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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

By MAX TRELL MARY JANE, the Rag Doll, was sitting under the shair. Next to her sat fat Teddy, the Stuffed Bear. For about an hour they didn't say suything.

Then, Anally, Mary-Jane

When Teddy Grows

--Hell Be A Tall And Straight Policeman→

were

"What will you do that for To stop automobiles," Teddy explained.

•

"And after you stop them, what will you do?" asked Mary- Jare.

"I'll wave and let them go on again," answered Teddy,

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"Be it?" he repeated, "What "I am!" exclaimed Teddy,

am I going to be?" suddenly smiling. "I'm going to Mary-Jane was puzzled "A long time ago." said Mary- be one when I grow up." Teddy's stopping automobiles

When are you going to be Jane. "you told me you "Oh, Teddy," said Mary-Jane, and letting them go on again.

it, Tectly?” going to be a Policeman some "that's wonderful! I'd love you But she was sure that he knew

Teddy looked puzzled. as a Folleeman. Would you wear

day. what he was doing being

a uniform?" Policeman. "Of course," said Teddy. "Some days," Teddy went on. "What's a Policeman without a "I' stop runaway Horses. uniform?" Some days I jump in the river "As soon as I become a Po- People from crown- liceman. As soon as I grow up,"

"And would you have a club?" and save I'll arrest Teddy replied.

asked Mary-Jane. ing. Some days "Will that be Very lung?"

People."

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The two pals at last reach a way "out of the cleft. "We'd beiter go home now," says Rupert. "So put down thar broen. Why *m you will ägging about with it? It doesn't belong to us. We must have it here." Ber 1 cc'r les go of it !"* gasps Pudgy.

"

mus have some magic. My hands seem to be stuck to it; Oh, dear, I want to go home." The moment he speaks an extraordinary thing happena The broad moothly into the air and swings away with Podgy still clinging to iz!

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tises

"Certainty," replied Teddy.

Silver shield?

"What kind Mary-Jane asked,

of

ว

"And a silver shield?" Mary- alarmed.

Jane asked.

"Would you wear a uniform*” Mary-Jane asked Teddy.

People?" asked Mary-Jane

little

Con't teli

"I don't know," said Teddy.

"Bad People," said Teddy, "I might grow up any day now. "Of course. And I'll walk up "But I won't do that very often. You never can tell when you and down, looking very tall and Because most People will be might grow up. It might be a straight," Teddy added. good. They won't want to be day. It might be a week. It

"You're not very tall and arrested straight now, Mary-Jane said, glancing around it Teddy. "You look more like a ball then any-

thing else."

Help cross street

might even be two weeks. But grow up, all right. Every Policeman that's walk-

"Most of the time. I'll stand ing around now was once as "I'll be tall and straight when on the busiest corner in town small as I am. They all grew I grow up," Teddy reminded and take little Children across up, so why shouldn't ""

her.

"Oh," said

from ene side of the street to Mary-Jane, the other."

Mary-Jane smiled. She said she hoped the day would come very quickly when Teddy would She could think of

me grow LIÐ. nothing nicer than Teddy Policeman.

happy.

"If I came along." Mary-Jane

forgot," "After become a Police sad. "would you take man," Teddy on, "Tl across?" weni stand in the middle of the street and hold my hand up."

"JONES IS NOW

Four D. Jones DRIFTING AROUND

BY BADDOCKS

(ENGLAND IN A CLOUD OF CANDY FLOSS "HELLO, IS THAT THE ARMY 7 – THERE IS A RED SPY DISGUISED AS A CLOUD DRIFTINGĮ

ABOUT

A RED WHAT, DOING WHICH, WHERS AND WHEN?

FERDINAND

UP ABOVE, IF

YOU WOULD

"Of course." said Teddy. "When?" asked Mary-Jane.

CARE TO GLANCE OUT OF

YOUR

WINDOW

THE ARMY MAN STUDIES THE CLOUD

| FORMATION, AND THEN.....

GAD YES, I SEE IT

NOW LAO, KEEP THIS BETWEEN OURSELVES, LET ME HANDLE IT PERSONALLY

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OHN Revezoulis of Sheboygan, Wis., is a dark- haired boy who would rather have his hands on a keyboard than a baseball.

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