Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30


S@ QK91 Man Mites grandmother thought a
- great deal of him and he thought a
great deal of his northumberland of his grandmother
farm.
He liked the horses and the cows and the meadows
and the barn and the pond and the woods and the
orchard and the spring house. He especially fond
of the spring house, for it was cool and restful
hot Summer days and his grandmother used let him
take his fairy book and sit there as long he liked
One day he heard his grandmother say that she
wished she had herbs and simples' to make
some medicine Without saying anything to her about
it and without knowing very clearly what herbs and
simples" WERE he started out to get some for her.
On the way he passed the spring house and stopped
in just for minute look the pictures OF the gnoes
and mikes in his book He didn't quite remember how
far he had got in the book when he put it down and
went to the woods, but presently he found himself
gathering the herbs and smpcs." He had idea
before how many things grew in the fields and woods.
He found great many curious little flowers and shrubs
and and berries, but very few hartleaves and
he remembered that his grandmother had mentioned
hart-l leaves particularly
AS you know, hart-leaves love to grow around old
logs and stuinps, the Man Mite kept sharp lookout
for these He sure lie had walked long, long
way and was beginning to feel tired. Indeed he
membered that he had felt tired even when he
went into the springfo He had good mind to
kurn back when right ahead of him, he saw a rotten
growing at the bottom.
The Man Mite gave a shout of JOY and ran towards
it as fast he could He ran so fast that he took
jump into the stump to stop himself, but much to
his surprise, he didn't stop. Instead of stopping he
fell right through down, down, down, until bump! he
found himself in the fireplace of underground ROOM
Luckily it Simmer and there was no fire in the
fireplace, but before he had time pick himself up
little old man came running towards him. Though,
old he wasn't tall as the Man Mite himself, but
on the forehngcr of his right hand there grew nail
fully foot long and with its edge sharpcned that
il was almost like sword. On the other hand grew
equally long nail followed at the end like spoon
what do you by jumping down the chimney
of the Kings Kitchen" screamed the dwarf pointing
his finger at the Man Mite
"Oh, didn't mean to- Please DOM. stab me!" cried
the Man Mite. ~
"Stab your answered the dwarf. 81 am the CHIEF
cook of the King. do pollute the Kings bread
knife"
The Man Mite scrambled OUT of the fire place and
started to brush himself Off Stop that! stop that
screamed another little old man, with long, stiff
beard, long that dragged on the floor Not oni,
didTit drag the floor. but he dragged on tn,
floor, using of bro. with which to sweep
Couldn't you brush me off, too?' asked the Mar
Mite.
@Brush you off, said the old man. scornfuly a
the keeper Of the Kings floors. do poute thu
Kings broom
"Hurry, Wierdbeard," said the first dwarf; ct i
almost time for the Kings dinner. ~
Eyes, Slimjfn" answered the other, "ct us light III
and summon the Kings table"
It all very curious to the Man Mite and jus
at this juncture he heard somebody outside crying. '
don't want to be washed don't want to be washed
THE King the Kingr' cried Simjim and Werd
beard bowing their heads to the ground as litt1
boy entered, Just about the size of the Man Mite
Bdckinc kefors Kr, dwarf with o,;oryyo,,
hands, in which he held water After him foifowe,
another dwarf with long, Write hair which hung dow
his back in a wavy mass.
will his majesty deisn to dip his benchcent face int
his majestys basin, WIloebowl. and dry his inperia
features on his servant, Bigwig?"
oh bother" said the little boy "Why, who is this
My name is Rex; what's yours?"
Before the Man Mite could answer, Wierdbeart
spoke. "rhis, Your majesty is prisoner guilty 0
housebreskiug burglary, obtaining entrance to TIL
Kings palace uder false pretences and impcrsonatin
Sanity Claus"
II never didF' denied the Man Mite
Didn't YOU break The King chimney" dcn,ande
Wierdbeard, 'and isn't "a chimney part OF house,
aren't you horse breaker? Isn't house breaki,
burglary? Didn't you come down the chimney as il 70
Sanity Claus and you Sanity Clauss Isn't tia
falsely ipcrsonating Sanity Claus and IL soa prefende
you were Sanity Clans, isn't that obtaining entfans
under false pfetencesse
f"Oh. bother said the King. @say. do you III
raspberry janis do"