STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By MAX TRELL
KNARF, the Shadow Boy with
Turned-About Name.
Ed his friends Teddy, the
Cherry Tree Thieves
-Simon Proves He's Not Really Simple—
Stuffed Bear, and Hiawatha, the But the Three Musketeers had vard, they came to a crossroad
no trouble at all.
Looking up, the Three Muske- teers noticed there were half a dozen fat Robins on a branch of
And even the cherry tree. Knarf, Teddy and Hiawatha
as
looked at them, the Robins were Small-Sized Wooden. Indian-
reading, "Mother Goose Road," picking the ripest and juiciest of the cherries and swallowing them the Three Musketeers, every-
and that's the one they took. body called them-sang as they
Suddenly, Sometimes they walked three
a boy down. They didn't seem to mind they saw
the Three Musketeers at all, nor and sometime's walked along Book Boulevard abreast
they with yellow hair sitting
Simon, Simple
either. They which runs behind the bookcase. walked Indian style, one behind wooden fence under
But no matter how tree.
chirped good-naturedly. Now Book Boulevard isn't a the other.
wide road *very
and it isn't they walked, they all kept sing- everyone who can make himself ing. smail enough-to walk along it.
And at the end of Book Boule-
Rupert and the Winter Sale-30
Mr.
As he approaches the bus-stop "Oh my, I must get indoors and through the driving snow Rupert sit down. Oh, my poor feet !" sets the big shape of the bus Rupert helps her to the cottage and already there and among the people into an armchair. When he has
put the kettle on for tea. Tredging away from it is his own
Bear is sytopathetic but there is Mummy, looking very tired and dispirited.
also a mischievous little look in "Oh. Rupert! You're here you're safe 1" she gasps.
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on a a cherry
"It's Simon!" cried Knarf. "It's Simple Simon!" cried Teddy.
"What does Simple mean?" Hiawatha asked.
"Simple means Foolish," said Knarf.
"Foolish Simon," said Hiawa- tha. "Why is he foolish?"
"You'll see," said Teddy, the Stuffed Bear.
With that, they all ran up to him Simple Simon and asked why he was sitting on
the wooden fence under the cherry
tree.
"Get away from there!" Knarf shouted.
"No, no, don't say that. You'll get them angry," Simple Simon said to Knarf.
Teddy picked up a stick and wanted to shake it at the Robins, Hiawatha wanted to climb up catch them but, Simple Simon wouldn't let them.
and
Always come back
Simon sat on a wooden fence
under a cherry tres.
come right back again. No mat- ter how often you chase them so you might just as well let away, they'll come right back.
them eat all the cherries they want. They will anyhow.”
"But they won't leave enough cherries to fill your basket,'
As it turned out. Simple Simon was right. The Robins ate many cherries and ate them so fast that pretty soon they were stuffed full. Away they flew!
"Go right On cating, my said Knarf. dears," Simon called up to the Robins. "Don't pay any attention to them. Please eat all the cherries you want. Just leave me To pick cherries
enough to fill my basket!" "Well," said Simon, as he held
"But that's not the way to cut a little empty basket, "my treat Robins who steal cherries," mother sent me here to said Teddy. pick some cherries from the cherry tree."
"Why haven't you picked them?" said Knarf, looking at the empty basket.
"Because they haven't finished eating yet," said Simon, pointing up at the tree.
WE'VE COME ALL THIS WAY -
TO GET THE THING REPAIRED
AND ALL THE TIME IT
DIDN'T NEED IT
YOU'RE ALL MAD, IF YOU ASK ME, MATE,
"I don't think so either," said Knarf.
"Very foolish, Simon," Hia- watha muttered to himself.
"Oh no," said Simon. "All of you are wrong to think of chas- ing the Robins away. They'll
WORN MYSELF TO A SHADOW, I AVE, AND ALL FOR
NOTHING
I DON'T WISH
TO BE A BORE, BUT I HAVE.
A SURGERY AT SEVEN
There were plenty of cherries left to fill Simon's basket. That made him happy and the Robins were happy as well.
"Not so very Foolish Simon," Hiawatha, the Small-Sized as the Wooden Indian said, Three Musketeers walked home. "Very Smart Simon, I think."
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