1:1-;BRUARY 19. . 1955 II..- ..

The Tiny Folk

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e; is a teddy bear. But he in ordinary teddy bees. Oh my, Not Be is A Very. Veil! Ipeclnl

day be” who lives with Laurie " on Playtime uric: wrist ll :f,?:,.ni shout him? Just min and mu will hear.

lying, there is his name Ginsu- uurh mu, him thlt because the bin; (eddy is exactly the color of hi, isvoritn cookies. the big crisp icieri brown ginger cookies thst 3 mom" bakes every Saturday. Hi. chest is just the color of I M, mcuit. so you see. when Gin-

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'0-;(yJ,,,e.1nllhire are his eyes. When Lsurie was little. he tried torpli-.1: out Ginger”: shining glass eyes, so Mammy took out the eyes, and instead made pretty big dark blue 5”, with yarn. Not every teddy hu special :-yes. so Ginger fer-is ,9.-v proud of his. p

gut the most important thing not makes Ginger very special in- lmd is something you'd never mess. He has bells inside his ears! lr'es. real bells that tinkle nnd jgngle every time he movu. You I". moxie iznt. Ginger when he M5 Only in yr-ia.r old and then he might hay:-I lFl('d to swallow the my; if mpy hrid been fnstened on mu inddv bears neck Now limit that i good idea. in put. the bP'.'s midis the hill. round. furry ears ll 'lie lPfld.'v'”

A. mu l'"ll'l gm-as. Laurie loves Ginger very, very much. When Liiiirie goes to visit Grandmother. Ginger goes ton. when Laurie goes .1-wing with his Daddy. he lllCk5i r.mg:-i- under his arm. WlH:'l taiirie went on it long liolidav kin Ginger Wenl along too. And mp afternoon Ginger even visit- -d the dentist with Lsurle. but Dr. Kiiirilv said he just couldn't seem to find Ginirer's ineth that day.

nw-igv evening at bedtime Liiurie mm: Ginger ln his arms as he shirts nit for bed. Hn tucks Gin- per in careiiily. for he mlrzht get cold it he were not covered pro-

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parli-. But niie night. a dreadful thinl- Iuppened. Mother called Laurie to

bed but Ginger was nowhere to be found. Mother looked all over the living room. Laurie looked in his toy box. and inside the cup- board doors. Daddy looked under the couch in the kitchen. and in the hall closet. liven Frisky. Laurie's little dog, looked too, He loked under the stove and by the wood box. But Ginger was gone! Where could he be?

Laurie started to cry. He just couldn't go in bed without his teddy! Mommy and Daddy looked again. but with no luck. At last. Lsurie went up the stairs. but. no matter how tightly he squewed his eyes shut. the big tears leaked out on to his cheeks. He was so lone- some for Ginger!

Mr. Page settled down on the couch to read the paper. sudden- ly he thought he heard a faint tinkle. Quickly he lifted. the cushions of the couch, but still he couldn't see anything. Then he hesrd the jingle again. There in- side the back of one of the couch cushions was Ginger. He had slipped in. and no one noticed the lump at the back of the cushion.

Mr. Page ran up the stairs to Laurie's room. Laurie sprang up in his bed.' grabbed the big teddy and hugged him and hugged him Then he curled down on his pil- low. with Ginger clasped tightly in his arms. Mother tuoked them in. You couldn't count ten before Laurie was asleep. for he was now the happiest little boy on Play- time Lane. And I know Giniv,-r was just as happy in his own teddy bear way.

LADY FAN! W. I.

The members of the Lady Pane W. I. were entertained st the home oi Mrs. Park Francis on Feb. 5. Mrs. Lewis presided.

Roll call was responded to by six members. Committees gave their reports and new ones ap- pointed are as follows: school- Mrs. John Francis: sick-Mrs. Stanley Mayhew; prog.-sPh-yllle Cairns and Mrs. John Francis.

It was agreed that so be sent to the March of Dimes.

Mrs. Lewis Francis invited mem- bers to meet at her home for the next meeting when the lunch committee will be Mrs. Gordon Cotton and Miss Elsie Francis.

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BITTER. DAYS

Thornton W. Burgess

iPaddy the Beaver, or Jerry Musk- - lrat. The snow didn't bother these As sunny days give way to bad. folks at all. They had plenty of Be bitter days in time are glad. lfood where they could get it with- -Old Mother Nature.lout coming out or water. Their

houses out in the water were even The” VCM bll-'4? tiny! and they; warmer. and so more comfortable, were lovely days. For folks Whozbecause of the snow that covered

were warmly housed. warmly lythem so deeply. clothed, and with plenty to eat. Little Joe Otter liked the snow, these were lovely winter HIYS-land Billy Mink didn't mind it.

SHOW COVE-f0d Wefythinc. It hid Jumper the Hare, whose big hairy all ugliness. It had been a deep snow to start with, and 1 soft

snow. That had made getting about very difficult except for those who had wings. It meant

that only the winged hunters like Hooty the Owl. Terror the Gas- hswk, and Whitey the Snowy Owl could do any real hunting. Even for them these were bitter days; for the ones they hunted. and on whom they depended for their tood. were not moving about.

So, though the sun shone bright- ly and everybody knew that win- ter would soon be over, these were the bitterest days of the whole year. Rcddy Fox and Mrs. Roddy were snowbound. So was Yowler the Bobcat, and Old Man Co me. and most of the other Green ll-lnr-l Bl""k-V "'5 C""' W” "'"""K "' est folk. Each day became a lit-l b b"''”' "m5 tie more bitter than the one be-l fore, because each day they werel in greater need of food. ;

To some, being snowbound was not too bad. It wasn't easy for the Squirrel folk to get about. But. they didn't have to get about much. They had food stored away where they could get to it eusily.: This was also true of some of the: Mouse folk. In fact. to the latter, these were not bitter days at all. They really were the best days of the whole winter. Being so - mm” and ugh,” they could Ketiowl. Whitey the Snowy Owl, and about on the wow; they didn-;yTerror the Goshawk. The latter have to wade. They didn't evenli-W0 W5” MW" fmm "W 1'” have to come out on the snow Normi

(H J m could. Blacky the Crow was finding it "man meywnnte O or W bitter time. There were days

feet acted like snowshoes and kept him from sinkini: in ion deeply, got. about without. much trouble. Like his cousin, Peter Rabbit. he lived on bark and tender twigs; and these he could find without too much trouble, The very fact that the snow kept some of those he reared most snowbnund. made it all the better for him. The only ones he really hadlto watch out for were Hooty the Great Horned

ttl t 1. under it. and Rat I gllzulrid imxgste EV" being in dam- when he wished he had flown to 8" the Sunny South as so many of

the other feathered folk had be- fore. winter came. with this hate- ful snow covering everything. find- ling food to keep him alive was in ?problem. Somehow or other he imanaged to do it, but lie. never lmew what it was in have enough ito eat at one time. He got just enough to keep him Alive. and .give him strength enough to fly land search for anything that he lrould eat. Every night he went to sleep hungry and tired. Every morning he awoke still hungry. These were bitter days indeed.

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