loyd UrfmMstai liniitififSi-'it H.fiMif n Problems of History. Before taking up the history of the world", contained in those nine big volumes, the boys decided to in vestigate the covers which appeared to fit i with their arithmetic les sons. In experimenting with . the arrangement of the books on the two shelves it was found that by placing the four volumes aboe the eight, as shown in the picture,, 6729 over 13458 equalled one-half. That was a good' start, so they proceeded to mix up the books, al ways employing them all, so as ta produce fractions the equivalents of one -third, one-fourth, one-fifth, one Sixth, one-seventh, .One-eighth and one-ninth. - .ft is a series. of simple puzzles, without any mathematical difficulty, r,T "r l.smA8n ; so it i presented to the yeung folk eJectrle wires and burn down the I as instructive, study of the digits. tangled wood," cried Billy. "Come wltbns." Balky Sam, the army mule, was waiting outside, and on his back Peggy and Billy galloped downtown. It was easy to find where Hal was. for hrwas playing his violin before a great audience in the largest thea. ter In town; but it wasn't easy to get into the theater because it was packed to the doors. Peggy and Billy had -to wait out stdj until the concert was pver, and it seemed that It never would be over, as the crowds cheered and cheered and asked Hal t play more and more and more. But Anally the concert was over and Hal cm out to elimb into the bis automobile that was waiting for him.,-" "Be N with me!" he shouted to Peggy and Billy when hs saw them. J'l am winning fame and torr tune and nowi can ask Penelope to be my pr44e." . "Alas, you will "be too late!" cried Peggy, and she told Hal about Penelope's not. "Sped swift to the rescue,' cried HaJ to his driver. "Climb in;" he said to Peggy and Billy, and they bopped into the car, v ' "Hee-haw: Move oVer! brayed Bslky Sam, and he hopped into the big , back seat with them. 7It sura waa funny for . an army mule t climb into an automobile, but be fore any one could say a word the big car was racing toward the castle whfre Penelope was shut up. Tomorrow will b told bow they rot past the Uve ir and the taol4 Hoods.) How many, of the fractions can you make? -'v. Towns in Literature. .- - r Each of the following quotations has been deleted of a word which corresponds to the name of ( an A. eritan town. How many can you find? 1. Philogist who ((town in Michigan! a panting syllable. Cowper. v - 2: Till hUrt with heart in (town in N fi ) bea,ts. Wordsworth, , 3. Her blush o'f (town in N. M.) shame.Bryant. , 4, A (town in Wisconsin) that like lov'ls .warm. MoOre. ' 5., He shall not blind his soul with (town in West -Virginia)-)-Tennyson, , 6. AH that tread the (town fn Arisona.) Bryant. . r a 7. (A day, an hour of - virtuous (ttwn in Virginia,)-Addis6n.: - & The steep where Fame's proud (town n Texas) Shines afsr.-Beet tie. , s: ., ,s . ,9. Surer to prosper than (town in Ssutb Carolina) could have assured us. Milton. - 10, Wjtb all such (town in Peno sylvama) as was never read. Pope. .11. There's a (town in Nebraska) of roses by Bendemsers' stream. Moore.' -..' ', ''V iv' ""- "IN 11. Our own (town in Ohio) we nuke, or find. Samuel Johnson. 13. Wide was his (town, in New York),, andi houses far asunder. Chaucer. , ' 14. Save, save, O save me from the candid (town in Nebraska). George Canning. 1 15. When with eagle eyes he stared at the (town in Missouri)!- Keats. A Classic Riddle? The ancient Greeks, especially the1 Athenians, who were famous for in--quiring, active minds, were very fond of. sitting around swapping r'ddles. This is 'one of their favor ites: " y Knovv'st thou the creature that a tiny brood Within iter bosom keep! securely mewed? Though voiceless vail, beyond the ocean wide 1 To distant rcaims their still, small voices gnde. Fark far away, whome'er to address they seek Will understand, yt no one heat's them speak. Primitive Railroading. . In this sperimw of primitive rail roading we hive an engine and tour cars meeting van engine with three ears, nd the problem is to ascertain the most expeditious way of passing the trains through the medium of the switch,, which ' is only large enough to held one engine, or one car, at a time, No ropes, poles or flying switches are to "ie u-?-'. understood that a car cannot be connected to the front of an engine. It shows the way of passing trains before theadvent of double tracks and modern methods, andthe puzzle is to tell. just how many times it is necessary to back or reverse the en gines to accomplish the feat each reversalof an engine being counted as a move in the solution. Tipping the Conductor. ily mend, the. stiuire, neve,r fails to take advantage of an Oppor tunity, to ex' hibit his talent for quick fig uring: On a Main street car the other day he raid his fare with S dollar bill and the conductor having only 5 coins, which totaled 94 cents, was In a fluar.drjv. "Never mind." said the squire,"""as he pagketed 9J cents, "there's another Tent so you can. buy a good two-oent smoke." .What five coins made up that 94 cents' ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S Domestic Econoray." Mrs. Jones wss the daughter of Smith and the niece of Brown, so there were but fc-ur persons. One hundred dollars was contributed. $92 ?pent andtach received $2 in. the distribution. "pame Trpt puzzle." . . " To'take -the shortest route. Dame Trot visited her neighbors, in the following order: 9, 13, 14. 15.. 16, 12, 11. 7, 8. 4, 372, 1, S, 6 and back to 10. "The Boy Srouts' Purrle." The three tie' scores made at the target shoot were composed as folr lows: 1 First SO, 10, S, 3. J, 1. Second 25, 2fl, 20. 3. 2. L Third 25, 20, 10, 10, 5. 1. "The Width of a River." The p'ver was exactly 1,760 yards vide. : - "CamoiTii,.,,.-' .tics.' The cities concea-jd were: Vorona, Saratoga, Erie, , Tyre Oni .'ia, Chchea, Dsn-.ascus, Tripo' , BuiTaio, Bremen, Oswego, Parma, "Triple DecapitsHcrs." The three stanzas are complrted b' the words Chair, Spout aid timer. , v . KEEP YOUR ANSWERS TO COMPARE WITH SOLUTIONS ONE WEEK FROM TODAY r . 3t V -, I '