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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

MAX TRELL

EVERYONE in the house agreed on it. They were sure they had seen it happen

-and

yet and yet they really weren't positive that it actually had happened!

Everyone Is Puzzled

-Where Did Mrs. Cuckoo Fly Anay To?

was exactly half-past five when distinctly. She was carrying satchels, one under each It all had to do with Mrs she opened her door and looked two

She thought wing!" Cuckoo, who lived inside the around the room. clock that hung on the wall everyone was fast asleep. But

I heard her. She waited a min- Kaarf, the Shadow Boy, said between the bookcase: and the

-ute or two at the door, then he had also seen Mrs Cuckoo window.

still By out of her clock. What everyone, In the house she flew away. It was

pitch dark. She was carrying was almost sure had happened

"But it was very dark," he a satchel!". was that Mrs Cuckoo had

admitted. "Maybe we just flown out through the open "Quite right, quite right, thought she flew away. She window just before-morning. ma'am!" General Tin, the Tin might still be inside the clock."

"Yes! She dew away!" Ted- Soldier, said. "I was standing dy, the Stuffed Bear, said. "I under the window with my saw her with my own eyes! musket over my shoulder. I was I saw her open her door and guarding this

as I do When they heard this they fly away!

every night in the year, Winter all decided to make sure whe- I saw her with my own eyes," and Summer, Spring and Au- ther Mrs Cuckoo was still inside be repeated. "With my own tumn. It's almost the last day of the clock or not. They all stood "Stop being so silly, you silly the year but I was guarding the under the clock and shouted up. Bear" Hanid the Shadow Girl room last night just the same. Mrs. Cuckoo, are you there?" with the "Turned-About Name, said to Teddy, “Of course, you saw her with your own eyes. You couldn't see her with any- body else's eyes, could you?””

Really saw her

"But I really saw her open the door of the clock and fly But through the window!" Teddy

Insisted

room

Heard door opening

“All of a sudden I heard Mrs Cuckoo's door open. Before I could say Who goes there?' she had flown out of the window!"

"Now who would think that

Made sure

And then, at that moment, there was

a whirr, of wings. Something

in dark 'flashed through the partly open win- dow and disappeared in the dir- ection of the cuckoo-clock.

The next second, the door of

á Cuckoo-Bird would ever take the clock flew open. Mrs Cuckoo it into her worden head to fy was standing there. She smiled away!" Mrs Punch exclaimed, down at all her friends standing "And I saw ber, too!" said "But she flew out through the under the clock.

the Rag Doll. "It window all right. I saw her "I'm here," she said.

last day of the year." Then she returned inside her clock and shut the door.、

to

It took

everyone a long time

guess what Mrs Cuckoo

might have done when she flew

"But, Mrs Cuckoo,"

said away. And the guess was that Hanid, "you were away.

We all she had used up all her Hours. and had gone off saw you fly out of the window and Minutes

Where did somewhere no one could tell with two satchels. you go? Why did you fly away? where to fill up her two satch- How did you get back? What did els with brand new Hours and Minutes to use all the next you have in your two satchels?" and said very softly:

Mrs Cuckoo just smiled again year in her clock.

can't tell you anything, tomorrow is the except this

"I

For what clock can tell peo- ple the time if it has used up all its Hours and Minutes?

Rupert and the Winter Sale-24

When Rupert has finished the coat. •"'I'm glad you helped that Lady smiles at him. "I don't lady," says the nurse. **She's a think I could give you that sort of good customer and although she's present,' she says gently, so rich she enjoys coming to especially if the hat has been sales, just like everybody else."! sold.” But the shopman looks "Does everybody like sales?" very thoughtful and, calling her to

asks Rupert in astonishment. the side of the office, talks quietly..

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