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BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1920.
1'HOTOM.AYS.
iPY-TIME TALES
THE GUMPS
PLEASE GO 'WAY AND LET ME SLEEP
Drawn for The Bee by Sidney Smith.
THE TALE OF
FATTY
COON
BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
. CHAPTER IX.
1
'. Johnnie Green Loses His Pet.
t? - i u: . t. : A
man had not chopped lonu before
they stopped to breathe. They had
not chopped long but oh! what
great, yawning holes they had made
in the big chestnut! From the limb
. where he clung Fatty Coon looked
klown. The tree n6 longer shook.
- And Fatty felt better at once. You
- see, he thought that the men would
'gcvaway, just as Johnnie had gone
.away the night betore. isut they
had no such idea at all.
" "Which way are you going to fell
her?" the hired man asked. He said
her, meaning the tree, of course.
That way r said, farmer Oreen,
pointing toward the' woods. "We'll
have to drop her that way, or she'll
fall right across the road, and of
voursc that would never do."
" "But will she clear the trees on
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I It was no wonder that Johnnie
fGreen shouted.
ilie edge of the woods?" The hired
hian appeared somewhat doubtful.
i "Oh, to be sure to be sure!"
answered Farmer Green?
And with that they set to work
again. But this time they both
chopped on the same side of the
tree the side toward, the woods.
Now, if Fatty Coon was fright
ened before, you will believe that he
wag still more frightened when the
big chestnut tree began to sag. Yesl
U began to lean toward the woods.
f lowly, slowly it tipped. And
atty was scared half out of his
mind. He climbed to the very top
of the tree, because he wanted to get
lust a far awav fmm thncn man oe
he couid And there he waited.
There wSI nothing else he could do.
Yesl he waited until that awful mo
ment should come when the tree
would go crashing down upon the
ground, vv hat was going to happen
to him then? tatty wondered. And
while he was wondering there sound
ed all at once a great snapping and
splitting. And Fatty felt the tree
falling, falling. He could hear
Johnnie Green shouting. And he
shut his eyes and held fast to his
branch. Then came the crash.
When Fatty Coon opened his eves
he expected to see Johnnie Green all
ready to seize him. But to his great
surprise he was still far above the
ground. You see, Farmer Green had
been mistaken. Either the big chest
nut tree was taller than he had
guessed, or the woods were nearer
than he had thotnrht. For instead
of dropping upon the ground, Fatty's
tree had fallen right against another
tree on the edge of the woods. And
there it lay, half-tipped over, with its
branches caught fast in the branches
of that other tree.
It was no wonder that Johnnie
Green shouted. And he shouted still
more loudly when he saw Fatty
scramble out of the big chestnut and
into the other tree, and out of that
tree and into another, and theft out
of that tree. Fatty was going straight
into the woods.
It was no wonder that Johnnie
Green shouted. For he had lost his
pet coon. He .had lost him before'
he ever had him. And he was sadly
disappointed. , , .
But Fatty Coon was . not disap
pointed, for he had not wanted to be
a pet at all. And he was very glad
you may be sure to get safely home
once again. .
(Copyright, Go8et & Dunlap.)
HOLDING A HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations of a Wife
The Wish That Tugged at Madge's
, Heart. .
Dicky looked at his watch as I
moved abruptly away from the
bridge railing. v v
"Why the -mad rush, old dear?"
he queried. "We've still got a good
margin before ' Whistling Sam's
schedule.
"I thought ! saw a snake down
there," I replied, with a menda
cious little . shudder. "Besides I
want to see that little camp over
beyond. It fascinates me."
"I'd like a- look at it, too," Dicky
assented, falling into step beside me.
His manner was as indifferent as
if he had never heard of the man
named Tim. I cast a furtive glance
at him. Was he really unconscious
of the man's identity, had Hugh
Grantland kept to himself all de
tails of Grace Draper's arrival and
banishment, or was my husband
only pretending ignorance? Since
his memorable talk with me con
cerning my exposure of Rita Brown
I never have been quite certain how
much he, does or does not know of
my affairs. ' y ;
But, of course, question or com
ment, was impossible for' me, so I
simply walked demurely at his side
until we reached the rustic camp,
also of Whistling Sam's fashioning.
It was a strangely attractive little
building:, ' its site a gentle eminence
from which one caught delightful
glimpses of the river, the bridge and
the winding auto road. ;
"It's just one big room with a
washroom adjoining, and this ver
anda," Dicky observed, as I climbed
the steps of the broad veranda, and
exclaimed in delighted admiration
at the comfortable-looking rustic
benches scattered about the ver
anda.' '
But when I caught sight of the
immense fireplace inside, a wonder
ful fire of ic blazing in its deep
throat, I lost all interest in the ver
anda, and rushed toward it with the
childish glee I always feel on seeing
a big fireplace. ,
"Oh, Dicky," I exclaimed. "Isn't
this wonderful?"
"What always makes you so daffy
about a fireplace?" Dicky inquired
curiously. "You always act as if
you were 6 years old, and expected
Santa Claus to come right down the
chimncv. Not that the old boy
couldn't get ddwn this one easily, at
that," he said, surveying the big op
ening critically. .
Lingering Tim.
"If you'd been brought up over a
hole in the floor with hot air com
inr no from a"iurnace when the fur
nace chose to work you'd be daffy
about one, too," I retorted hotly. "I
always longed for a fireplace when 1
Sliai the hmm
r
I'OO'd
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Something more like panic than enthusiasm is manifested by our .growing army of..
idle workers which already numbers two million, according to, -, the American Federation of
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migrant produces more than he consumes, and is, therefore, an asset rather than -a ' ability;
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that, as the New York Herald summarizes this point of view, "when we contemplate barring out
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Read the leading article in THE LITERARY DIGEST this week (December 18th) for an
all-sided survey of this perplexing problem. .
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President Wilson's "Confession of
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First Aid to Farmers 1 ,
.Our Neighbor Armenia
West Virginia's War
European Views of "Newv America
"Keeping" the Kaiser in, Hoi land
American Trade Conquests in India
How to Lower Prices
Tire Truth About American Dyes
Saving the Lives of Clothes
Straw Gas for Farm Use
The Seesaw Windmill
When Your Name Is Not Your Own
The Storm About "Margot"
A Film Duel i
Chicago Indicting Herself Operatically
Christ and Buddha at Tokyo '
Are We Overdoing "Safety First"?
Is the Jew Convertible
The Cannibal's Substitute for Religion
Zinc Trade of the World
Railway Transportation
Winter Travel and Recreation All
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Topics of the Day
Best of the Current Poetry
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was a child, but I never had a chance
to live beside one until I was grown
UD."
"Well, she shall always have a fire
place as lonsr as her husband can
hold a pencil and draw little pieces
for the papers, so she shall," Dicky
teased, slipping his arm around my
shoulders, but hastily taking it away
again, as a chorus of ohs and ahs
sounded from the steps. A second
later a group of tourists from the
other canoes filed into the room.
Dicky and I, with a lingering glance
at the antlered deer heads decorat
ing the walls, the big rustic table
strewn with magazines and smokers'
conveniences, and the comfortable
looking cots standing against the
wals, walked down the steps and
toward the dining halL
Dicky's nonsensical moods always
raise my spirits, no matter what de
pressing influences may be near me.
And even the sight of the man named
Tjm, lounging on the boat landing,
with his face turned toward the en
trance of the dining hall, failed to
oppress me, as had my previous
glimpses of him. After all there was
nothing to be feared from the man
himself. It was simply because he
was an emissary 'of Grace Draper
that I dreaded seeing him or speaking
to him. And, I told myself, I really
had no warrant for belieying that he
had anv message for me or any de
sire to see me. But I knew that my
tormenting curiosity, founded on my
dread of Grace Draper, would make
me seek an opportunity to put a sin
gle question to him.
Madge Makes Opportunity.
"Better hurry a bit. old dear,"
Dicky admonished. "We've less
than the five minites allotted us by
Whistling Sam to get ready for din
ner. And our friends at the camo
are hurrying behind us. 'I under
stand ifs a point of honor at these
dinners not to delay the service by
a second. Whistling Sam's a tem
peramental cook."
T hurried accordingly. Washing
my hands and arranging my hair and
hat in a rustic wasnroom wncre iwo
or three other women were hastily
primping, I joined Dicky and sat
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down with him at precisely the mo
ment and in the place Whistling Sam
indicated. '
"I'll tell the world he's got a right
to be temperamental," Dicky saM, as
we finished one of the most delicious
meals I have ever tasted , in my life.
"And now, me for an interview with
him. How about it? Want to go
along and listen to my spiel?"
' I grasped at the opportunity .for
finding the man named Tim.
. "I don't think I do," I said. "I'd
much rather go and sit on that lovely
little veranda up there. But yon
can't see him now. He'll btdb busy.
Suppose you come out with me for
a stroll and a smoke and then go to
see him?"
"Sometimes you really have an
idea," said Dicky-as we left the din
ing room.
, (Continued Tomorrow.)
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