THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1921.
SLEEPY-TIME TALES
the"" Vale of
BOBBYrV
r An ai i Kfi
CH A ITER XIX.
Bobby's Mistake.
After a good deal of searching
liobliy Bobolink discovered Timothy
Turtle in a pool in Cedar Swamp,
sunning himself on an old stump
that was half under water.
"Good morning, Mr. Turtle!"
Hobby cried. "Js it true that you
have something to say to nir?"
And feeling quite happy and care
free, Bobby began to sing one of his
most sprightly songs. For Mr.
Turtle was a slow old fellow. It
took him some time to answer a
TGood morning, .Mr. Turtle!"
Bojbbu cried.
iiestion, especially when he was
dozing.
But the moment Bobby Bobolink
began to sing old Mr. Timothy Tur
tle came to life instantly. And he
Mas so angry at hearing that rollick
ing song that much as he wanted
to, he couldn't speak. Somehow the
words seemed to stick in his throat.
And for a few moments Timothy
was afraid he was going to choke.
Now Bobby Bobolink was such a
lively person that he couldn't keep
still long. Especially when he was
singing he liked to be on the move.
So' when he saw that Timothy Tur
tle wasn't going to speak immedi-
HOLDING A
Adele Garrison's
Revelations
The Way Madge Met the Family.
Lillian and I, helped materially by
the Ticcrs, spent a busy afternoon
getting everything in readiness for
the advent of my family, so un
expected by us all. Through Mrs.
Ticer we were able to obtain a com
fortable room at a neighboring farm
house for my father, and another for
Dicky and mc for the brief period
Dicky would remain. This left the
rooms at the Ticer home as we had
originally planned them, with the
exception of my mother-in-law's oc
cupancy of the room which I had
called mine.
"I'd order an extra good dinner,
wit hall of your mother-in-law's fav
orites," demurely suggested Lillian,
when, in hurry and worry, I had de
parted from my usual reserve, and
had told Lillian something of the
anxieties that beset me concerning
-Mother Graham's appearance on the
scene at just this time.
"You don't know the lady," I
answered dryly. "If she's in the
mood I suspect, she'll take the at
titude of daring you to please her in
anything."
However, with the determination
to leave no possible chance of placa
tion untaken, I broached the subject
of mv mother-in-law's captiousness
in culinary matters to Mrs. Ticer.
"Suppose I have a chicken din
ner?" she said with the faith in
fowl as the dish of honor which
most country people have.
A Tempting Meal.
"I think that would be splendid,"
I said, remembering that my mother-in-law
was indeed especially fond of
chicken, and vainly trying to pump
no an enthusiastic, hope that Mrs.
Ticer's treatment would be success
ful. "And I'll have scalloped potatoes
and some new asparagus out of our
own patch, and " Mrs. Ticer was off
in the fine frenzy which attends any
artistic creation, aiid I waited
patiently until she had outlined a
most tempting meal, a culinary
dream of delight.
"Thank you so much Mrs. Ticer."
I said when she had finished. "Now,
-suppose you plan to have it ready
about half after seven. That will be
about IS minutes after they reach
the house if they get the first train.
Of course, if they are delayed until
the last one "
"My dinner will be spoiled," Mrs.
Ticer objected. "Don't you think
you'd better make that 8 o'clock?
Then it will be safe for both trains."
I opened my lips to protest, closed
them again with the reflection that
no matter what my decision would
be, Mrs. Ticer if she were like any
other cook would put the possibil
ity of spoiling one of her dinners be
fore any other consideration, and
stick obstinately to the schedule she
had named.
"Probably that would be best," T
assented, after a minute. "But you'll
be sure to have it ready at 8 sharp,
will you not? For after that long
journey they will be simply starved."
"Junior Wants Mama!"
"I'll have it right on the tick," she
promised, and with this assurance I
had to be content, though I had vis
ions of what irritation would be my
mother-in-law's if she should arrive
. on the first train and have to wait
ior her dinner.
But the first train every exit from
which Marion and I watched like
hawks brought no passengers whom
we knew. Lillian's small daughter
had begged to be allowed to accom
pany mc in order that she might the
sooner see Junior, and her disap
rointrrent when she finally convinced
herself that he was not on the train
"tvas almost teary.
"Do you s'pose something's hap
pened that they won't come at all
today?" she queried with lips that
she kept from quivering only by a
tremendous effort.
"I don't know, Marion." I an
swered truthfully. "The train from
the south may have been so delayed
that they will not be able to make
.J5
.'itely Bobby leaped from the bush
where he was perched and began
llying joyously over the swamp.
All the time he sang with all his
might, making so much music that
he could not hear Timothy Turtle
calling to him at last.
One in a while Bobby wheeled
above Mr. Turtle, so that the old
fellow might enjoy his best notes.
He little knew that Mr. Turtle was
crying to him to stop, for goodness'
sake! And, noticing that Timothy'
mouth was moving, Bobby Bobolink
said to himself:
"He looks terribly fierce; but of
course he's only commanding me
not to stop singing."
It was no wonder that Bobby
Bobolink thought as he did, be
cause his neighbors were always
begging him to sing something for
them.
"It must be that Mr. Turtle want
ed to see me so he could ask me 10
sing some songs for him," Bobby
thought. And, wishing to please
Timothy Turtle, Bobby Bobolink
sang as he hadn't sung all summer
long.
At last Timothy Turtle felt that
he couldn't bear to hear another
note. And, flopping off the stump,
he splashed into the water and sank
to the bottom of the swamp, where
he buried his head in the mud.
And there he stayed until he dared
hope that Bobby Bobolink had
stopped singing, or gone away to a
distant part of the country.
"Has anybody seen Timothy Tur
tle?" Bobby Bobolink kept calling as
soon as he noticed that Mr. Turtle
had vanished. But no one knew
where the old fellow was. And at
last Bobby gave up looking for him.
But he thought it strange that
Timothy hadn't waited to hear the
rest of his song.
"I hope he isn't ill," Bobby told
his friends.
But they only laughed.
"Timothy Turtle is altogether too
old and tough to have much the
matter with him," they said. "If
he's ill, it's nothing but ill temper."
(Copyright, Grosset & Dunlap.)
HUSBAND
New Phase of
of a Wife
connections with thu one. . But"
stirred by the quickly falling barom
eter of Iter face "i am very sure
they will be on the next tram.
We settled back in the motor car
for the tedious wait, I with far less
confidence than I had expressed to
the child. And for the first time since
Dicky's telegram, I found myself
with leisure to realize the exquisite
pleasure so fast coming to me, the
reunion with my baby boy.
I remember a reunion we had had
when he was just learning to talk,
and faithful Katie had kept him from
forgetting mc. No fear now his not
remembering me, after so compara
tively short an absence, and my heart
thrilled, my arms strained at the
prospect of so soon clasping Him in
my arms.
I gave myself up to rapturous an
ticipation, sternly banishing all worry
as to the attitude of Dicky and his
mother toward my new home ven
ture, and before I realized the flight
of the hour the whistle of the lajt
train sounded, and Marion and I
made a dash for the platform.
And then the train drew in, the
passengers alighted, and I saw
Dicky assisting his mother, with
Junior held securely in one arm,
while my father directed the porter
and a mountain of luggage. With
ears attuned above the din, I heard
my little lad querying:
"My mamma! Where my mamma?
Junior wants mamma!"
The next instant, regardless of
everything and everybody, I had
reached my husband's side and was
rapturously kissing my little son
while his father beamed down upon
me, and for a single blessed instant
all the rest of the world was as a
shadow.
(Continued Tomorrow.) ,
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, Twenty-seven years ago, Nebraska was in a state
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