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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Teddy Knows A Secret

He Wants Knarf, The Shadow, To Guess What It Is—

By MAX TRELL

TEDDY, the Stuffed Bear, came

with

the

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very slowly, very loudly, and very, very mysteriously.

"You're fooling" said Knarf, Not fooling

Here Knarf interrupted Teddy to ask what he thought had happened to the first crumb.

"Didn't he swallow it?" he

"No, he didn't," said Teddy. "How do you know that?" Knart asked.

"Oh, but I'm not fooling," asked. said Teddy. "This is exactly what happened. Chirpie came to the window sill, picked up a then " crumb in his bill and

"And then he swallowed it,” said Knarf.

This made Knarf.really won der.

"What are you getting at, up to his friend Knarf, Teddy?" he asked. Shadow Boy

"What I'm trying to

say,"

"Oh no, he didn't swallow it ined-About Name.

said Teddy, "is that Chirple at all," said Teddy. "He flew window away with that crumb still in "Did you hear what happened Sparrow came to the

A few minutes later, morning?” Teddy asked in sill and took the bread crumbs his bill. mysterious voice.

but he did not eat a single one." he came flying back for another Krant, who was just making Teddy said these last words crumb."

hy himself:comfortable in favourite place between the cur take -- and the bookcase, gave Teddy a look.

What happened, old boy?"

be seked Tekly.

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“A friend of yours came to the window sill this morning,"

Feddy said.

Kharf nodded his head.

"I

It was Chirpie Sparrow."

who it was,” said

“But you don't know why he "sald Knarf, thinking that Teddy didn't know that Chispie Sparrow came to the window sill regularly every morning for bis breakfast bread crumbs.

However, before he had a chance to say this. Teddy ex-

“And if you think that Chirpie me for the bread crumbs he is gvery moming, you're ab- olyśely wrong!”.

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"I asked him,” said Teddy. "Well," said Knarf, "if he flew off with the bread crumb and didn't swallow it, what did he do with it?"

Here Teddy looked very mys- terious again.

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Chirple took the bread crumb and flew away with it.

"That's what I want you to guess," he said to Knarf. "What crumbs to three strange Spar- I want you to guess is.

"What rows?”

did Chirple Sparrow do with the crumb that he flew away with?'

Can't guess

"Oh. but they aren't," said Teddy.

"They aren't strangers at all, "And they aren't just friends of his, either." he said hurriedly say any- before Knart could thing.

Knarf shook his head. "H-mmm." he kept saying.

For several minutes Knarf tried his best to think of the answer. But finally he had to admit to Teddy that he was not able to guess what Chirpie "Who could he have given the Sparrow might have done with crumbs to?" any of the bread crumbs he flew off with.

"All right." said Teddy, "I'll tell you.

To his children

Teddy laughed out loud "Why, to his three Children, of course."

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three

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A smile was on Teddy's lips All Knarf could say after this as he said this, for it was a was that he didn't know that long time since he knew some- Chirpie Sparrow bad thing that Knarf didn't know. Baby Sparrows sitting

"Come on, tell me!" Knarf nest, waiting for their Father urged, growing impatient.

to bring

their-morning "He flew off and gave them bread crumbs. to three other Sparrows." said Teddy.

Knart fairly shouted: "Three other Sparrows! should be give his good

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"Thank you for telling me,' he said to Teddy. "Tomorrow I'm going to leave four portions Why of bread crumbs, one for Chirpie bread and three for his Children,'

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