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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

By MAX TRELL

If Teddy Were Real

-He'd Spend The Winter Sleeping In A Cave-

"I HEAR," said Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, to his friends Knarf, the Shadow Boy with the Turned-About Name, and Hiawatha, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian, “that it's going looking puzzled and impatient to be winter.

at the same time.

"I mean," he added, looking He was looking at pictures of sadly at his two friends who sailing ships. They didn't have didn't seem to be paying much anything to do with winter at attention to what he was say- all. They were just sailing along ing, "that it's going to get on the blue ocean under the colder and colder-and colder shining sun.

-

and colder and colder and "It's going to get cold," Ted- colder. It's going to get very dy went on. “And I think—” cold. It's going to be....win-

"Just come here and look at ter."

this picture," said Knart. "It's about a sailing ship that went hunting after Whales."

Stretched out Having finished this long peech Teddy, who was sitting on the floor with his back rest- ing against the bookcase, let himself stretch out. He waited

for Kaarf or Hiawatha, or both of them, to say something.

Krari was looking at some pictures in a book.

Hiawatha was standing and shading his eyes with his hand while he stared at something behind the bookcase.

"well?" said Teddy to his two friends. "Well!" he said in a lounder voice. "Well!" he A- rally shouted.

Kharf now looked up from his book. Hiawatha, however, kept staring at whatever he was staring at behind the book- case. He didn't move.

"Well what, Teddy?" asked Koari.

Teddy tiredly pulled himself up from the floor and went over to look at the picture of the sailing ship in Knarr's book.

"I wish I were on it," he said. "So do I," said Knart. "I'd like to go somewhere nice and warm," said Teddy.

if he were real

"Where are wanted to know.

we?"

Teddy

look at the cave in the rock. It was dark inside. They stuck their heads in.

After a moment their eyes grew used to the darkness.

"Look, Teddy!" exclaimed Knarf.

Teddy looked. Deep inside the cave, all curled up, was a small It was the same

It was

fast

Teddy's amazed "Is that what I'd be doing in the winter if I were a real Bear?" Teddy exclaimed.

"Sh-h," warned Knarf. "You'll wake yourself up!"

"Hiawatha is going to show brown Bear. you where you'd spend the win- size as Teddy, the same shape, ter if you weren't stuffed," said the same colour. Knari.

asleep.

Hiawatha sprang over the Hiawatha didn't say anything. brook. He led the way up one At least he didn't say anything of the hills. Knart and Teddy that anyone — except, perhaps, followed him past trees, higher another wooden Indian — could and higher until, finally, Hia- understand. He just grunted. watha stopped. :

"What do you mean?” asked Teddy.

Hiawatha grunted again and pointed behind the bookcase.

Knarf and Teddy both went This time Hiawatha over to the corner of the book- grunt. He said one word. case and tried to see what Hia- word was "Cave!" watha was pointing at. But all Teddy and Knarf went they could see were the backs of the books.

"You'd better show said Teddy.

He wished that would only talk words of making grunts.

He pointed to a spot in the rocky side of the hill, half-hid- den by old trees

and covered with moss.

Hiawatha uttered one Jast grunt before he turned and led almost Teddy and Knarf back to the room again. This time the grunt didn't didn't sound like a grunt. It

The didn't sound like a word.

"It sounded," said Teddy, a to little insulted, "like a laugh!”

me, Hi," Rupert and the Winter Sale-13

Hiawatha

They follow Hi

instead

Again Hiawatha grunted. He "If you were a real Bear, squeezed himself in behind the Teddy, instead of being a bookcase. Knarf and Teddy fol- Stuffed Bear," said Knarf, "do lowed. you know where you'd go when the winter came?"

Teddy said he didn't have the least idea where he'd go when the winter came if he were a real Bear instead of being a Stuffed one.

Knarf turned to Hiawatha. "Hi," he said, “Teddy wants to know where he'd go for the winter if he were a real live Bear instead of being stuffed

"Winter," said Teddy. "what about it?” asked Knarf, with sawdust."

For a minute or two, it was But dark behind the bookcase. all of a sudden Hiawatha found what seemed to be an opening about the size of a large key- hole. And, once they were through and out on the other side, it grew bright.

They seemed to be in open country with a brook running on one side and hills covered

trees with rocks and

on the other. It was good and cold.

While he is hesitating Rupert has a bright idea. Muinmy brought me up that moving staircase," he thinks. "If she's going back to the main entrance she'll have to go back down the other one. If I căn go down first I may see her on the

Four D. Jones JONES INSISTS THAT THE MAJOR WATERS HIS OWN GARDEN & LIT IS MIZED..

BY MADDOCKS

THAT'S IT! GO ON THEN LIFT THE LID AND

PERFORM

IT COMES TO SOMETHING WHEN A MILITARY MAN HAS TO WATER HIS OWN GROUND-

NUTS WITH A BLESSED

JUJU BOX

BLOUDNOX GROUND-NUT FARM

way out." So he is soon on the ground floor continuing his seatch. To his delight, after a long wait he catches a glimpse of the familiar pattern on a coat moving as fast as ever, and he dashes between many people to keep close to it.

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