Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-19
The Magic Yeast
Cake
BIZ EDW1W L. S.6BN.

Az> AYMOND WEST had been sent down town
~ over the matter. 1t seemed to hin, that when,
ever he having good time he was interrupted
and dispatched for yeast cake. cake of yeast was
such Insignificant thing, yet it was always bobbing
up at the wrong moment
The walk to the store through the sharp atmos-
pnere failed to soothe his wrath, and the round, yel
low which stared him in the face ON his home
ward trip saw an unusually suiky and resenttui lad
When he reached the house instead of going
through the kitchen in order to give Mary. the
GIRL the yeast cake, he turned aside into the library
He resolved that he would make Mary wait until after
supper.
The library was warm and coy. He slipped into
the big leather easychar before the CRATE and med
tated his troubles.
~I wish were million miles off, he exclaimed.
beside him
Raymond gave start of surprise, He the
oldest little imaginable standing by the crate and
had an enormous face, fiat and as round and as
shiny dollar Within the unbroken eircumfer-
tiny dmpled mouth with uplifted corners. and just
trace of two ridiculousy small ears. There was no
hair at all
The face appeared to be directly upon the shout
ders of short squat body and the body rested upon
The had his hands in his pockets, and, with his
waiting for Raymond to respond
"S-s-sr?" suffered Raymond
II said Come alongr"" spoke the again in
Unexpectedly deep. rq5nbly voice
'Why. million miles off, continued the man
and now his tone was squealy as hddestring. He
But I don't know you,' declared Raymond. alarmed
Certainly, you do, asserted the man, Grossly and
ence more in a growl. "The idea-vhen I'm your
neighbor, living only about 10000 miles away, and
you me lots of times every month What stupid!
I'm the man in the moon-therel Don't forgetp'
'Wh-wh--what7' calculated Raymond,
$50 here is your chance skip far that they'll
never find you to make go for yeast cakes,
proceeded the intruder. (And for the remainder of
this narrative must bear in mind that sometimes
his voice Crowl and sometimes it squeak)
II don't want to co. faltered Raymond
shouldn't have wished It. However we will only go
a quarter of a million for beginning, and you'll be
right where you look down and what is hap
pening home Quick! Give the yeast cake be-
fore somebody in, and he jerked his hands
from his pockets.
he thought of disobeying. He meekly laid the
yeast cake in the extended palm of his queer mentor.
The queer little placed the cake upon the
hearth the glowing Goals
Watch =" he warned. IT'S in very spot
and 10 get aboard we'll have to be spry."
Suddenly the cake cor--enced to spread and swell.
Ready cried the man, hopping ninby about it
| Even as he spoke the yeast cake shot upward
smooth, white column
"An aboard! All aboard" fairly screamed the
little scrarnbling upon it Raymond also scarcely
against the top of the column and his strange friend
cutehed him by the collar
Hang tight! commanded the
Up they went and before Raymond had time to
duck his head they had crashed through the ceiling
and through the roof if through paper, and quite
Up and up and up they sped. The apex of the col
unn was so and slippery that RAYMOND
forced TO cling desperately maintain his position
The wind whistled around his in perfect gale