Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-29
CHAPTER vi
Tho End Of the Mystery

Tho Emu VI shO nhsp'hs
nu,HIs surely is a deep. deep mys-
II terry" said Billy. looking down at
A.. strange tracks after Old Timer
r,r,,e had said they were made by two
.svr,hle oeres. 'If the tracks we're
~.de bv ogres, they couldn't have been
,,,ae by Jolly goblins. as Lonesome
o.,r saws. And IL they were made by
,.,lv soblins they couldn't have been
,oae by bowling monkeys, as Judge Owl
avs And II they were made by howl
,rs monkeys they couldn't have been
made by big. bold, beautiful fairy giants
=. the humming birds say"
peggy agreed with everything Billy
aid She was as much puzzled as he
vas
uIets follow the tracks just little
,,rther," she suggested. But let's go
,,ry carefully for ! don't want to be
robbled UP by any horrible ogre .,
The tracks turned back into the woods
.,s after much turning and twisting, led
!, last to the very sand brook where
N. children had been wading when the
.rayfish nipped Peggy's toe. 1t was
plain that the tracks had gone In a
Big circle.
looking into the water they saw the
erswfsh with all her little ones,
vs.t animals made the tracks" said
Hilly, and at once he sang a little song:
"Crawfsn. Crawfish. In the brook.
Tell us, tell US, where to look,
To find the beasts, bad or good,
that made the tracks in the wood"
The orawfish. crept partly out Of the
vster 90 she could talk TO the children.
'Don't you know who made the
tacksT' she asked In a. queer. watery
"STo. Please tell U.S." said Peggy
They were not made by beasts
ssid the crawfish They were made
Sy queer wingless, wading birds. whose
anger nearly slew me, but whose hearts
saved me. Look in the deep pool be-
Peggy and Billy bent over the deep
POOL, but they didn't see what they
erpected to see. They saw only their
own faces thrown back as by looking
There are the big, bold. beautiful
fairy giants" hummed the humming
birds fitting overhead
There are the bowling monkeys who
woke me up" hooted Judge Owl. look
ine down at them through his goggles.
'IneT6 arc tic JOlly BOplulS WHO SdNeu
my life and tail" growled Lonesome
Bear, poking his head through the
There are the horrible ogres who
hurled rocks at my grandchildren and
who wanted to eat me In SOUP" hissed
Old Timer Turtle. poking his head out
OF the water.
Peggy and Billy looked hard into the
pool, but they couldn't see any Of these
creatures
we see uothing but ourselves cried
Hoo Hoo, Ha! Ha! Hee, Hee
Hiss! Hiss Whom did you expect to
see? Who made the tracks," sang all
the creatures, grinning broadly.
Peggy and Billy ran to the tracks and
looked at them again. To their surprise
they found four sets of tracks instead
saw that their own tracks were just
like the strange tracks.
Why they are our own tracks. made
wth our bare feet" cried Peggy. 1--WE
didn't know. 'em because we've been
shoes But Why did every one tell
US such stories?" Billy laughed.
y see It all now. They just told us
bow we looked TO them. We were big,
bod. beautiful fairy giants to the hum,
ming s1nn birds 3bn after saying the male bird
monkeys to Judge Owl when we awaken,
ed him from his nap. We were Jolly
gobliHs to Lonesome Bear when we got
MN out Of the rabbit trap. We were
horrible ogres to Old Timer Turtle
when we threw rocks at his grand
children and joked about turning him
INTO turtle soup. And we were wing
less wading birds to the crawfish."
-, Hoo Hoo Ha Ha! Hee Hee Hiss
HISS Now you see yourselves as others
ss you" chuckled and giggled the
creatures. and they fed away into the
woods and water. And Peggy and
Billy giggled and chuckled, too, and
nen they laughed and laughed and
laughed. The joke was on them.
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