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STORIES FOR A Snapping Sound

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BOYS AND GIRLS

-For A Moment Teddy Thinks He Lost His Head-

By MAX TRELL

Hanid asked Teddy what made him think, all of a sudden, that VREDDY, the Stuffed Bear, was his head had come off.

sitting on the floor with his legs stre caled out and his fat arms folded behind his head an bis eyes open bus not

ng

"I heard a snapping noise," an- swered Teddy.

Knarf and Hanid

much, because he really wasn't around the room. looking at anything but the ceil-

The first one they saw

China Doll.

ing, when all of a sudden he Miss beard something snap.

For a moment he thought that his head had snapped off. This

Hana hing that Teddy be-

was

argund excitedly for

his head. But he felt the wrong end, and felt his foot instead.

Yelled for help : "Help! Mr. bead's snapped off!" he yellet.

Of course the instant he yelled, Teddy know that his head must still be on for how could he yell if it wasnt? But by this time Knart and Hanill, the Shadow Children with the Turned-About | Names, calme dashing into the "room" to find out what was the

matter.

“Er-I'm sorry," Teddy said sounding quite ashamed. "I thought us head came off.”. 7

"It's on! Here, can't you feel it?”. Knatt gave Teddy a rap on the top of the head.

"Ouch!” said Teddy. “I know

She

sweeping the living room of her handsome private house. She was the only one in the Play room who had her own really. private house to live in.

was Miss China Doll said she sure that the snapping noise that Teddy said he had heard from some other place.

"IL

didn't come from house," she said.

came

"Maybe the snapping noise another voice came from me," said.

Right, above Miss China Doll's private house hung the Canary had Mr Enrico Canary cage. opened the door of his cage and at Knarf and was looking down Hanid as he spoke.

"Maybe Teddy heard me my snapping my beak. Listen-" and Enrico Canary snapped his beak.

"I may have dropped my looked broom against a chair, though," kishe added the next moment, was "Perhaps Teddy thought that was was the snapping noise."

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"but it's worth following up. If the real bad men have hidden stolen stuff if the hut it means there's lots there, and they're afraid of being seen with it in daylight There must

have been other robberies. They're

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"Was that the sound you Teddy?" Hanid called heard. across to the Bear who was still on the other sitting on the floor side of the room.

"No," said

much louder.".

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"I'm the one,” Jack-in-the-Bar told Knarf and Hanid,

"Was that it, Teddy?" Hanid called to the Bear..

"It sound- "No," said Teddy. Teddy. "It was

ed like somebody's head hitting something. That's what made me think it was my head snap- ping off. It came from right over there," and Teddy pointed to the bookcase.

The razor?

"Maybe he heard me," Mr Punch said from another corner of the room. **I was shaving myself a few minutes ago. Ted- Saw Jack-in-the-Box dy may have heard me sharpen- Knart and Hanid darted across

the ing my razor blade. It makes a to

bookcase. There they snapping noise."

found, on the bottom empty "No," said Teddy. "The noise shelf, a box coloured red and didn't come from your direction, green and yellow. Standing in- Mr Punch."

"He may

his arms

with side the box have heard me," spread out and a broad grin on General Tin, the Tin Soldier. his face was Jack-in-the-Box. said to Knarf and Hanid. "'I

"Sure, I'm the one!" he said. was standing by the door, just "I got tired of staying all as I am now, with my musket squeezed up inside this little old over my shoulder.

few minutes ago I box, so a "A few minutes ago I put my started pushing up. All of musket

down and leaned it sudden the top snapped open and against the wall while I scratch- here I am! ed an itch on the end of my nose. The sound of my musket touch- ing the floor may have sounded like a snap to Teddy."

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"Sorry, old boy," Jack called over to Teddy. "I didn't mean to make

you think you'd lost your head!!!.

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