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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By MAX TRELL "MR PUNCH" asked Knart,
the Shadow Boy with the Turned About Name, “are you an actor?”
Ar Punch, who was taking a bit of a rap in his rocking chair by the sunny window, looked up at Kharf, with an expression of surprise on his face.
Ater a moment or two, the kok of 'surprise changed to přėmsani smilė,
a
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-Mr. Punch Explains Why He Is So Talented-
"What's that Knarf.
mean?" asked
The King's command
"Well," said Mr Punch, "sup-
"I'm not only an actor," Mr mother and my two grand- Punch replied, “I'm also a jug- fathers and two grandmothers pose the King was feeling un-
happy about gler, an acrobat, a singer, a mu- and my four great-grandfathers would call for Punchinello. Then something. He sician and I can dance a jig.". and my four great-grandmothers "Oh!” said Knarf. “I didn't were also actors and jugglers know you could do
and acrobats and singers and
things."
all
those
. "And more than that,” Mr Punch went on, "my father and
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musicians and dancers."
"Mr. Punch," asked Knari, "are you an actor?”
Grandfather Punchinello would come and stand before the King.
"What does Your Majesty 16 wish me to do?' he would ask. "Oh!" said Knarf again..
"Sing me a song, the King "Long, long_ago," said Mr might say. Punch, "I had a
great-great- "Then Punchinello would play great-great-grandfather whose his guitar and sing merry songs name was Punchinello, He came to the King. And by-and-by the from Italy."
sad King would start smiling again.
"Oh!” said Knarf, for the third time.
-
"I'm named after my great - great
great
Punch
great- grand- "Pun- you see
Tather," said Mr Punch. chinello..
what I mean?"
Knarf rodded bis head. "And was your
great-great- great-great-grandfather Pun- chinello an actor and a juggler and all those other things, too?"
Knarf asked.
Important person
"He certainly was," said Mr Funch. "He was so important- End So funny-that he lived in a palace with the King. He used to be called The Court Jester."
JOVE,
SOON BE TIME FOR CHAMPERS
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*Thank you, Punchinello,' he would say. You have cheered me up.
"Just like a Punch and Judy show?" sald Knarf.
"Exactly like a Punch and Judy show," said Mr Punch.
Knarf was silent for a while, "Or sometimes,” Mr Punch Then he said to Mr Punch: went on, "great-great-great “You're a lot like your great- great-grandfather Punchinelo great-great-great-grandfather would please the King by jug- Punchinello, aren't gling golden balls in the air. Or Punch?”
else he would do somersaults back- and hand-springs and flips. Sometimes he would dance around like a frog.
you, Mr
“Yes,” said Mr Punch, "only I don't put on plays for Kings and Queens any more. I just
do it for Princes and Princesses." "But most of the time, great- "But, Mr Punch,” sala Knarf, great-great-great-grandfathe" "you put on plays for all the Punchinello would call for his children in the neighbourhood! wife Judy and a Foliceman and None of them, are Princes and a Dragon, and they would all act Princesses." in little plays just to make the King and the Queen and the little Princesses happy.”
I SAY, GET OFF ME PROPERTY, OR MUST I SUMMON ME GUNBOAT
OH DEAR
ER COULD YOU SPARE A DRINK
OF WATER?
"They are to me," Mr Punch said.
And that's all he would say.
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