Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-06

I'm tired and hungry.
After luncheon the next thing suggested
by the note was, Put UP a fiagpoIe and
have flag ready for flag raising''
We'll have to use the telephone, for
there isn't any flag with the freight things
and we don't know how to put one up"
said Betty.
Sister Sue threw down a penny and in
I formed them that the store nearest to
| Backyardville was two miles away
81 thought you might like a long drive
| after your work. Ben knows how to har-
| ness horses, and he isn't afraid to drive
When you get back will be in Backyard
| Vile myself"
| Il guess I'm not afraid" cried Ben. and
| almost before the other two understood he
| had slipped his worsted reins over their
| shoulders and driven them to the back
| gate
| In fifteen minutes they returned. hot and
angry.
| ''Horrid old things!" growled Betty.
''Ill pay 'em back; You see If 1 DON'T"
| snapped Ben.
They're naughty bad girls: they ought
| to be spanked and spanked" said Beth,
| Indignantly.
Poor little girls" said Sister Sue, srd
| the children stopped short in surprise sIm
| always sorry for anyone when they are as
| naughty that"
The children didn't like to have her sorry
| for anyone who had tormented them. but
| they said nothing against 1t, for they re-
| membered how very nice it was to have her
sorry for them when they had been
naughty.
I'm not sorry for Them" Ben ventured
| to say.
What was the trouble?" asked Sue.
ITS those old children round The corner"
| explained Betty. ''They haven't any back
yard, so they are always on the pavement
| yelling things at people. They told Beth
she was horrid little girl to wear boys
| clothes"
And when told 'em to hush up they
threw apple cores at us. and one hit Beth
| right on the nose sputtered Ben
"They are so funny looking; why, they
are most as thin as matches" giggled
Betty. And they are always slamming
something at people going by
Slim Slams! That's good name for
'em. Betty. Oh, won't We have fun calling
em that" said Ben,- gleefully turning a
Lets forget about them till tonight:
then we will see if we can find excuses for
Them said Sue. soberly.
She took up the tiny flag, ierl1ed it away
from the stick, laid piece of string across
that end of the flag, turned the flag down
and pinned it over the string A mating
tack was then hammered in one top Of a
chair round, and aNaek stuck near the bot
tom of the other end. Passing the string
through the mating tack she Joined the
ends and slipped the kRot under the tack
below. Then Ben harHrered the round in
the ground and thelf1igi could be raised or
| lowered by pulling 'tsie double string
| When people arsYiixiag in your pleasure
ground you can have a celebration and sing
America The Star 2Spangled Banner
Blue, and anything else You know" said
Sue. A4TNA
What kind Of psonN are we going to
hayess as ked3 Bets Gtfd sar. me!
k kass ~ You <ars.ssas aSasas Wait and
Ther Sea1nes the nassax s. assper beds
here and theye along the, road. Little
heaps Of rich earth were brought from
the big flower beds and BORDERS made for
them Of ting seashells.
I thoughesyou could, use small stones"
said Sue. "But father bought quite a big
box full Of shells for 10 cents at store
where they sen all sorts of fancy things"
These .4afe prettier than. stones" said
Beth deiightedly, placing the pink-tnted
shelIs around the edge of the half moon
she had formed Betty had made cross
shaped bed and was having difficulty in
shaping fve-pointed STAR Ben had
CHOSEN easy shapes and had already fin
ished triangular, square and oblong beds.
Then the flowers We're planted, but not
Watered at all, for they were made of bits
OF colored tissue paper. strip of green
paper two inches wide rolled till
about two inches long. the top deeply
gashed and spread open to form leaves, and
the bottom twisted. Flowers were made
of like strips fringed at the top and placed
In the middle Of the green paper, when
the plants were stuck in the flower beds.
When an unusually strong puff of
WIND tore some Of them up and carried
exciting to be In a cyclone.
In the meantime Sue had been busy with
a pasteboard shoe box. On the outside OF
the bottom she outlined a door and window
on the lower half, and two windows on
the upper half. With his penknife Ben
carefully cut along the lines at one side
and along the top and bottom Of the door,
and down the center and along the tops
and bottoms OF the windows. Then he
lightly pressed his knife on the other side
OF the door and Of both sides of the win
doWs That made 1t easy for Betty to
evenly bend back the shutters and door.
10 make an upstairs floor she broke off
the sides of the box lid. cut a piece the
depth of the house and forced it into the
middle or the box BY the side of the door
she punched hole. large enough to admit
string. On the inside end of the string
she fastened a rough stone and on the out
side round brass button.
A door bell!" cried Betty, clapping her
hands. That's ever much better than
bought house"
Then Sue took three broad strips of corn
husks, twisted the ends together, tied them
with string and put on the lake three very
fine canoes
Now for the peoDIe" said Sue picking
a pink clover.
She tied fuzzy grass seed wands near the
mead OF the clover: tied broad grass blades
at the neck, fastened them together at the
waist and presented to them Miss Pink
Glover Grass
Then she picked another clover. tied short
plantain stalks near the head for arms
turning these stalks up and slipping them
under the knot at the neck to form the
body. Next she used two long plantain
stalks for legs. tying them on to the waist
and there was Mr.. White Glover Plantain.
All aboard for home!" shouted Father
Waiter.
Why. Is 1t that Later cried the children.
Wen take week to find excuses for
those children" said Sue. Next Saturday
morning you can tell me all you've found"