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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. MAY 14. 1913. The Dingbat Family *.*& Most of Us Don’t Have to Make Them Talk Copyright, 1913, International News 8enitf /SqT P&OUD BE6 VooTEH y'REFl£E-N 1 To Tauc To /Hew hen * But i sujem x. AYE E>V THE COD R6D RAA/A/E.L SWlftT,— i OP /M£GfefeAT VAXU.B. I SUuEAR. THAT \^H. THE dav hath PLeWAI I 'will j IHAl/t /UADE. You 3AV C / Someth mjg; Y'neac *£« UiMA/U, Y '' x By Herriman Old Wheezy* (^SOMETH </Ug ) Dauntless Durham of the U. S. A. Showing the Dangers That Await the Unsus pecting at Our Great Railroad Stations Copyright, 1913, International News Service. By Hershfield jwAniMfar ROOM^II Ha.HA.WEWI*) &**!?”* M€R wav , 1 eoaRO THtTOMM — ’to meet hsr for. ciwcimapolis LOvCR. DU'<ha,m I 1-™ HUM T FoR MV SH€ /MOST «y HfR 0 DURHAM MIW£ , SOSPfCT HF HAS M€T ROOC Play by Des monW haw») JgS train/ lem/cs *^4 ON TRACK 3a' Ou*ck;i voishtd CHARTER A PRIVATE CAR!(MO\W Tt> SWIPE SOME PORTER'S Clothes Katrina must fall iwto V MY TRAP) w ~~ i LITTLE DOCS MY , KATRIWA KNOW THAT I HAVE (.EFT lCINClNAPOLIS Tt> (SURPRISE her with! Polly and Her Pals Well, Anyway, a Cat Has Nine Lives Copyright, 1913, International News Service. By Cliff Sterrett y’mm m Ireful fLCMJ YOU (AIR4CK That hav/iumdCh/ha PA. IT£ THE APPZE or M-di-T EVe! f ML 4eZ4 6a our! I dome "This/ ^toce. 'jbo w/AS BorkI. •<r«o! , •gouHO Fl/PouTE. To M4'i> ATTENTIVE EAR. <*> A / i o ?v »v \V PAW* WHAT VMS "WAT ClwSH? T rtE/H/EOdV PAYS’- 1 1 N W HEEZY was a sparrow', a very big and strong and more than ordinary cunning specimen of that cunning tribe, and he w r as rather proud of himself, from his light waist coat and high clack cravat to the beau tiful browns of his back and the big- neflx of his heavy thick beak, but he was not proud of the wheeze which had given him his "nick” name. It was a distinct disadvantage in the wild. It drew the attention of his enemies too much to him; made him too conspicu ous. He discovered that someone was feed ing the tits and robins and wrens out side the backdoor. He promptly left off chirping he could not leave off wheez ing—and started. And the more he stared the more surprise took hold of him. A fieldfare -one of those big, very pretty thrushes that have an .odd, laughing cry, and because they oi\ly come to see us in the winter are a^-, f sociated in our minds with frost and snow—driven to desperation by hun ger, flew down to a big piece of bread hat had fallen near a laurel bush. That was the surprise. Andy of the puffed-out bird, assembled there in that I white and bitter scene, could have told I him what would happen if he settled ' near that bush when the birds were , being fed. * Next instant that fieldfare was dead —slain by the paw and jaw of the ’■ginger" cat, who always hid in that laurel when the birds were being fed, and was none the richer, as a rule, once the birds kept carefully out of is reach. More Than a Meal. Then did Wheezy move. He dropped instantly like a stone with almost com pletely closed wings, in that extraor dinary way which sparrows have, and f to share with no other birds, and landed upon the bread, to snatch up i which, under the dreaded "ginger’s" j very whiskers, and remove at top speed i >r t£e orchard. The piece of bread was a big one, a beautiful lump of | •’•umb, a little larger than a walnut. It was a meal for half a day or more. Then he sat on a low bough, just above a trap, and set up that peculiar low and wicked chirping which you may hear when a sparrow curses you, ! or the next-door neighbor’s cat. The swearing of the sparrow is a very monstrous and annoying sound. It annoyed the cock-robin who owned that 4 particular corner of the garden, and with the robin’s usual dashing intoler* | ance, he flow straight at Wheezy, nearly knocking that bird off his perch, and sending him to the top of another' j tree near by. After which, the robin perched on the bough so bravely won, ; and sang his song of victory. But in the middle of it he stopped [short. His full, clear eye had fallqn 1 upon the raisins within the trap, aril ■ he liked raisins, and really knew noth ing at all about traps, for robins are & I trusting birds. Next moment, he flew clown and hopped inside, and—well, the top brick came down, and the next time poor robin issued from the trap was when the gardener came roufid ten min- ( utes later to lock up his sheds for thte ■* , night, and then the robin was dead. Wheezy sat on in his tree top and chirped. The gardener, however, swore. Also j scratched his head, and in his tem- I per scattered the bricks of the trap. His master and mlstres, you see. loved rob- \ v YhK here is j POSTTIV/ELV^- TW LAST *5\ RAW 1 . flto. 1k'imda Rou6H on ToM BUT HE'S" <j6T MORE Recuperative FbltfER ~THAU t HAVE » Us Boys Eaglebeak Puts One Over on the Googly Editor R*Ci»te:«d United States Patent By Tom McNamara 'WET SKINNY, GET CHA NiifT | READY, lit SUP YOU A j feOOGLY FOR. YOUR I DEPARTMENT! j—' \ fer. Nothin • J f what's The difference between a squirrel's FEATHERS \ WAIT A MINUTE, DON'T SHOOT YET | HAVE TO | GET MY pencil SOS i CAN WRlTP HIM Down \ fishes’ ( fv HIND . LEGS ? f/T JT ( AND A - ) " T\ J TH E ANSWER IS, SPINACH ) AIN'T FRUIT! / v o<§> > 1< .OM Tmara POOD FOR FANS COOKED AND SERVED 81 GOLLY, THE RE IS GOING TO SE ONE HOT GAME TO-DAY, I SHOULD SAYI- EA6LEBEAK iS GOING TO 36 .IN THE 80* FOR US AND WlGGLEY" WATSON, A NEW GDY, IS GOING TO CHUCK FOR THEM THERE “SOUTHIES"- EVERYBODY SAYS WlGGLEV'lS SOME TuJIRlER HE IS A LEFT HANDER. £& SKINNY SHANSR'S S006LT DEPT SHANERS EASY DRAWING LESSONS -i-i , , Ceuea.'f one a cinch! . kAILROAD TRAlK (or car track i don't Qsrxu^i to- «/HY IS THERE \o SUCH f H m AS A WHOLE DAY?-well HOW can They be. dont every’ day BREAK? * SURE IT 00, OOffT ARGUE.' H0W&, cm fa&i to- duOiy' FROM C. T. HUBBARD- HARTFORD, WRATPARTOFAFISH is like the end of a BOOK. ? Take ASLANT LN TO-MQKROU'6 PAPER ' j ings and hated sparrowa, and things | might go badly with him if he were j caught slaying robins. So he went away to hide his victim somewhere—in a | r &t’s hole, I think—and when he came back a fat litle cock-sparrow coolly, flew up from among the remnants of the trap and departed wheezing. There were no raisins left, and it was clear that poor cock-robin had had no time to eat them before he died. A Rat Climbing. That night Wheezy roosted in the thick ivy which clung to the southwest side of the house. He did so because the wind was northeast;, had it been west he would have roosted on the east side. Gradually the house grew quiet as the hours slipped on, and one by one the lights went out. It was still snowing slightly, and was very still. Nor was it dark. True, there was no moon, but the snow made up for the moon, so you could distinctly se, from time to time, the shadow form of a rat, hopping across the open from buch to bush. Suddenly a rustling noise sounded at the base of the ivy Gradually it began to move upward. Inch by inch it rose, till soon it was five feet from the ground, and still go ing higher*. It was a rat climbing. Rats do climb well, and ivv is, of course wt? 08,1 ®’ u This on ° was Himbinl. the grounrt eZy ' avlr>S heard him from ,n? l ?Y ly . he d J? w hfearer and nearer, oll/i a of * su dden, there was a spring and a rush, a wild rustles of leaves and a scream from Wheezy t . W |j, e ^ zy ’ however, had heard the rus- IhVrot ! fraction of a second before the rat sprang, and, with his unique quickness, instantly acted The ra* sprang, he struck with his powerful little beak and with all his might af the murderer’s gleaming eyes and promptly fell from his perch He caped. therefore, with no more than wV^Vo'me" ^ feaU ’ erS - But e w‘o h r^ Wheezy fetched up ! n mid-air and dfd W so U ‘ r t?" nd to the roof ’ arid M Si did so. a brown form swooped at him. and dived L°°L d e° Wl ' Whp e*y dodged, and dived back for the ivv, only 1o he met by another owl. He turned and eV(li enIy r. W e as ,. haif Winded by a red glare rt fascinated him. The owls rale ’ i?°se con \ e ,h ere. lor would the ^■ei 'in U .nt v t0 hlm that ,f he could get In there he would be safe Fu- "Thud thnd ^ at d" aag,nRt thp window. fl uttering "a t'tlie 1 gl^'a^ wboFe Pe ho r use. that he ha<1 awakened lke ' “It’S All Right.” T h .!r e came a scream from the rooi within a man shouted hoarsely; dooi ri a nnds d i,f ttlP Y WaR fi 'tn|? Up! HI clouds of smoke poured from it; peop! = tKv? red i.i fr< L ni , nowt tere. and rushe about with buckets; there was almoi continuously the hissing sound whir water makes upon fire: once a v\ boozy lay half stunned upon the son on the window still, he saw the re gleam of flames; then the choking smoh grew less and less; some one went cai tering away on a horse, and more peop! came rushing up- out of the night, an Wheezy heard a man call uot- "It’s all right. We’ve got it und< control. A bird woke us up flutteHn at the window, or we’d have been burr ed to death. Yes. it’s all right; only ! few chairs and some curtains." Then W heezv knew no more When he awoke he was in a b!j I warm cage, in a big, warm room, wit I heaps and beans of delicacies io es and plenty to drink. They had foun him lying, all limp and nearly frozei I on the windowsill next morning.