10
feet. He felt very queer. There
was a strange, tight feeling about
his stomach. And his lides were
no longer thin. They stuck out just
as they had before winter came
only more so. And what v alarmed
Fatty was this: his sides seemed
to be sticking out more and more
all the time. '
He wondered what he had been
eating. Those dry things that tasted
li'-e apples he wondered what they
were.
Now, there was some pnnttng on
the outside of the box which held
those queer, spongy, flat things. Of
course. Fatty Coon could not read,
so the printing did him no- good
at all. But if you had seen the box,
and if you are old enough to read,
you would have known that the
printing said:
, EVAPORATED APPLES,
i Now, evaporated apples are noth
ing more or less than dried apples.
The cook of the loggers' camp used
them to make apple pies. And first,
before making his pies, he always
soaked them in water so they would
swell. -' - :
Now you see what made Fatty
Coon feel so queer and uncomfort
able. He had first eaten his dried
apples. And then he had soaked
them, by drinking out of the brook.
It waS-. no wonder that his sides
stuck out, for the apples that he
had bolted were swelling and puff
ing him out until he felt that he
should burst: In fact, the wonder
of it was that he was able. to get
through his mother's doorway, when
he reached home.
' But he did it, though it cost hira
a few groans. And, he frightened
his mother, too. t
"I only hope you're not poisoned,"
she said, when Fatty told her what
he had been doing.
And that remark frightened Fatty
more than ever. He was sure he
'was , never going to feel any bet
ter. Poor Mrs. Coon was much wor
ried all, the rest of the night. But
when morning came she knew that
it because of something he said. It
was this:
"Oh, dear! I wish I had some
thing to eat!" ,
men? They don't need it. They do
their work. r
No, I am not afraid of them, al
though I wouldn't care to have iny
argument with any one of them.
, I know how to run my business,
and I am going to run it my way.
You're out of luck, if it makes you
sore. . '
If you attended to your own af
fairs you'd be a great deal better
off.
(Copyright, 113, Thompson Feature
Service.)
with the baby's hand, or his height
with the baby's fc height. He will
learn in time.
$1.1 lY-TIME TALCS
Sin Francisco J
THETALE OF
PATTY
COON
Where It Started
1l
Dear Folks:
I '.arty this morning big party of ua wont
down o Fitihcnuau'a Vfliart to pee tho flailing
boats come In through the Golden Gate with
their catch for the day's market. .Thla wharf
Is an old landmark of the city. 5 Rohert Louis
Stevenson listened to the yarns 'of the sailors
here and got many plots for his aea stories In
this way. We got buck to the hotel Just in
Urn for breakfast and my, dldn' we eat!
I'M THE GUY
Bloomers.
These articles of apparel, now so
universally used, were invented' by
a Mrs. Bloomer, from whom the
name is derived, in the nineteenth
century. Despite the obvious prac
ticality of the garment, they were
much sneered at and even ' con
demned by certain divines as im
moral. It was long before they
became at all popular.
(Copyright, 1M0, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.)
Shopmen Laid Off
Galesburg, 111., Dec, 28. Twenty
five per cent of the employes of the
Burlington road here are to be laid
I'M THE GUY who steamfaces
round his office.
Well, -what of it? I'm the boss,
am I not? And I know how to get
the work done. ' I've got to keep
after them all the time. I have to
show my authority. If I don't bawl
them out all the time they'd think
I was easy, and would loaf on me.
Of course, I do most of my yelling
at the girls and young boys. They
need it most. They wouldn't do a
decent day's work once in a month
if I wasn't howling my lungs out
at them all day long.
And don't worry, I do the same
to my wife at home. She needs it,
too, just as well as the girls in my
office. (
Why is it, I dton't bawl out the
BAILEY
dSi
CHAPTER XIX. '
Fatty Grows Even Fattei.
When Fatty Coon's burned feet
were well once more, the very first
night he left his mother's house he
went straight to the loggers' camp.
He-did not wait long after dark,
because he vvas afraid that some of
Parents Problems
: III.
How,". can "an affectionate, but
rought boy' of 7 be taught to be
more careful in handling his little
sister of , 2, of whom he is very
fend?;
, The little boy should not only be
told how much smaller and less
strong than he his little sister is
but this should be demonstrated to
him by.letting him compare his hand
Ratea at Hotel 'Whit
comb from $2.00. 400
outside rooms. Writ
for folder containing
map of city.
J. H- VAN HORNE.
Manager.
Hotel Whitcomb
k " Chx Center f
off the first of the year, according
trt nrdcre split nut trtrlav. Nrarlv
SAN FRANCISCO;
3,000 men are employed at. the local
USE BEE WANT ADS THEY BRING RESULTS
ratty was out of danger, bhe knew
yards.
l
He waa Thirsty, theru
his neighbors might have found that
there were good things to eat about
the camp. And Fatty wanted them
all.
To his delight, there" were
goodies almost without end. He
nosed about, picking up potato peel
ings, and bits of bacon. "And per
haps the best of all was a piece of
tornbread, which Fatty fairly gob
hied. And then he found, a box
lialf-full of something scraps that
tasted, like apples, only they were
not round like apples, and theywere
miite dry, instead of being juicy.
But Fatty liked them; .and he ate
them all, down to the smallest bit.
Hewas thirsty, then.' So he went
down to the brook, which ran close
by the camp. The loggers had cut
a hole through the icee, so., they
could get water. And Fatty crept
close to the edge oMhe hole and
tlrank. He drank a great deal of
water, because he was very thirsty.
And when he had finished' he sat
down on the ice for a time. 'He
did not care to stir about just then.
And he did not think he would ever
want anything to eatagain. .
At last Fatty Coon rose to his
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v
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