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By Herriman
Most of Us Don’t Have to Make Them Talk
Copyright, 1913, Internationa! .New• Service.
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W HEEZY was a sparrow, & very
big and strong and more than
ordinary cunning specimen of
that cunning tribe, and he waa rather
proud of himself, from his light waist
coat and high clack cravat to the beau
tiful browns of his back and the big
ness 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 oonspicu-
0U5.
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 only
come to see us in the winter are as
sociated in our minds with frost an<V
snow—driven to desperation by hun
ger, flew down to a big piece of bread
i.at had fallen near a laurel bush.
That was the surprise. Andy of the
puffed-out bird, assembled there in that
white and bitter scene, could have told
him what would happen if he settled
near that bush when the birds were
being fed. I
Next instant that fieldfare was deaV
—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,
since the birds kept carefully out of
is reach.
]Vtore 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
af to share with no other birds, and
landed upon the bread, to snatch - up
which, under the dreaded ‘'ginger’s”
very whiskers, and remove at top speed
or the 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 t ie 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
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
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 fall*?/
upon the raisins within the trap, an-i
he liked raisins, and really knew noth
ing at all about traps, for robins are
trusting birds. Next moment, he flew
down 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 round ten min
utes later to lock up his sheds for the'
night, and then the. robin was dead.'
Wheezy sat on in his tree top arVl
chirped.
The gardener, however, swore. Also
he scratched his head, and in his tern-
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Showing the Dangers That Await the Unsus
pecting at Our Great Railroad Stations
By Hershfield
Dauntless Durham of the U. S. A
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Your lover
Durham is
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KATRIMA KNOW l
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EXPRESS•
•TOMORROW —
By Cliff Sterrett
Well, Anyway, a Cat Has Nine Lives
Copyright, 1913, International Ifeer* Service.
PA\yyj VHATiMK
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YviwulM BE CARTFUL
flOMl/ You lAJPACK.
THAT UMILAMDCmM
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pOSniL/ELV,
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BUY HE& GoT MOREi
RECuPER/TTME ,— 1
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urauuaiiy it began to move upward.
Inch by Inch it rose, till soon tt was
five feet from the ground, and still go
ing higher. It was a rat climbing. Rats
I 1 ' 1 ''"mb well, and Ivy is. of courRp,
. a ,?J t i.^ cale - This one was climbing
?hI ™I Vh j ezy ’ havln S heard him from
the ground.
tilf'au'L he hearer and nearer,
„ '.all Of a sudden, there was a spring
a nd a rush, a wild rustles of leaves, and
a scream from Wheezy.
however, had heard the rus-
tho J ?rf frac tlon of a second before
the rat sprang, and, with his unlaua
8prane eS he InS t tant J y acted - The rat
mfle beou st J uck ,. wlth his powerful
"i le heak and with all his might at
the murderer s gleaming eves and
promptly fell frtnS hta plrcA He el
tho e !nss t ^? ref0 . re ’ w *th no more than
was ?o S c2me. ,eW fea,hers ' But wor9e
fetched up In mid-air, and
did so « b und *S the ro °f, and as h.
It w?; = brown form swooped at him.
it was a wood owl. Wheezv dodeeri
m^t bvlm?? f ° r i the ivy ’ onIy t0& bp
Rii^rieni,. anotheT L nw • We turned, and
» enly was half blinded by a red
So, fa Tt . fascinated him. The erfFj
d n ot con !, e there, nor would the
»t'iJ o eerae u to hlm that if he could
get In there he would be safe. Ru-
r.iSPf'F he beat aaglnst the window.
fl„,,eHo- Ud : t !\. ud went his little body,
o“ft*ring at the glass, and all at once
whoFe P ho'use h ® had awakened the
"It’s All Right.”
wtiTuu.® Cft nie a scream from the room
Koi.YJilj' a lt. man . 9b °uted' hoarsely; doors
rffJSi * ^lndow was flung up. and
clouds of smoke poured from it; people
I H4V/E
By Tom McNamara
Eaglebeak Puts One Over on the Googly Editor
R«fi»t0r*d PnltEti Patent Office
WA»T A MINUTE, DON'T
what's The difference
HEY SKINNY, 6ET CHA Nntl
CCANV It I Ci ID 'VAIt A ’
FOOO FOR, FANS
COOKED
| READY, 1U SUP YOU A
) 6006LY FOR. YOUR
1 DEPARTMENT ! r—“
shoot yet; I HAVE TO
6fT MY PENCIL SOS
i can wRtTt him down )
FER NOTHW
between a squirrel's
feathers
SERVED
8Y SOLLY, THE RE IS
COIN6 TO 3E ONE HOT
game to-day, i should say:-
EAfclEBEAK IS 60/NC* TO BE
.IN THE BOX FOR. US AND
W16GLEY' 1 WATSON, A NEUi GDY
IS GOING TO CHUCK FOR THEN
THERE "SOUTHlES”— EVERYBODY
Says ujiggley'is some Tujirler.
HE is A LEFT HANDER.
TH£ ANSWER is SPINACH
SKINNY SHANERS GOOGLY dept
SHANE R's
FASY„ ten
drawing " al/
LESSONS
(EUER.V owe A CINCH!
FlSHfiS
Railroad TRAOc
(OR CAR TRACK I DON'T
QiTJXim. t&
a/n'i is there no such
AS A U1H0LE DAY? —
ASA U1H0LE DAY? - WELL HOW
can they be, ooVr every day
feREAK? - SURE (T 00, DOnY AR60E
H0WJI Avl ter- dJUy'
FROM c. T. HUBBARD-HARTFO^Y CDHW.
what part of a fish IS LIKE
the end of a BOOK. ?
take a slant in To-morrows paper ■ j
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TTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. MAY 14. 191:1.