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About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1909)
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1909 t. "Come," said Doc Foster, "here's something we'll do: well see the oM lady who lives in a shoe." So they hitched up the mice to a golden barouche "Nip and Tuck and the Doctor and old Mother Goose. With a turtle for driver, the footman a frog, the party set out with a jog-gity jog. 2. They came to the shoe it was awfully large. 'Twas big a barn or a lumberman's barge. ( There were windows and doors in neat-arranged rows. The old ladv used shoestrings for airing the clothes Everywhere there were children, both outside and in; all were laugliirig or crving a terrible din f vjfS ivr'T .,ry jnfiy c J J., The old lady said : "Dear! I have so much to do, and no one to help me. I'll never get through. The children need baths, there's clothing to mend. I can't rest a minute it's work without end. Oh, fiddle dum dee, what shall I do?" said this charming old lady who lived in the shoe. A Hf -.tlio Iaacs tnrtt- an armful rf lriAe In tVia mtmn ertrA Iir.m all m o rvu tli" um U'BeVlPfl in fl llimL' Doctor Foster, darned stockings an( ironed pinafores; Nip and Tuck washed the windows and scrubbed all'thejBoors The old lady made broth. "When it's ready," she said, "I'll whip all the children and put them to bed." ? , mpmmmmmmmm,tifmu4 mi, j.iwm. J r. im .(innii.i mm ---- . --- . . i i . .. . i i 'M !..,..' ' I'' )i .!.. 5. The children had supper; then, laid in a row, from one to the other the old lady did go.. ; She paddled them lustily .with a big stick jthevneeded it badlv.'she laid it on thick.' i Kip and Vuck got mixed in, and she spanked the both, toa" She'd hate spanked Doctor Foster, the first thing fce knewj 6. I win t sUy any longer. 6ld Doc Foster said. "I'm too big- to lie spanked, and I won't go to bed." , w Meg pardon, dear sir, the old lady did say. But the Doctor wm mud. ami aaid. "X. w9 won't stay. We mm t say good-bye'tftd re'll not come again." They left-cacU one as mad as an old setting lieu.'