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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Mr Punch's Answers

He Helps Mother Goose Solve Her Troubles-

By MAX TRELL

"Mother Goose in trouble!" Knarf exclaimed in a startled

"MR, PUNCH," said Entarf, voice:

.

a bigger shoe, to buy more bis- cuits, to put up a fence, and to give him a penny."

all

never had room enough for her Children and that worried Mother Goose, Next!"

"Give who A penny. Mr "To buy more biscuits," said Punch?" Knart asked excitedly. Knarf. "Who needed more bis-

cuits?"

Guessed

"You'll have to figure all that the Shadow Boy with the

out yourself." Mr Punch said Turned-About-Name, to his old-

"Now don't misunderstand.” as he picked up Judy's shoes niki wisest friend in the said Mr Punch, as he put down and dashed out of the room.

and began om, can you tell me Judy's right shoe

out

Is there such a polishing her left shoe. "Mother

Then Knarf sat himself down as Mother Goos

Goose's worries aren't big wor- in the corner and thought ries. They're worries just the and thought... but he couldn't

out came Mr Punch, who happened at same. So she

to figure.

what Mr. Punch that moment, to be getting me and to ask me if I couldn't meant. So he found his sister her Hanid and told her what MT ready to polish his own shoes do something to make all and the shoes belonging to his worries go away"

Punch had told him. wife Judy, put down the shoe- brush, put on his glasses, and looked at Kriaki.

Very,real

Why, Mother Hubbard's Dog, of course. Mother Goose was always worried about his finding the cupboard bare in Mother Hubbard's house. Next one, please?"

"The next one." said Knarf, "is to put up a fence."

Give him penny

"That would be for Little Bo Peep's sheep Mother Goose

"I hope you told her." Knarf.

said

Hanid said she could guess the answers right away!

was

"Of course I did!" said Mr Punch.

Then Knarf, after

hesitating

Then he took off his glasses, put them in his pocket, picked for a moment or two, asked Mr up tha shoebrush and started to Punch: polish the first of Judy's shoes.

What worries?

the things Goose was

"Why did he tell her to dig a new well?" asked Knarf.

"The new well was for Jack and Jill," said Hanid.

"They were always climbing

up the hill to the well to get a pail 1. Mr-Pu

of water, and then tumbling down and breaking their crowns Rinka very loud voicé, "And what were fother Goose Is as reál áš · I that poor Mother

or heads. Mother Goose was worried about them. If she real as you are as real

worried about?”

built a new well at the bottom Judy's, shoe which I am now

about the midille of polishing,

"Well," said

Punch, of the hill. her worries M

their falling down would be all Furthermore, know her "these were the things-"

over. Mr Punch was about to tell she came

when Som from behind that bookcase Knarf what they were

over there where the lives just teh: milioles (agoë”

“Oh,” mid. Knaff in a disap- ated voice, - "I wasn't here ten minutes ago."

veg: well. In fact,

In trouble

#That's why you missed see ing her,” said Mri Punch. "Now why did she come out to see me? Are you going to ask me wiły?”.

"Why?". ed Enarf.

Because

ered

in trouble!'

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"The next one." said Knarf,

suddenly, from the next room, is about building a lower wall." Judy began calling:

"Punch! Punch! Hurry, hurry, I have please, with my shoes! to get to the store before it closes!"

“Coming - right away, my dear!" Mr Punch called back.

Then he quickly said to Knart.

were.

“I haven't got time to tell you what her worries But this is what I told her to do to make them go away:

"I told her to dig a new well, to build a lower wall, to make

Bigger shoe

"That," said Hanid, “would be for Humpty-Dumpty. He worried 'Mother Goose because he was always falling off-or almost falling off. And if he ever fell-all the king's soldiers and all the king's men, wouldn't be able to put him together again!"

"The next one was to make a bigger, shoë” Kharf said.

"That's for the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. She

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"Mother Goose is as real RS Judy's shoe,” said Mr. Punch.

Knarf looked at Hanid, "Give who a penny?" he ask-

ed.

"Simple Hanid.

Simon-"

began

To buy a pie from the Pie- man!" he shouted.

always worried when But Kharf knew that one. they

wandered off and got lost. A big fence would

them keep

from wandering. What's the last one, Knarf?”

"The last one," replied Knarf, "is to give him a penny."

yes," said Mr Punch later,

were

all "those

of Mother Goose's worries, all right!"

Rupert and the Squire-42

the a

The Squire understands meaning of the Constable's look. "Yes.'

he breathes and, speaking more quietly than ever, he urges Rupert away. "There may be real rough action here in a few minutes if my ideas are correct," he says. **If so, it will be no place for

a

little bear. You've been wonderful help to us and now you must go home, not by the direct way or anyone coming here would see you." He suggests a round- about way out of the wood and Rupert pushes his way slowly through.

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