THE BEE: OMAHA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1920.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
Scaring Peter Mink.
V "Now I've caught you!" somebody
cried. And something sharp gripped
one of Paddy Muskrat's legs.
A; Paddy knew at once that Peter
Mink had found him. He strug
gled tq swim away. But Peter
Mink held him fast.
'Been eating fried fish, have you?"
said Peter. "I'll teach you to leave
my fish alone 1"
"I haven't eaten a single fish!"
Paddy Muskrat said.
"Well you've been frying 'em,"
said Peter Mink, "and that always
spoils 'em for me."
"I haven't fried a single fish!" said
Paddv.
"I've heard differently," Peter
Mink jeered. "You've been telling
people that you had fish to fry."
"Bt I just meant that I was very
' buv," Paddy Muskrat told him.
- "Well you're going to be busy
now," Peter Mink remarked, as he
gripped Paddy's leg still harder. "And
as for your excuse I don't believe
a word of it. I know you've some
fish hidden somewhere and a fire,
too. After Ive finished with you,
I'll look for them if I have to swim
up and down this pond all nip t.''
You can see how much Peter M'mfc
knew about a fire. He actually
thought that a fire could burn un
der water. -
.s All this time Paddy Muskrat was
wot. tiering where old Mr. Turtle
could be. He had told Paddy that
he was going to stay near him, to
' help him in case Peter Mink should
y'Now IVe caught yov"Some
; body cried
try to hurt Paddy. And now it was
time for him to help if he was going
to. Because Peter was hurting
Paddy dreadfully.
; Pretty soon Peter Mink fcave a
groan. - .
"What's the matter?" Paddy
Muskrat asked him.
- "It's my right hind-foot!" Peter
said thickly. . . He. found it rather
hard, to , talk, because his teeth
were fastened in Paddy's leg. And
besides that, Peter was in great pain.
"Somebody must be biting your
foot," Paddy, Muskrat told him.
Peter tried to shake his. head.
VI t hurts too much for that," he
said. T
Then Paddy Muskrat thought of a
Way to scare Peter. -
"You don't suppose you've stepped
in my fire, do you?" he inquired.
At these words Peter Mink turned
pale. .
"I'm afraid I have," he said,. "I
never felt anything just like this.
My foot's beginning to grow numb;
and I can't move it.' . '
"You'd , better let go of me and
swim away," Paddy Muskrat advised
hiin. "If your other hind-foot should
get in the fire I'm afraid you'd never
be able to walk any more."
When he heard that, Peter Mink
turned still paler. . He was fright
ened. And he loosened his hold on
Paddy's leg. ;
Paddy Muskrat hurried home to
j bind up his hurts. He didn't wait to
i see what happened to Peter Mink.
He was only too glad to get, away
from him. ' ,
But something happened to Peter
, Mink something that surprised him.
He had expected as soon as he let
go of Paddy to swim to the bank
and run away. But to his dismay he
felt himself dragged straight down
to the bottom of the mill-pond,
r At first he noticed only what
seemed to be a flat stone, which ap
peared to be hanging from his foot.
But as he looked more closely he
saw that what he had taken for a
flat stone was really Mr. Turtle.
Peter Mink was terribly fright
ened when' he saw that. He knew
WHY-
Are We Afraid of the Dark?
(Copyright, mo. By The Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
From the earliest of times, the
coming of night has been regard
ed with fear, not because of the
darkness itself, but because of
what might happen during a pe
riod when, save for artificial as
sistance, man is practically blind.
Sight is one of the greatest of
aids to bravery,' and once this
is removed or impeded, it is only
natural that we should fall a
prey to the terrors of the un
known. In more recent years, however,
night has, been robbed of many
of its dangers either real or im
agined by the widespread use of
electric and gas lights, pocket
flashlights, matches and the like.
That fear of the dark is not in
herent to human nature, is proved
by the fact that babies will sleep
in t dark room much better than
In light, and that children, un
less their imaginations have been
stimulated by stories of the dark,
.'re not afraid of it, . .
In short, fear of the dark is
an imaginative fear, due to the
dangers which our minds con
jure up, either through -tales of
witches and goblins which prowl
about at night, or in the case of
adults, bl other and more ma
terial objects which may be pres
ent,, but cannot be seen. Remove
this imaginative. fear; either by
reasoning or the careful avoid
ance of anything which might
tend to give rise to' fright, and
man becomes as little afraid .of
the dark as are the other animals.
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that when Mr. Turtle took hold of
a thing he usually held fast to it
for a long time.
Peter bit Mr. Turtle's head. But
all his biting only made Mr. Turtle's
jaws shut tighter.
Now, Peter Mink soon began to
feet that he would like to go to the
top of the water to get a breath of
air. But Mr. Turtle seemed per
fectly comfortable down there at the
bottom of the mill-pond.
All at once Peter said to Mr.
Turtle:
"Somebody took Mrs. " Turtle's
eggsl"-
When tie heard that, Mr. Turtle
let go of Peter Mink's foot and hur
ried away. " . v.
Peter Mink hurried away, too.
And he would have laughed, if his
foot hadn't pained him so much. For
it was a whole year before that
Fatty Coon dug Mrs. Turtle's eggs
out of the sand near the creek.
You see, Peter had tricked Mr.
Turtle. And Peter never went near
the mill-pond for a long time after
that.
As I for Paddy Muskrat, he no
longer talked about having fish to
fry. When people asked him what
he was going to do, he either told
them or he didn;t. And that was
the end of it. . .
The End. ,
Copyright' Oroiset As Dunlap. 1
Common Sense
Not Too Much of One Thing.
I By J. J. MUNDY.
You say you arelloing a certain
thing for recreation, but you come
home so tired and lame and sore
that you cannot move without dif
ficulty all next day. '
Have you ever considered that
moderation is the soul of recreation?
It is just as bad to be immoderate
with your play as with your Work.
It is penny wise and pound fool
ish to spend so much time recreating
all by yourself, for instance, that you
neglect an occasional play spell with
your family or that you have to
work late at night to make up.
It is fine tq be. enthusiastic and"
ever,y man needs some hard exer
cise to stiffen him' up for his daily
grind so that he will not be a jelly
fish either in body or in mind.
But there is a law of reaction.
- It takes sensible self-denial even
in exercise to get the full benefit of
the exercise. v
Not only do yotl miss on the do
mestic side of life when you think
too much of your own personal
needs in your vacational spells, but
you lose in renewed vigor when
you are too hard a worker in your
recreating.
Keen your balance at work or at
play think it all out systematically
and then balance it
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I'M THE GUY
I'M THE OUT who is so fussy
when you're paying for tha eats.
Why shouldn't I? I ain't taking
ny chances when I go Into a res- If
tan rant. The first thing I do Is to
make sure the " knife, fork and
spoons are clean, so I wipe them
with the napkin. I examine the
soup, smell it, and taste it before
I decide to finish it. I turn over
the meats and the vegetables so
that I'll know there's nothing hid
ing under them. , As for the salad,
I put on my glasses to look it over.
I can't help It If you' are embar
rassed by my display of bad man
ners. I m going to eat the food,
not you. So why should you have
to watch me? It' my business to
determine how I shall eat.
If you don't like it, don't show
if so plainly. I'm your guest, you
Know. So look pleasant, and don't
notice my fussy little ways. It won't
get you anything, anyway.
Besides you're not so perfect
yourself when it comes to table
manners.
That's how I feel about It!
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On the Polish border the Bear balks like a mule.
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WHEN next they play
dominoes at you house,
be a little awkward and
spill some of them on the floor.
With many apologies, pick
them up, hiding one of them (npt
a double or a blank) in a pocket
as you do. Ask the' members
of the party to arrange the
dominoes as in a gamc-or; if
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.Before summoning you at .the
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The game will end or be
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appear on the domino you have
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If you want to repeat tffe
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into another family. Do not tell her
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