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Bunny bob cottontot ha.i i
?omc little friends living at the i
?dge of Clover Meadow. They:
lived in a very tiny house painted ]
white with a red brick chimney start-:
ing at the ground and sticking away j
above it. They were Lilly and Phil |
and Baby Joscy, all curly-haired and
rosy-cheeked like fairy-story children.
Bunny Bob had been warned by his
mother not to make up to strangers,
but these children were so polite, so
generous with carrots and stood so
still whenever they saw the little
brown bunr.y come hopping out of the
■wild blackberry patch, that Bunny
Bob couldn't help making friends.
Lilly and Phil went to school and
knew' ever so many children. Some
times after school they would come
and play In Clover Meadow and Bun
ny Bob w’ould lie quiet as a mouse in
the thicket, watching the fun. And
in this way he got to know the chil
dren quite well, although he never let
them see him.
There was a dogwood tree growing
near the meadow and one day it was
all in full bloom.
"It can’t be snow!" thought Bunny-
Bob, sitting up on his hind legs and
looking at the tree all covered with
'white flowers. You see, Bunny Bob
was so young he couldn’t recollect
ever having seen any flowers. So he
humped nearer the tree and whift
whuffed, trying to Hgure out what it
all meant, and how a tree could have"
snow on it while all the ground was
warm and dry and covered with soft,
greeny things and sprinkled with pur
ple, pink, white, all smelling de-e-li
cious and all good to munch!
Well, as he stood there figuring, he
heard voices, and pretty soon he saw
his friends, Lilly and Phil and Josey.
But there were lots of others with
them, little girls and big girls and lit
tle boys and big boys and they planted
a pole in the middle of Clover
Meadow. The Pole had a bunch, of
pretty, nninehy, pink and white flow
ers on top, and ribbons streaming
down on all sides.
“Now!” cried one-of the big girls.
“Who’s going to be Queen of May?”
"Let’s chose!” said one of the big
boys.
"I think Margaret would make a
good Queen, she’s got such nice curls,"
said a little girl.
I'l think Lilly oughter be it, 'cause
site's nice." said Phil.
"No fair, choosing your own sister!”
cried another little boy.
"I wanna be Queen!" cried a little
girl, rubbing her chubby knuckles in
her eyes. "I won’t play ’less 1 can be
Queen ’’
Weil, Bunny Bob stood up straighter
and straighter and craned his neck up.
up, up. his bright eyes staring. He was
so interested! What was it all about?
He wondered. Y r ou see. he had a great.
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mILUKEB loved to carry notes
around from room to room in
the school. An<l for that rea
son she was ever so thankful
that she sat on tho first row. Just
inside the door tbut opened from the
principal’s ofllce—it was so easy to
see her that Mr. Oilhert often peeped
in the door and motioned to her with
out a word and siiu slipped out to get
the message.
Of course, she never rend the notes 1
ho sent around to the teachers, good |
messengers never look at the message 1
intended for others us you very well j
know, but sometimes the teacher
would read the message aloud and
then she would know what it was all 1
shout. But on a special morning In!
the spring time when Mr. Oil her t gave j
her a carefully folded pape’r which;
she was to show every teacher in the
building, not a teacher gave her a
hint what the metoug-- was. The
teachers, one after another, Just read
tho note and, refolding it carefully,
handed it back to her. So it wasn’t
till noon time when tho announce-!
ment was made to tho whole room '
that Mildred knew she hail helped cat! 1
a meeting of the whole school In tho j
assembly room that afternoon at |
three.
“TVu*t can It he root.;?" a*ki ’ I
Grace S 3 tho and Jllld.cd slipped on!
thisir rubbers and ntado resdv to gs'
home for lunrV "Jo you know?"
"I don't huow a thing!" exclaimed
Mildred "1 took a notice around this I
big bump of curiosity and he stretched i
and stretched so as to sec over the
top of a big, straggyly Mayapple leaf
he’d hidden behind. First thing he I
knew, his big, long- ears were sticking
out in plain view, so was his furry
forehead and his bright eyes, and
Phil pointed at him and cried:
"Oh, look! There’s our bunny!"
Bunny Bob ducked down, but soon
he heard Lilly coming.
, • ‘Jrlere, nice little bunny!” her voice
called, coaxingly. "Won’t you come
out and say how-d’ye-do?”
“Why not?” thought Bunny Bob,
and out he skipped.
The children all stood so still and
loqkcd so sweet. Bless their hearts!
Every one of them, that Bunny Bob
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just stood and smiled at them.
"Oh, I’ve an idea!" Lilly cried. “I’ll
get a carrot for each of us to hold
and we’ll form a lino and we’ll let
Hunfty choose the Queen of May! The
one he goes to will be Queen!"
Off ran Lilly, while the children
waited eagerly, and the biggest girl
got them all in line, with the boys
standing to one side. When Lilly
came back they were all ready. Each
big girl and each little girl took a
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TRUE
. morning and 1 expoct it was this
'cause ail the touchers ucteil as though
lit was importunt. llut 1 don’t really
| know. X thought Miss Ellis whispered
something about ’pigs this time,’ but
| I'm not sure.”
Other girls and some of the hoys
they pasued on the way home were
wondering too but nobody had a hint
|of what the meeting was about so tt
was no wonder that, when three
o’clock cam* und the various rooms
•ach marched In their turn Into the
fine assembly room, there was an air
of expectancy over the sehpol.
After the children had sung a couple
Ot patriotic songs, Air. Oilhert said.
"Of course, you children know what
'his meeting is about*'—but everybody
looked so surprised that he saw they
hadn’t guessed, so he explained.
"Vou'w! all seen tho Liberty laian pos
ters—Victory Loan they call It this
lime In honor of tho ending of the
war- und you’ve noticed how gay and
pretty they all nr". And you’ve been
wood* ring w ho . this school meant to
do about buying a bond." The chil
dren nodded. Their school hud lmd
such a fin- record before they ralurnl-!
ly wanted 'o keep It up. "This meet
ing la 'B lec.-i what we will do to:
lay s bond, il us any one any sue
i vestloii?’’
Not a ecu! answered. Perhaps if j
'here h d f>e< n me. » Hnj" to plan -!
but nobody !t i-g guessed that the flip
would come so soon. Of course, they
knew* another loan was coming, every
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Hop, Hop! Went. Bunny Bob. Ki&lit Up To Lilly.
carrot and all began to call and coax
the bunny.
Now, of course, the children, none
of them, knew quite what a sharp, lit
tle rascal Bunny Bob really was un
der his fluffy, gray-brown coat. They
thought he was only thinking about
carrots. But he wasn't! No, siree!
He hadn’t been watching under the
blackberry patch all this time for
nothing!
“Now, let me see!” he thought, be
ginning at the fartherest end of the
line, “there’s little Susie. Seems to
me' I saw her push her little sister
over once and snatch away a hall. 1
couldn’t choose Susie!
“Next, there's Mamie. Mamie is al
ways good-natured, but didn't I see
liter cheat one day? Yes, I did! No
i body else saw but I was crouching
j down near tlie ground and her foot
j wasn’t on the line when they started
Mite race. I’m sorry I can't choose
! Mamie!
i ”Tillie Is a. dear, but she’s always
I last to come to play. She always
comes pulling and saying: ’Well, I
was kept in again! Teacher has a
pick on me!’ I don’t know what it
all means, but somehow I don’t think
she’d do for the Queen!
"Next comes Sallie. She reminds
me of my cousin Bunny Mee. Always
wanting her own way. Well, I’d never
choose her!
"Margaret has pretty curls, but
pshaw! How she tosses them and
looks around tp be admired! And her
- body knew thatl But to plan, now.
I today! There wasn't an answer.
“Very weil then,” said Mr. Gilbert
i after lie bad waited a minute, ”1 want
to seo what you think of a plan we
have to offer. Mr. IJuncork, will you
please speak to them?”
At that Mr. Hancock, the hanker of
the llftle city where this happened,
stepped to the front und the children
all f lapped for ho was u favorite. Jte
explained flr.st just why the country
atlll needed the loan of money no that
soldiers could bo brought home und
ships built for more commerce und all
that anti then he said, "Now I've been
wondering what this fine school Is go
ing to do übout buying a bond."
John Hardy raised his hand and
said, "please, sir. we'll talk to folks
about buying but you see we've all
made our thrift stamp pledges and
we can't save any more money,”
Muon to John's surprise Mr. Hun
cock sc«inert pi -used with that auswvr
und replied, 'Tin glad you’re buying
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und It Just Ills in wl*h tny plAn Now
bow many of you scholars have a War
Havings Stump?" The children gig
gled! On" .itamp! Why everybody
had more than one by this time!
"Very good," said Mr. Hancock,
"now how many have a back yard?”
k’Jost everyone had that too. And then
he explained the plan to iha puzslad
children. He said he had a lot of
little p!g»—May new p.gs which ha
was going to let the children raise m
THE AUGUSTA HERALD.
sister Ruth Is always gossiping, al
though she has her good points.
“Lilly has red hair and a snub
nose, but really now I’ve never heard
her say a cross word or cheat or act
selfish and she’s awful good to me!
Of course, there may he other good
Queens here, but Lilly for mine!”
Hop, hop, went Bunny Bob, right
up to Lilly.
"I’m 'frald it's not fair," said Lilly.
“I’m sure he only chose mo ’cause he
knows me.”
"800-lioo, I wanna bo Quoen!" cried
Salllo. "’Tlsn’t fair!"
“Well,” said Lilly, "guess I have a
right to choose a Queen now, that Is,
If I don’t care to bo Queen myself. 1
choose little Sallte. She wants to be
Queen so much!”
Now, Bunny Bob gave an impatient
thump with his long little foot and
raced away quite disgusted, holding a
nice, red carrot in his mouth, and
thinking:
"I defo’t see why they bothered to
ask me, if they aren’t going to have
the Queen I chose!"
But ho ought to .have stayed, be
cause tlie boys were saying:
"It is fair!” and so were the girls,
and suddenly Bailie grew very red
und said slowly:
”1, why, Lilly, I want you to be
Queen! I guess the Bunny knew I—
that I—kind of like to havie my own
way too much. Hut you don’t, Lilly.
P’ease be Queen!”
Then the children grabbed Lilly
and put a gold paper crown on her
head and danced her to the May Pole.
"Choose a king! Choose a king!"
they cried, and Lilly chose Charlie,
the shy, new boy at school.
“Lilly, Lilly Is Queen of May!
Queen of May! Queen of May!
She’s the fairest and best today!
Lovely Lilly is Queen of May!"
Sang the children dancing, around
the May Pole.
Oh Bunny Bob ought to have stayed
and seen it, foolish, little rabbit to rur.
off!
n JUNIOR COOK
KSCALLOPHU OYBTJiH PLANT
Oyster plant is a valuable plant food
but is hard to prepare because It turns
black In peeling. This recipe will avoid
that and Is easy to follow.
Materials:
2 bunches (about It) roots) of
oyster plant
1 cup cracker crumbs.
2 cups milk.
2 tablespoons butter (or substi
tute.)
2 tablespoons flour.
1 teaspoon salt.
Paprika.
Wash roots but do not peel.
Drop into boiling water and cook for
ten minutes.
Drain off hot water and plunge Into
cold water.
When roots are cool enough to
their own back yards. Every child
who deposited one W. S. S. with him
could take a pig. And at the end of
the summer.vacation each child who
brought back a pig, big and healthy
and well fed, would be given half of a
V Ictory Bond. That meunt, of course,
that two children who went Into part
nership could eurn a whole 150 bond
-wind get their W. S. S. back when
they returned the pig.
Hitch a buzz of talk and planning as,
there was then you never heard! Of
course, mothers had to be consulted,
but anyone could see that the children
meant to raise those pigs If there was
any way to do It. The next morning
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CAN YOU FIND THE BIRDS?
CIIIH is the season when the trocs
are full of birds. The air, ton, Is
full of them, for they fly ull
about. A bird has flown Into each of
these sentences. Bee .v hot her you rah
ilnd lb
1. In grammar flnjr words some
times have big uses
2. 1 know, bad. ownings are very
expensive.
3. The celebration will b« a glee-'
ful nffslr.
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CUM DRAWING of this toy Is a
very good one to study. No
separate patterns are given, nor
Is tlio drawing detailed, so It will
be necessary to pick out the parts
I’lom the assembly drawing.
Study the drawing carefully nnd
when you understand It thoroughly.
handle the skin will easily rub off
without staining the hands.
Hkln and slice.
Melt butter In saucepan and when
bubbling, add flour and salt and stir
till smooth.
Add milk gradually and stir till
smooth.
Butter a baking dish
Put in a layer of oyster plant, then
a layer of white sauce and then a
sprinkling of crumb*.
Repeat till dish Is filled. Have layer
of crumbs on the top.
Shako paprika over the top and
bake 3ft minutes.
If you liko cheese add two table
spoons grated cheese to the ’white
sauce for a tine flavor and more nour
ishing dish.
there was another meeting in the big
room and forty pig* were promised
homes, (trace and Mildred each took
orte and John und his brother Ralph
each took one and other boys and girls
did the same.
It was a great day in the town when
the whole school marched down to
tlm bank and the lucky forty girl*
and boy* left their stamp* and took
away their pigs. Mr. Hancock bought
the ten fifty dollar bonds that same
morning and put them lit a safe at the
bank HU the pigs would be big enough
to sell. And the children carried their
pigs home In wagons or carls and left
them each In the proper back yard In
nice little fenced off corners.
Now what’s to bo done with ull
those Liberty Bonds, whether each
child keeps his own half or whether
j they will all bo given to the school for
new equipment, nobody knows as yet
for that question Is not to be decided
till fall, when the pigs and the bonds
exchange owners. But the bonds are
bought und the pig* are. eating garbage
and grunting and growing bigger ev
ery single day.
\ 4. The question is "Boos I'htjlp
love lluth?" *
5 I mot her on tho beach hunting
•hells.
4. Charlie, do venture a llttla
nearer to mo.
T. J tris.de known to her « venera
jble friend of intnr.
2 Hu broke the ruler In hnlf-lnrli
i lengths.
* it Please, Ohio, row,near the bank,
I M The water'for bis bath rushed
Toys And Use-pul Rkticlps
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By Brrnk I. SOLRR
Instructor, T>»p’t OpMiwuAi.TitAiNiN«,Po»ucScHo©u»OyDßTßoiT
make out your stock list. This will
bo very good practice for you In this
particular case.
It. doesn’t' make much difference
which part you commence yn first, but
suppose we let It be the body. Lay
out and form carefully. This piece
like most of the others can bo made
with the usual toola at hand.
Sometimes It Is more Interesting to
make our work proceed In such a way
that each tlhlshed piece can bo at
tached to what Is already completed.
If it Is desired to do this, select the
next piece accordingly and follow this
process as far us you cun.
All the parts are to be fusteneil to
gether with brads. The body and
hood are fustenod to the long bottom
piece. Before fastening part Ato the
body, part 15 must first be fastened to
A. Drive a null through A at a point
that will permit It to enter B at Its
renter when In Its proper position.
You won’t so® a dimension for this
location —you must figure It yourself.
The nail should fit loosely In A but
not In B. It should tit tightly In the
latter. A Is then fastened In the lop
of the body as shown. Part 13 Is held
securely In position but may be turned
In uny position, the nail turning easily
In A. The gun barrels are fastened
to X with small nails and X In turn
is fastened to It. These barrels are
very simply made. They are first
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n of commotion.
2-7 of a parsimonious person.
1-6 of a. fish.
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1- of a dwarf.
2- of resentment
1-8 of * bird.
8-4 of gentle
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4-7 of an axis of revolution.
2 7 of to shout applause
1-6 of a tree.
J OCK BAIR OF MIT(TS)
1. To concede,
2. To perpetrate,
3. To give bark.
4. To yield.
6 To allow.
of the spigot.
11. I met Emma. Bha looks wan
und pato.
12. Have you read Gulliver's Trav
els?
1.1 1 asked the burglar, "Why do
you rob In tho day-time?"
14 "Oh. awkward ona, you have
stepped on niy toe."
15, It Is s»d how rents hav* gone
up.
18. I asked the architect. "Are *J>
arks built like Noah's?”
IT. The path through the* meadow
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Puzzle Corner
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made square then rounded to within
five-eighths of an Inch of the end.
The wheels should he perfectly
round. They can bo made so with a
little care. Lay them out with a pnlr
of sharp steel dividers, scoring rather
deeply, and then work exactly to the
lino.
The wheels are held to the axles by
round head screws. Washers should
be placed between the wheels and the
ends of the axles. It will also be
well to use a small washer between
the head of the screw and the wheel.
In this way the wheels may be made
to run almost perfectly upright und
yet run easily.
*When all the parts are made, sand
ed and assembled, take apart for
painting. Tin strings to the various
parts, paint and hang up to dry. The
color scheme will be left to your own
Judgment. You have during the past
few months seen enough similar ve
hicles to get an Idea how you would
like to have It painted.
NO TIME FOR SOCIAL DOING?
Little Halite: Look quick Robert Is
there anything In the paper about my
May Day party.
Little Robert: Go a.way. Haven’t
you got senae enough to know a fellow
can’t bother with that society stuff
when the baseball season’s on.
«. To send across.
7. To give out,
8. To emancipate.
Each word ende in MIT.
ANB WHICH
FRACTION Ah VEUKT ABT.EB 1
TURNIP. Turmoil; Ntpourd; Perrli.
'i. PUMPKIN. Pigmy; Umbrage; Pm
rot; Kind. 8. BPINACII. BpindU; A<--
claim; Hotel.
FOUR PAIR OF MITITHf- 1. Alt
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Bub MIT. 6. Par- MIT. ft. Tranz MIT
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PROVERR PUZZLE
A Fool And Hu Money Are Boon
) Parted.
Deer, Hare, Eton, Mole, Eland, Pan
j ther, Ferret t Mooze, Sloth, Upend.
leads to the barn.
18. Bee the pigs wallowing in ths
dirt.
Answers;
t. Martin. 10. Thrush.
2. Daw, * 11. Swan.
1 1 Eagle. 18. Gull
4. Plover. 11. Robla.
8. Heron IS. lfawft.
8. Dovo. 16. Wren.
7., Raven. 18. I.ark.
8. Jt'lnch. It. Owl.
1 8 Crow, 18. (swallow.
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