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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By MAX TRELL
[R FUNCH,” sald Kcarf,
"M
the Shadow Boy with the as be
Tuned-About Name,
went up to the rocking chair in.“ which
his old
Punch's Nutty Rhymes
-Knarf Asks Questions About Squirrels And Nuts-
friend was really were a Squirrel but rock-black rock, white rock, any. old kind of peacefully sitting and reading only if you were a Squirrel." gray rock,
This a book, "if you were a Squirrel,
time Mr Purch gave rock.' how would you—”
Krarf a broad smile,
"But how would you remem- "Of course you didn't mean ber which rock?" said Knarf.
It's- "That's
the nutty where anything wrong, my Boy. just that you startled me a bit. rhymes would come in," said It isn't often that someone Mr Punch.
Mr Punch lifted his head with a start.
"What's that!" he exclaimed.
"If I were a—what?”
"A Squirrel,
Mr Purch," comes up to me while I am Kaarf repeated, trying to smile. reading and suddenly asks me
However, he found it a little if I'm a Squirrel."
AIF
bard to smile because Putch was staring at him so sternly.
Thought about it
"For instance: "Peanut by that rock: "Right at twelve o'clock! "And by twelve o'clock," said Mr Punch, "I would mean the way the hands of a clock, point- ed at twelve o'clock and I was sitting on the north side where all the moss grows."
Mr Punch Low shut his book, "Squirrell?” repeated JIF Punch. "Ore of those Animals lit his pipe, puffed a few smoke
Knarf looked a little puzzled, that climbs trees ard hides rings into the air, and set about
thinking how he would re- but Mr. Punch said: member where he had hidden "It doesn't really matter if buried--the you don't understand all of it, the cuts he had exact spot-so as to be able to Knarf. The important thing is find them again when he was that I'd follow the direction of
the hands of the clock hungry.
small hand, anyway.
Koarf nodded his head. Mr Punch stared at him even more sternly than before.
"Go on," he finally said. "If I were a Squirrel—”
How find nuts?
"Well," Mr Punch finally, said, "if I were a Squirrel, this "If you were a Squirrel," is what I would do to be sure Kharf continued, "how would to remember where I had hid- you know how to find the muts den my cuts. I'd make up you bad buried in the ground? rhymes
I TEND, how would you re member where you buried then
exact spot
where you beried them so that you could find them again?
about nuts nutty- rhymes, let's call them."
"Nutty rhymes," said Kharf, smiling.
Mr Punch said: "Real nutty rhymes yes. “Ard,” added Knari, before Now suppose I had half a dozen Mr Punch had a chance to say nuts to hide. To begin with anything, "I didn't mean you I'd hide all of them next to a
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Second nut
the.
"And then for my second nut: "Walnut by that reek: "Right at one o'clock! "And so on," said Mr Punch. "In that way I'd be pretty sure to find my buried nuts again.
“Now I don't say that Squir- rels go about making up nutty rhymes, but I'm quite sure that
remember they
where they hidden their have
nuts by remembering that they buried
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then near some rock, or some tree, or near a stone wall,"
Do they forget?
"What kind of a nut does the Squirrel have to bury to make an oak tree grow, Mr Punch?” he asked.
**An acom," replied Mr Punch.
"And is an acorn a nut?" asked Knarf.
"That question." said Mr Punch. you'll have to ask a
"I wonder," said Knarf, real Squirrel, not just an If- "whether Squirrels ever forget You-Were-A-Squirrel like me!" And Mr Punch chuckled, and where they've hidden a nut."
his book again, and
"I'm sure they do," said Mr opened Purich. "And do you know what went on reading. happens when they do forget and the
the nut stays in ground?"
"It just stays there," 3.4- swered Knart.
"More than that,” said Mr Punch. "It grows. It becomes a walnut tree, or a chestnut tree, or an oak tree."
Kharf looked surprised.
Heard Punch
as But Knart thought he walked away (though he may have been mistaken) that he heard Mr Punch saying very quietly:
"Acorn by the rock: "Not on any clock! "And there it is, a tree! "Planted there by me!"
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The gnomes do not leave Rupert at once, but take him well away from the rocks. At length they pause. "Mind you do just what our leader told you."* says one. ** and when you come back to report mind you come alone!" "Well, I'm back in the wood." murmurs Rupert, "but I
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don't recognise this part. Fancy there being all those ways into your underground home and nobody knows about them. Now, please, what is my best way home > " There is no answer, and he swings round in surprise. All his little companions have vanished.
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