Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-06
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURES
"Whife Rabbit and Gray RnbbiP
ny DADDY
CHAPTER Nv
The Manic ShoC

Doggy, who had been turned into a
white rabbit by the magic tickling
wildly as she was pulled by her long
rabbit ears out of the tight, dark pocket
and held up in blaze of light. She was
blinded by the glare in her eyes and
she was alarmed by the rumbling roa'
Where, was she? And what was being
done to her?
Peggy squirmed and twisted until
she could look up at the monster witt
held her To her rabbit eyes he looked
of.tremendous size.
But he was smiling monster. And
her first thought was that he didn't
look very hungry. Perhaps he wouldn't
away, and by the time he got an appe-
tite HoppityHop might come with the
red wintergreen berries 70 change her
back into her own self again.
Then Peggy swung around until she
looked out over the blur of faces she
had glimpsed as she was Jerked from,
the pocket. She could see the faces
more plainly now-the faces of hun
dreds Of grinning and laughing giants,
ing so much pleased? Was the monster
who held her by the cars going to serve
her and Billy to them for dinner?
Peggy Hoped around again and got
she noticed he was dressed in black
dressed that way on the stage.
Her eyes went beyond the monster
Of a place could this be?
Then in a flash Peggy. knev---she was
on huge stage. That blur of grinning
faces must be the audience of giant
must be the clever magician. She was I,
part of n show. Yes, there on table
below her was n hat from which the
clever magician, apparently, had taken
neF gE1 with tboaS, lot Of ribbons fas and bsr tags
this giant % tRestre s' peF Did wsGrs Eaes eGne ike
she saw in the audience live near her
home without her knowing anything
about It?
But Of a sudden Peggy remembered
she had been turned into a white rab-
bit by the magic tickling of Hoppity
Hops whiskers. She was seeing things
through q rabbits eyes and hearing
everything seemed big. The monster was
Just a man-sized magician and the au.
dience was just an ordinary crowd of
men and women. boys and girls, but, of
course, they looked like giants to a
bunny.
The clever magician put Peggy on a
table. where she sat blinking around,
afraid to stir. He plunged his hand into
the hat again and brought to view a
"Quack! Quack :" said the duck as
the clever magician put II on the table
beside Peggy. I'm glad to get out OF
that stuffy place: I like TO get out on
the stage where l can show that l am a
real actor
And the duck began to waddle back
and forth across the table as. If 1t were
a movie player like Charlie Chaplin or
Douglas Fairbanks. He looked so com.
ical that Peggy, upset as she was. had
But where was Billy. who had been
turned into gray rabbit? The magi-
clan drew from the hat bunch of flow.
ers and a cage Of canaries, but no gray
rabbit came forth.
The clever magician then went down
into the audience and began to pick
coins from, the hair of the girls and
eggs from the mouths of boys. He came
at last to one big grinning chap.
What is that you have hidden in
the back Of your coat?" asked the clever
Il haven't anything hidden in the
back OF my coat replied the chap In
why, YES you have" declared the
clever mag gician; perhaps. it is some
thing growing there"
chaps back under his coat and after
a sharp struggle brought out a wildly
thrashing gray rabbit. Yes. it was
Billy.
his winter home in your back and you
never knew it," laughed the clever ma
gician 1T is good thing you came 10
the show tonight and got him out. You
can't tell how big n family he would
have had by spring"
The clever magician carried Billy to
the stage and set him down beside
Peggy. ,.s,o. ou, on,,,
to show you a new way to cook rabbit
pot-pie." he said. "1ll bake these two
rabbits into the finest pie you've ever
SEEN"
"Quack. Quack! Good-by! You are
goners now" said the duck but whethe
he was trying to tease them or really
meant it Peggy and Billy didn't know
What do you think about IL?
DO you think the clever magician will
really try to cook them into a pot.pic?
And II he tries 1t do You think they
will seek to escape?
You'll find the answer in the next
chapter.