The Connecticut labor press., 1919-10-04
DADDY''} EVENING E3FARY TALE D 1ynARY GRAHAM j 4 T lEI!;)l! BONNER
NEWSPAPER PICTURES.
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'On, nave noaru something SO fine" said the little tree toad. "I am as happy as happy can be-"
 "What makes you happy?" asked Grannie Tree Toad.
 '"The news" said the little tree toad, known as Teddy Tree Toad.
 Hell me the news," said Grannie Tree Toad.
 We were the news" said Teddy Tree Toad.
 "What7" squealed Grannle Tree Toad. Are you telling me the truth, my little grandson?"
 II am," said Teddy Tree Toad. q am telling you the real truth"
 "That's good grandson" said Gran nie Tree Toad. "Well, how were we the news?"
 "In this way" said Teddy Tree Toad.
 "What way?" asked Grannie Tree Toad, blinking her eyes.
 ''In the way of my explanation, not in any direction you can sec with your eyes,"
 But you're telling me the truth? Grannie would be very angry if you weren't" said Grannie Tree Toad.
 Il am," said Teddy Tree Toad. ''1 am telling you what really happened, but you can't see it with your eyes for it isn't around here-or they aren't around here, 1 should say"
 ''I am very much confused" said Grannie Tree Toad.
 'I will tell you and then you won't be-" said Teddy Tree Toad.
 Tell me, my grandson tell me at once," said Grannie Tree Toad.
 "In a newspaper they had pictures, lots and lots of pictures. In fact" said Teddy Tree Toad, II have been told that they're always having pie lures in newspapers. Pictures of beau tiful ladies, pictures of big ships, pie lures of famous men, pictures of far away lands, pictures of all sorts of things.
 "These pictures show the people who read the papers what those who are written about are like, just as when people read stories there are often pictures of us and the other creatures the stories are about.
 "Well, what do you suppose they did?"
 'What?" asked Grannie Tree Toad.
 '"They had pictures of us-of anil malls and queer, interesting creatures"
 ''Is it a compliment to be queerY asked Grannie Tree Toad.
 II think so," said Teddy Tree Toad, "as long as we are interesting, too. Of course I am not quite sure if 1t is always a compliment to be thought queer, but 1t is always a compliment to be thought interesting. l am quite sure of that. So at least being queer and interesting would make half compliment, and, maybe, as long as they're together, hand in hand, so to speak, they may both be compliments.
 At any rate" continued Teddy, "they had pictures quite a few times in the papers of a great many inter- esting animals. And photographs just like us-too! We were a part of the news, for we were in a newspaper"
 How wonderful" said Grannie Tree Toad "Who were there among the animals?"
 Well, they had a picture of me, showing how I could almost be mis- taken for the leaves and the trees, and that I was very clever to know how to hide myself by wearing such a suit.
 'They had picture of spiny tenroc from Madagascar. The children who saw it thought it looked like a great big burr from a chestnut tree until they read under the picture that 1t wasn't.
 And they had a picture of a rat from the Sahara, showing his great, long skinny legs. They had picture of a marmOset monkey and an owl monkey with his great eyes looking out from the picture.
 "They had a picture of the ocelot cat, and of the great long-necked gi- raffe. They had two pictures of the ugly old wart hog, showing his string like tail in back and crooked husks in front-a picture for each. They also showed the picture of the biggest bear in the zOo."
 But the greatest honor of all," said Grannie Tree Toad, twas that they printed picture of my fine grandson"