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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

By MAX TRELL

street DOWN

went THE Khari, the Shadow Roy with the Turned-About Name:

Sometimes he jumped as he rồi 6:8: bumping against lamp posts and the sides of horses

the

Finally Knarf reached corner. Here be almost bumped into his friend, Foliceman.

"Hello, Policeman," said Knari.

Knarf And Policeman

-They Both Like To Play The Game Of “Pretend”---

"I was just wondering," said the Policeman.

"I'm pretending I'm a rubber my house to right here. It's fun ball," said Knarf.

to pretend you're a ball." The Policeman nodded. "Did

ever pretend you you anything, Policeman?" were Knarf asked.

"Once," answered the Police- man, "I pretended I was an umbrella."

"That's why," said Knarf, "I bounced up and down, and spun and bumped "Hello. Boy" returned the round and round Policeman

into things all the way from

Rupert and the Paper-fall-15

While Ruseri tries to fathem the the mystery of the names co paper his pals gradually turn back to their examination of his shiny Dew car. Then be decides what to do. "These little people 1 met seemed terribly keen to collect

the papers that fell," he says. Imst try to take this one

ALL RIGHTS

has: As noo cl to them.

you had a Christmas present expect you'd rather stop and play with my car. Please take good care cí it I He sets cf. and before he has gone far he hears someone behind him. He turns to End Edward Trunk stumping along after him. RISIRVED

Four D. Jones OUR HERO HAS

PASSED THRI BY MADDOCKS. TIME, MATE

CALM YOURSELF JONES. CALM

YOURSELF

STRANGE MUSIC IS HEARD¬

STACK ME! THE PIPES OF

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CUT ALONG HERE TO

like rain, it didn't rain at all. Then I became a sunshine-um- I became a parasol. I

brella. kept the faces."

sun from

Anything else?

People's

Knarf wanted to know, if the be Policeman had pretended to anything else besides brella.

an um-

Police-

"Oh, yes," said the man. "I pretended to be a bubble."

Knarf looked surprised. "A bubble?" he repeated.

"A round shining soap bub-

to

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"I'm pretending I'm a rubber ball," Knarf told Policeman.

be a Policeman."

Knarf let out a gasp.

"I'm really still a small Boy just like you," the Policeman

Knarf looked puzzled. "How did you pretend you're an umbrella?" he asked.

ble," ncdded the Policeman. to be one thing. I pretend to "It was easy," said the Police- "When I wasn't pretending

used to lean against be an umbrella, I pretended to man. "I the wail near the door when- be a bubble. ever it was a cloudy day, when- ever it looked like rain. Then I'd go out. Sometimes I went out with my father. Sometimes I went out with my mother. Sometimes I went out by my- self."

"Umbrellas themselves,'

never go out by said Knarf.

Different kind "You're right," said the Po- liceman. "But I was a differ- end kind of umbrella. I was an out-by-myself-umbrella!"

um-

"I'm glad I'm not an brella," said Knarf. "Umbrellas get 'all wet."

"That's what I found out," said Policeman. "Except that lots of times when I went out on cloudy days when it looked

NO IT AIN'T, WELL I'M BLOWED, IT'S A FAIR GROUND- YEAH! A FUN-

FAIR

Floated and shined

"I went floating down the street, shining with all the col- ours of the rainbow."

that

"I like that," Knarf said. "It was lots of fun," agreed the Policeman. "except one day I burst."

"Oh," said Knarf. "That's a shame."

That's one of the troubles of being a bubble," said the Po- liceman. "I don't pretend to be a bubble any more. I don't pre- tend to be any umbrella any more, either."

you

"What do be?" Knarf asked.

pretend to

The Policeman looked around, then he leaned over and whis- pered to Knarf, "I just pretend

THE HOOP MUST HAVE

THE HOUDAY SPIRIT

said.

Knarf ran all the way home. Sometimes he pretended to be a rubber ball, bumping against things.

Knarf pretended Sometimes he pretended to be an umbrella with his hands over his head, keeping off the make-believe rain.

Sometimes he pretended to be a bubble, floating through the

air.

Sometimes he pretended to be a Policeman, taking big steps.

But the rest of the time and the most of the time he didn't pretend to be anything at all, a hungry Boy, running just home for lunch.

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THE ALFALME OF SWITZIELAM?

7-

NANCY

ZENIA TIL KEKIKANKERES

OUR CAR

IS SO OLD. AND CORNY

WE CAN'T AFFORD A NEW ONE,

DEAR

BRICK BRADFORD

IT LOOKS LIKE A BRACESAPLT VOLD SAY IT HAS MANNED!

WHY DO YOU SAY THAT?

READ THAT THE BEST WAY TO IMPROVE · AN OLD CAR---

WELL, IN ONE PICTURE IT IS A BUR....IN ANOTHER IT 19 TRAVELLING IN AN CRSIT WITH TIROS AND AT THE SAVE SPEED!

-IS TO SOUP-UP

THE MOTOR

WILL YOU GO UP, TRACK IT DOWN, AND

MAKE SURS?

YES! DO YOU WANT.

TO SEND ANY OBSERVERS?

By Ernie Bushmiller

-ERNIE BUSHMILLER

By Paul Norris

I'LL ASSIGN AN

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"THAT SPACE VEHICLE!

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