The Oregon daily journal., February 27, 1904, Page 24, Image 24

THE OREGON DAILY, JOURNAL) , PORTLAND.. SATURDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 27, 190L
BESSIE 'BUSYBODY TAKES UP THE ;STUY. OF MAGIC
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if you imagine the one I bought the other day in an suictiotvstore for fifteen
cem is not the real thing, you jet' better read thii story. I found a page in
this rigged olJ book that was beaded, "How to Change Your Size." Then
it told about the Shrinkerihtf Expansornia, Bush, which grows along the
ihom in Heligoland; ;
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a ALL YOU HAVE to do to pldc tnejerr!e and dig out the. root
Tat a berry and you will at once become giant, and the more berries you
eat the more gigantic you will get. Eat a piece o Jie root and you will
shrink. The more you eatlthe smaller you get. Then it told of a bush
brought from Heligoland, and flatted not far from our tioute. So of
course I couldn't "hunt that bush up quick enough. ... '
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j 1 SAMPLED A BIT of the root and grew so small, all of a u J
den, that the Shrinkerino Expansorius Bush looked like an enormous trca
over my head. So I took all the roots and berries 1 could carry and started
out to have some fun. A bird that looked bigger than an elephant lit righi
near me, so I just grabbed hold of his leg, aid when he flew out over the
aea I stayed right with him. ' Y
4 MYI BUTIWAS skeered when I got up among the clouds I But,
O say I when that bird skimmed along, touching the top of the waves, meble
f wasn't sorry I ever read that book of magic He followed along behind i
great big Ocean Steamer for a long time, and finally he lit way up on top of
the. ma Jt-1 was glad to get home, and scrambled down the rope ladder.
Before reacbjatbe deck I a a piece of the Magic Berry and became my
natural size. , '
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fZ- TOLD THET CAPTAIN of the sWp end the passengers how 1
pot there, but what was the use I They thought 1 was telling whoppers. I
lust said. "You wait and see, and I'll prove it." A few days latea the wind
began to blow, then a hurricane came alone and blew the ship nearly off the
map. uqtil nobody knew where we were. Lots of times the big liner almost
turned a somersault as it rolled in the waves. Then we saw some big black
cliffs rising right m front of us. ' "Nothing ran save the ship now!" said
the captain.
v 6 THEN AN I DEA struck me. "I cant" I shouted to the capta'n,
as I twallered two of the Magic Berries. Well, if I hadn't stepped oS that
ship into the water just when I did, my weight would have sunk her, sure. I
grew so big the watrr didn't come up to my knees. I looked down and saw
a tiny, weeny little steamship rising on a wave and just about to' smash
against the rocks. If I had grabbed a second later it would have been in a
thousand pieces. But I picked it up and saved all the little bits of people.
T'SAVEP," DID.! SAY? Well, not metly! I hadn't ny more
than stepped upon (he little island, with the .ship under my arm, when I
walked smack up against a giant at big 4s a mountain. If I was big, you can
imagine how' much bigger that monster was. , I found out later that he was
known in those seaf as the Mohammedan Monster. O, what an ugly bruts
he was! '
ftHIS EYES CAUGHT, THE steamship. He grabbed It out of mjr
hands, and, while he was looking at the tiny little people ( skedaddled. Then
grabbed a handful of Magic Berries out of my pocket and twallered. 'ct
whole. 'Well sayt When I turned around and looked at that Mohammedan
Monster, he seemed to have shrunk a mile. You, tee, the berries had got fa
their fine work, anil I had grown three times bigger than he was.
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. Q-I FOUND HIM READY to make a feast off from bunch of the
psMtngert, who were shrieking and pawing the air in fright. Guess they
were sorry the ship wasn't wrecked. I was ititl atraid of thai Ugly Monster,
und didn't know what to do, until I felt the Magic Roots tnd Berries in my
jxxket Aha I Then I had it I I would stufi tome of the root down his throat
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to I dRABBED "HIM by the throat with na hi'rtS, and In a jifiy
if was done. He had to swallow the roots or choke. The giant melted away
like snow on i stove, and in his place stood a funny little pudgy man begging
for merry. The people who were saved from his Cruel Jaw wanted vtng
spec, of course, but I didn't tee what good that would do, to I just let 'em
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ti-rl HOLLERED, "All aboard Irt and got all the people back cm
the ship, and then I picked the steamer up and set it in the water again. Of
course I was too big to think of jetting aboard until J ate all the Magie
Jloot t had left. My, how-big everything seemed I t -
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li AND WHEN I LOOKED at the big Ocean Liner wfiaj do
you think? ft was starting away and leaving me behind I I' yelled and
waved at 'em, and as soon at the captain saw me he stopped the steamer and
itent a boat back after me. When I got aboard he said fhey thought 1 was
some kind of witch and had disappeared. And then what a time 1 had on
ithat steamer Jintil we got home again ! The people ctfuldn't do enoogh for mt I
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