Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-06
Children's Evening Story


. shore but Peetie and Jackie Bow Wow
the two puppy dogs. They hadn't
gone to Asbury Park yet, you see, but
they were going soon. .a.. . 30.
What's the matter?" asked Peetie.
"The boat is taking me away off,"
answered Buddy.
| Jump out and swim to Shore cried
Peetie ....... ~. 49,. ..
81 can't SWIM" called back Buddy.
: "Oh, We'll show you how" went on
! Jackie and then he and Peetie jumped
, into the water and began to show Bud
| dy how to swim, but he was too fright
| ened to learn, and besides, the two
puppy dogs were too far off for him to
, see them plainly. Then they swan
out and they tried to pull the boat back
: to shore, but they were not strong
| enough.
| ooh, I'll be drowned! I'll be drown
! ed" cried Buddy. What shall I do?
Tell my mamma goodby for me-" he
| said to Jackie.
| We'll tell her you're in trouble, and
maybe she will know of way to save
you," called Peetie and Jackie. 49,,
! So they ran and told Mrs. Pigg and
she and Brighteyes came running
down to the shore of the pond. .-..
"Oh, my poor little boy" cried NAM
ma Pigg, when she saw Buddy being
| carried farther and farther away.
"Oh, how can we reach him?" walled
Brighteyes, wringing her paws. 1--WE
| must save him, somehow"
Just then along came Billie and
Johnnie Bushytail, the squirrels.
"Stick up your tail like sail and
| the wind will blow you ashore!" they
cried to Buddy. That's what we did"
II haven't any tall answered Bud
, ~, real sorrowful like. ..
| That's So said the little squirrel
boys, and it began to look pretty bad
| for poor Buddy, let me tell you.
Pigg. I'll never see my poor boy
again." for he was quite far off by
this time.
Then, all of sudden. down to the
edge of the pond, came rushing Perci'
val, the old circus dog.
"Ill save Buddy!' he cried. I'll
| carry rope out to him and he can
fasten it to the boat and then we can
pull him ashore" .@
Well, Percival took rope In his
mouth and started out to swim, but a
funny thing happened. The water got
in his mouth and washed the rope
away and he couldn't carry it, though
he tried number Of times
Then everybody felt sorry and Jack
lie Bow Wow was just suggesting that
they build raft and float out on it
to Buddy, when who should come
along but Jimmie Wibblewobble, the
boy duck. They all told him what the
trouble was and he said, "Quack!
Quack. Quack!" three times, just like
that, and exclaimed:
81 have it! I can swim out with the
rope In my bill for my head Will be
above the water"
He did it too, in about two quacks
and quarter. Then he helped Buddy
fasten the rope to the side of the boat
and those on land, including Percival,
the two Bow Vows and Mamma Pigg
and Brighteyes, soon pulled the boat
and Buddy in it ashore. =
Buddy said he was never going sail,
ing again and I guess he never did, Tor
he was very much frightened but he
soon got over it and played with Jim
mie and Jackie and Peetie, while Nam
ma P1SS naQ 10 20 uOlHc W 'oho SoAAS'
thing for her nerves. SIS
Now, if | have rhubarb pie for sup.
per and the ham sandwich doesn't
squeal when they put mustard on 1T,
I'll tell you about Brighteyes and the
peanut candy in the next story.
goddess. But had she been sturdier
there would be no story to tell, for it
was because Of Gwendoline's rather
delicate health that we fingered at the
beach after Mrs. Penfield had gone to
open their home in the mountains
To me, of course, it didn't much
matter where stayed, and an excuse
like that of chaperoning Gwendoline
was sufficient to make me stay three
weeks longer at the beach than is my
usual habit.
Nov, Sophie Jones'" Mrs. Penfield
said, II know you are capable of the
task If you keep your mind on it. But
l want you to know at the outset that
Gwendoline usually attracts too much
attention. She is much too indolent to
fall in love anyway, and If she were in
mood for romance there are three or
four very desirable affairs that she
dropped in a half-fnished stage when