Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-06

bake, and the oven IL empty. Ill
cook them and have them all ready
for Neddie when he comes home from
school,"
But when Beckie looked at the dough
her mother had left she thought:
why that is hardly any at all! !
think I'll mix UP some more hour and
water, and make moro biscuits. Mother
won't care.
So Beckie, though she did not know
much about baking put the dough In
dish, and poured water on 1t. Thsn she
mixed q lot more hour with 1t, until she
had q large lump. almost a. large ~
her mother used for family batch OF
biscuits.
Now I'll cut them out nice and
round" said Beckie, 40 she rolled the
dough out nat, land bake them In the
oven. Won't mother be surprised, and
Neddie, tool"
Beckie put tho biscuits in = pan.
"They look just like mothers do be-
fore they arc baked" she said rather
proudly, a. she put them in the hot
oven. Soon Beckie's biscuits began to
bake, a. she could tell by the lovely
brown smell, and, after looking at them
once or twice, Beckie took them out
Of the oven.
They're dons!" exclaimed the little
bear girl "Oh, how nice they look"
Just 40 Beckie said this, and set her
van of biscuits down on the table TO
cool, she heard noise In the kitchen.
and, turning around suddenly she saw
the bad old tail pulling chimpanxee
monkey, who had not bothered the
bear children for some days.
"Ah ha," cried the chimpanzee mon
key. "At last have you!" and he
stretched out his paws.
"Oh dear!" exclaimed Beckie, "You
are going to pull my tail suppose"
eyes, you guessed It the first try"
said the chimpanzee. II haven't pulled
q tail In long while. I'm getting out
OF practices"
We'll, mine 10 . very short tail. !" said
Beckie. $50 don't see how you can
lpull 1t very long"
mo matter. I'm going to pull It any
howl" growled the chimpanSee, and he
was just reaching for Beckie's little
stubby tail when the bear girl cried:
stop! Hold on, II you please. wait
. minutel Will you not pull my tail II
give you biscuit that baked my
self?" she asked.
Perhaps, maybe" said the chimpan.
zee. LET mo see the biscuit frst."
"Here Is one" said Beckie. handing
the chimpanxee monkey one OF the
nice brown biscuits she had baked. The
bad tail pulling chap opened his mouth
and bit on It. The biscuit was very
hard and then, al two Of his teeth sud.
denly broke OF the monkey cried:
"Ha! Biscuits! Those aren't bis.
cults! They are stones! You have
played . trick on me! Oh WOW! Now
must 70 to the dentists to have my
teeth fixed" And out Of the cave he
ran without pulling Beckie's tall.
."Oh! can my biscuits be as hard %
that ?" cried Beckie, and when she felt
OF them she saw that she had put IN
too much -four and had spoiled them
al. They were % hard % bricks, and
Beckie felt like crying.
ooh, but never mind" said her
mother, when she came back from cur.
ling Lulu Wibblewobble of the hic-
coughs. III your biscuits had been soft
the chimpanzee would have pulled
your tall
So this teaches us that 1t IL good
thing sometimes. to bake hard bis.
cults. And in the story after this I'll
tell you about Neddie and the ice hole.
And l don't much care II the popcorn
| ball does play tag with the lollypop, do
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