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sible member of the family, said that she
didn't believe that 1t was Syrian woman
at all; if she was knitted woman, that
was pretty good evidence that she was the
knitted mans wife. The knitted man was
the person who had attempted to sell Mr..
Doliver the hollow mule that was made TO
hold candy. Dolly said that she knew
where the knitted man lived-it was over
on a table where nurse kept needles ana
pins-indeed she sometimes stuck needles
and pins into the knitted man. And serve
him right too" growled Mr.. Dolliver.
So the Doliver family set off, as they
nearly always did when there was any
thing to be done, in a procession: Flrst
went Mr.. Dolliver leaning on his cane.
Next came Mrs. Doliiver with the baby
sewed into her arm. After her was Aunt
Dnah who hadn't stopped to take the meat
out of the range, but was just letting 1t
burn to a cinder. After Aunt Dinah was
Dolly and Tommy and the twins. all talk
ing. all telling exactly what ought to be
done-the knitted man thought mob had
come to take him out and hang him.
The Delivers were almost glad. after ALL
that this had happened. They had never
been on the table before, and there they
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other like 50 many great balloons. Each
added puff had its own meaning. Blazing
arrows. flying through the air like rockets.
were sometimes used in signaling.
But the greatest care must be used in
handling fire. Bald Eagle camped one
time far up canyon in the Rocky noun
tains. The day seemed perfectly calm, and
the air was quiet. A space was cleared of
the dry grass, and very small fire was
built to boil eggs and coffee. No sooner did
the flames leap up through the dry kindling
than the wind began to blow. Sparks fell In
the dry grass and were quickly famed
into flame. The whole party tried to staRp
out the little fires. but new ones started
still faster. Then everybody cut cedar
branches and tried to whip the fire down.
But it was no use. The wind by this time
was blowing wildly. 1t seemed in league
with the spirit of the flames. and at last
the party had to retreat, leaving the noun
tain on fire BY good fortune a light snow
fell that night, even though 1t was the LIST
of May. and put it out. but only after
acres and acres had been burned over
The woods are not often so dry and so
ready to burn as that dry grass was. but
the adventure shows that woodcrafters cam
not be too careful when playing with fire.
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wide as the shoe. and riveting it firmly to
the middle of the sole. This would be a job
for a blacksmith, but the cost is trifiing /;
one pair of shoes will do for the whole
tribe, and will last several summers.
Mr.. Seton says that the hunters learn to
follow readily the trail made by these
shoes. OF course, there is danger of mis-
taking an old trail for new one after the
hunting ground has become considerably
tracked up, but so, too, there is in hunting
real deer. The game is never particular
to accommodate the hunter by keeping the
fresh tracks carefully away from the older
ones. Following this iron trail is very
much indeed like following the real wild
animal
A fine point in Indian woodcraft is signal
ing by means of fire. When party of
braves had been away on big hunt
fight the surrounding plains or hills were
eagerly watched for signs of their return.
Usually the return was telegraphed or sig
nailed by means of smoke. If war party
had killed five of the enemies the kindling
of five fires would tell the story OF course.
the Indians knew how to build fire that
would make the desired smoke. One way of
doing this was to get it burning well and
then throw on an armful of green or wet
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made the acquaintance of several charming
people. For one thing, nurses button box
was open and they met the Button family
Mr.. Button and Mrs. Buttons and dozens
and dozens of little Buttons. What fun
the Dollver children did have rolling the
young Buttons around (rollins is button s
way of running).
The Button family told the Dolivers that
| the knitted woman had indeed come home
with quite a lot of stuff in little cart.
| She and the knitted man shut up in
| the work box, and it required the strength
| of the entire Deliver family to pry open
| the lid. When they had done so they plung-
ed in upon the knitted man and his wife,
and after saying a great many hard things,
took back all their goods.
Nurse said in the morning that either
Ethel had been into her sewing things, or
the white kitten had climbed on the table.
She scolded good deal-nurse never scold-
ed unkindly, but she seemed to like to keep
a piece of scoldng on hand so as to have
something going. She said that the way
her buttons were mixed up and thrown
around was ScandalouS.
Some time when mamma tells you that
her thread is tangled, her scissors and her
buttons all scattered about, you ask her if
she doesn't think the buttons themselves
have been playing-or possibly the dolls
have been playing with them.
The riot was at its maddest. Which and
Tother were spinning about like grasshOp-
pers and shrieking like katydids, when they
all heard a soft little exclamation from the
stood Ethel in her little white night gown
her soft feet bare. her curls tangled about
her shoulders and the sleep still in her
eyes.
"Oh. you dear things, Can you really talk
and run about like this? Why do you never
DO it when L m with you?"
Instantly every doll and toy fell fiat and
lay where it had fallen-that is the rule in
toy land, and the Delivers were too good
people to break rules.
Just then nurse came hurrying in with
a tiny lamp in her hand though the moon
light made it unnecessary. She began one
of her comfortable. mild little seedlings
when she found Ethel among the scattered
tO-S.
But they were talking-and running
about-oh, so cumming. nursey. dear"
Ethel explained. clinging TO her nurses
hand. as she picked up Mr.. and Mrs Dol
liver to drop them head-tirst on the kitchen
floor. Don't. nursey. you'll offend them.
Let them walk there if they want to-
Nonsense, said nurse. laughing and
kiS-snS her little charge, you've been
dreaming. Come back to your bed"
But Ethel knows better than that and so
Go you. now that you have heard of the
doings of the Delivers.
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house selling lace. Mrs. DOlliver said that
she must be Syrian women, because she
looked SO strange and dark, and talked in
such an odd broken way.
The knitted woman said at once that
She wanted to sleep. Il sheeby. | var, vair
sheeby. l wand to shleeb. Let me lie
down That is exactly the way she said it,.
And poor. unSuSpeCting Mrs. DolliVer
took her to her bed room and let her lie
down upon the bed. Mrs. Dollver said af-
terWard that she would not have done it.
only that the poor woman's head was al
most off. just hanging by a thread or two,
that when she moved it il would drop
over and hang down her back. Mrs. Dol
liver found this so very distressing to look
at that she showed the knitted woman into
the bed room and told her to lie down.
Then Dolly Dolliver came home with
some of her little friends from school. and
Which and Tother. the twins, fell in the
rain barrel-nOt one on top of the other.
but one after the other And Tommy DOlli-
Yer cut his finger and the baby got choked
on its bottle. and Aunt Dinah let the meat
burn up in the oven so that it Smelled all
over the house. These were some of the
things that kept Mrs. Dolliyer from re-
Numbering the knitted woman up in the
bedroom 'shleebing."
When she did remember her, she ran up
stairs as fast as she could-but the knitted
woman was gone. So was the comb and
brush. and Mr. Delivers toothbrush This
toothbrush was nearly as long as his arm.
and of course he couldn't use it; but he was
extremely proud of owning a toothbrush.
In a sense it set him apart from other dolls.
Dolly Delivers Sunday dress was gone
also. and Tommy Delivers base ball and
bat. and Which and Tother's little cart
that they would have loved to wheel the
baby about in. if Mrs Delivers arm could
have been unsewed from around 1t.
Mrs DOlliver noticed that these things
were all gone-and she didn't know how
many more-before she ran shrieking down
stairs What she shrieked was Fire! Fire"
OF course the Dolliver family could not be
expected to know exactly what had hap
pened from hearing Mrs. Dolliver shrek
Fire" When they did come to under
stand il. Mr. Dolliver said that. although
he was lame man. he would go and seek
out the robber He would mount the spot
ted horse and ride. forthwith. Mrs. DOlli-
Yer said that she would go with him, only
that she had the baby sewed into her arm.
and she didn't think that the baby should
be brought among such associates at its
early age
Tommy Doliver was for going and get
ting the white kitten TO hunt up the knit
ted woman. Which and Tother simply
shreked and said that if they had their
cart they would go. and no old Syrian wom-
an would get away from them.
Dolly Dolliver, who was always the SEN
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Cupid.

Cupid was King Charles dog, and had
long, silky ears. They were delight to
his mistress from artistic standpoint,
but they We're a nuisance when it came to
eating. If Cupid drank milk from saucer,
his ears received a milk bath, and the
same result followed upon his partaking
of bread and gravy or the various other
viands with which Cupid satisfied his de
partment of the interior.
Psyche was a cat. She had no such
beauty Cupid, but she was the past
grand mistress in the art of cleanliness
Psyche simply could not endure anything
that was dirty, and Cupids ears were a
great source of annoyance to her.
One day Dorothy, the little girl who
owned both Cupid and Psyche, heard the
most pitiful bowls coming from Cupid.
Rushing to find out the cause she found
Psyche seated on Cupid's back, with his
head pinned down fast by her claws. Cupid
protested but it was of no use. Every
time he moved Miss Psyche's claws went
nto him more deeply. Psyche had made
up her mind that Cupid's ears must be
washed. and she was washing them Her
little pink tongue Tapped Them first this
way and then that. The long hairs got in
Eer throat and made her cough. but that
did not stop her. Notwithstanding Cupid s
comical howlings. she persevered, and de-
spite the largeness of the contract and the
smallness of the washing apparatus, Psyche
continued in her well-doing until Gu
pids ears were in the state of cleanliness
she deemed necessary
How Dorothy laughed. She determined.
however, that instead of subjecting Cupid
to such treatment in the future she would
pin-or, more correctly, hairpin-his ears
upon the top of his head while he was
dining. which she did. Cupid at first OBJ
jected, but when Dorothy gave him his
choice between hairpins or Psyches claws,
without hesitation he chose the former as
the lesser of two evils
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bullfrog still remained above water with
the wings of the swallow sticking OUT OF
the corners of his mouth.
Recently story was told me by a friend
who resides at Flushing. r. l.. of certain
happenings on neghbors place. THIS
Tleghbor has some water incloSed in Winch
he keeps some domesticated wild fowl. and
rot long ago the opportunity occurring to
purchase five gigantic bulfrogs. he intro
duced them into the water
This spring. as t seemed possibility
that some of his wild duck could breed. an
effort was made to get rid of the frogs for
fear they might injure the ducklinss, and
three of them were killed. but the other
two could not be found Some time in May
a female pintaiI duck came off with three
young ones which, after two or three days.
disappeared and were not seen again.
day or two after their disappearance he
missing bullfIOgS were seen and killed. and
in their stomachs were found the remains
of the little pintails. | fancy that there
is nothing living that bullfroS will not
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The DOings Of the DolIivers.
The Knitted Woman
hS AAiAhIC0 '" oiioh.
by GRACE MCGOWAN COOKE.

The Delivers are a family of dolls The
country they live in is the nursery The
house they live in is a little low cupboard,
and that makes an upstairs and a down
stairs for the Dolliver family. The nearest
running water is the wash stand. away
and away over in the corner of the nursery.
where. if nurse turns on the faucet, there
is raging cataract, and the basin makes
Il large lake. The Delivers love to picnic
pose all children know that when we
go To sleep. dolls wake up and live their
little lives and have their little pleasures
and their little pains we do. The king
rather the queen-of the country in
which the Delivers live is Ethel the dear
little girl who owns them These stories
of the doings of the DOllivers will tell you
all about it
The knitted woman came to the Dolliver
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delighted, she felt SO independent and 1t
was such a relief not to be obliged to say
Papa, will you please give me 80 cents"
This plan worked beautifully; to be sure,
she occasionally dead broke but
the pride that hated to ask for 30 cents
helped her over it and concealed the fact.
She began to spend her own Income
when she was sixteen, and, though she
made few mistakes in judgment, at the
age of twenty Marian was practical,
sensible girl in money matters. independent
and with money saved in the bank, for
when she had the spending of her very own
money she found there were many I'M
necessary things which she chose to dis
pense with. Her father learned that 1t
paid to give his daughter an allowance IN
more ways than one.
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Marian's Allowance.
rom the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

tioh the 81 Louis GioDe-Dem0crat.
Papa, will you give me 10 cents for car
fare?' How Marian hated to ask for that
money. She would rather walk, but it was
storming too hard to think of it. Like
every girl, she longed for money of her
own, and she entertained vague schemes
as to how she would earn it some day
Marian had one friend whose father gave
her an allowance" to spend as she saw
III and for which she need account to no
one. Although Marian probably had more
money spent on her, she envied this girl
from the bottom of her heart. for the lat
ter did not have to beg for carfares
Marian's mother finally suggested that she
should have an allowance, out of which
she must dress herself and pay all or her
personal expenses. After careful reckon
ing from her own account book her mother
decided what was spent for her daughters
use. and this amount she gave Marian In
monthly installments. with neat little
account book. She explained to Marian
that she was to buy everything she wore
or used out of this money and showed her
how to keep careful accounts. Marian was
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third opponent if he has the prowess

third opponent if he has the prowess. A
triple victory gives him three extra points.
Then he throws down his club in disdain
and returns haughtily to his place in the
line.
A brave from either side may now step
forward and challenge any one who dares
to face him. A defeated brave cannot
again enter that contest. When al last a
brave can find no one to face him he scores
two points, and then each side adds all its
points to see who wins the contest
The other day big medicine man Black
Wolf showed Bald Eagle pair of shoes to
the soles of which he had fastened a pair
of ''hoofs'' for the deer hunt. The arrange
ment is made by taking a strip of sheet
iron half inch wide. bending 1t into
shape, something like heart nearly as
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grass. Smoke from such a fire has been
seen as far as fifty miles.
Every tribe had its own system code
signals. which no other tri.e was su2-
posed to understand, just as every govern
ment now has its own code by which secret
kilograms may be safely sent. For eN
ample. among the Apaches one column of
smoke was merely to call attention. Two
columns said 'Alrs well; we remain In this
camp" Three columns more were signs
of danger of one kind or another.
Sometimes, after putting on the green
grass a blanket was spread over Ii and
held down by the edges to keep the smoke
in. When the, blanket was removed Il
great volume of smoke arose. The blanket
could be replaced and removed several
times. so that the puffs would follow each
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ing strings or worsted for the same pur-
pose.
Donald wanted to go on learning more
about birds. but his aunt had to leave, so
promised him another talk as soon as she
could. Donald, however, now his eyes
were opened to birdcraft. found much
that was delightfully."- interesting, and
from this time on never robbed or de-
stroyed a nest lie waited until the au-
tumn, when the birds had vanished, then
collected nests of every sort. taking great
pleasure in explaining to his boy friends
how this one was built by a carpenter,
that by weaver and so on. until he was
convinced that aunt had been right when
she said that birds nearly all followed a
trade in the fashoning of their nests.
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What a Bullfrog Will Eat.

From Forest and Stream
Many years ago, when collecting birds
in southern New England, l shot on the
salt marshes a swallow. which fell in a
shallow pool in the marsh. My brother,
who happened to be standing near the pool
saw the bird fall and saw a huge bulltrog
make two or three sprawing leaps over the
mud and through the ater and swallow
the bird. When / came up the head of he
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Lullaby.

From the Atlanta Constitution
Ca Ter sleep. my lii grldes close yo' tired eyes
Took ter de baby show. but didn't git de prize
Good for nothin judges set a-iookin' mighty wise
An missed de purtiest baby of EN- all!
Go ter sleep. my lii girl-yo' nanny loves you
true
All de prize Use wantn is de prize Use got In
you.
Never mind what people say or what de judges
do
Iou'se des de purtiest baby of 'em all,
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Obvious.
From Puck.

Little Bo-Peep had lost her sheep
Have you thought" they asked her. ''of
looking in your New York safe for them?-
Perceiving the simplicity of the scheme,
che FASTENED to be in style,
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DOUBLE ADDITIONS.
l. T-ablH-t. 2 Gig. 3. Ease .
Seats. s. Shark
WORD PUZZLE
l. Right-rite. 2. Knew-new-gnu & Blew.
blue 1. Hear-here.
WORD SQUARES
Al IROT B-I DRAM
2 ROVE 2 ROSE
D. OhER 3. ASKS
l. IERM 1. NESS
DIAGONAL.
!. I.iniment
2. Handsome.
3. Ra Bbit
1. Prior.
D. FlouRish.
q. Ca ndiIbate.
Z. Abomin Able.
=. Seminary
LABOR DAY
BEHEADiNGS
/. R-oar.
.. Amen.
3. IDEAL
4. Near.
Beheaded letters spell RAIN.
NUMERICAL ENIGMA
Automobile.
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Two Kinds.
From Puck .

From Puck.
I'm politics, aren't you?'
"YeS''
Him. Are you a point-with-p pride or =
view wth-alarm?
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J. supply I. Wandered In mind. s. To wish
;or. y To draw on 10 The egg OF insect.
II. consonant in ''skein."
RHYMING ENIGMA
My first Is in sam, but not In Pearl;
My cpnds in east. hut not In toll;
Nj, third i in pen, but never in ink;
NV fourth is in ten but not in pink:
MY nth is In each, but not In all:
My sixth is In small. but never in tall.
My seventies in hoy. bur not in girl.
Nv eighth is IN clean but never in soil:
My ninth is in bright. but not In Ounce;
My whole is of the pleasant months
HIDDEN WORD SQUARES
Al. Did l always call you that
The pony is led all around the park.
; Would you like to live in Alaska:
T. IL 20 unless YOU decide not TO.
B-l Did you 10 fishing yesterday:
= would like to 20 fully into the matter
8. We had oyster stew for dinner only the
other day.
= Did you hear that bowling?
JUAIBLED PROVERBS
l. Het suyb yeah melt rof seatr
Het piimsest tysla ST het tebs
3. IN Ial suesg reom hath We wokn
4. Nj ish reayg dneria naym a aret.
CONCEALED ARTICLES OF FOOD
!. you really need Il nun In this cold weather
.. You will have To, Tom Is at home
q. IL is your / pushed last
4. He ought to be Il good comrade, l should think
NUMERICAL ENIGMA.
am composed of seven letters and am something
bnjoyed by some people most heartily
NV 3, Z. is In number.
NV I. 4. 2. means external appearance.
ny q. 2, means To deyour.
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WORD PARAILELOGRAM
In the diagram /. 3. Z, IL, IL read the as
J. u :. $. .; also ., g. the ., 3, 10, etc
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l. consonant in ''skein.'' 2. TO prolong B. A
quantity OF yarn. 4. kind of duck. i. Not ever.
J. A supply. I. Wandered In mind. s. To wish
,or To draw on. 10. The egg OF insect.
u. \ consonant in 'skein."
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-20
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALI, SUNDAY NOVEMBER 90 1eO4.

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BUSH and Powell-Lovely room; $40 Apply
Chelsea. Monday
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RRYANT. 1oos-Furnished rooms.
BUSH. Furnished rooms.
BROADWAY. 12O3-Furnished room TO let.
SUNNY unfurnished and yard. 51s
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