THURSDAY, AUGUST 1821.
THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, " OREGON
15
BRINGING UP FATHER
By Georce McManus
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GOIXT !- T. Par chuckled, as
htt laid the paper down and rriimsd
across the porch to where Ma was hunt
ing: slugs in' the porch box ; "I sure'd
like to've seen that tall game."
"Teu're always wanting to' see ball
Kames," Ma retorted, "so 1 1 don't see
anything: special In that wish,"
But I bet this was a rood one." T.
Paer Insisted ; . "it had a lot of dramatieJ
"Where'd you learn them words T Ma
asked sarcastically. "You talk like
you'd been running: around with John
Stevenson."
"I ain't seen John since he quU driv
ing a Ford," T. Paer answered ; "I
guess I can talk when I want to without
takin' lessons of him."
"No body's ever . said you couldn't
talk." Ma smiled. Talk's your middle
name."
"Well." T. Jaer admitted. "I sruess I
do pretty good, considerin' the time I .get
for practice when I'm around this dump.
But just the same I'd like to ve been at
that same.""
"Where was It?" Ma asked, "nd what
made it so different?"
-"It was at Salem, in the penitentiary,1
T. Paer explained, "between the eons "nd
the Portland cops.'.
"Who beat?" Ma asked with some in
terest "It might of been good to watch
at that."
The cons beat, of course, T. Paer
chuckled. "Tou didn't think they'd be
any chance of the cops puttin' anything
over on them fellahs, did you?"
. "They're in the pen. ain't they 7" Ma
asked, suggestively.
-'That's no sign," T. Paer argued.
They mighta give themselves up for all
you know."
; 'The cons ought to beat," Ma insisted :
"they got mere time to play ball'n the
- cops nave." .
- "I don't see' how you make that out,"
T. Paer objected, "when the cops're sup
posed to play ball eight hours a day,
"No wonder taxes're high," Ma ex
claimed; "the idea of George Baker 'nd
Chief Jenkins standing for anything like
that these days."
"It'd be aU right if they Just'd play
inside bail all . the time they, was on
shift," T. Paer insisted, "but every time
George 'nd the chief wants to raise the
battin. average they have to send in -the
moral squad to do the pinch hittin "
"Well, ; Ma observed, "the moral squad
ougni to piay clean nail, anyway."
"Humph." T. Paer grunted. Thafa an I
wfiil .Ansi." .....
It's lust as good aa what you try to
pull," Ma observed calmly. -it could be
sprung in polite society, anyway," 'she
added cryptically. -
All right." T. Paer answered hastily.
"but the cons had a cinch from the pitch,
off." . - . ,
Maybe they did, but I don't see it"
Ma Insisted, "specially if the cops play
every -day." . -
Well." T. Paer diagrammed profes
sionally, "the cops've teen trvin' for a
tong time to get ont the cons -curves.
but some way they don't seem able to
solve 'em."
"They're the same as anybody elses,
ain't theyr Ma asked. '
"Maybe," T. Paer admitted, "but the
cops don't seem to be able to Judge 'em
till they've got three strikes on m."
"Why don't they hit at 'em. anyway T'
Ma asked, "they might land once' in a
while."",
"I got a hunch,' T. Paer grinned, "the
cons had the cops buffaloed.''
"Why V Ma asked in surprise. "No
Portland cop'd be afraid of any of 'era,
would they?
"WeH," "T. Paer asked, "How'd you
like to stand up 'nd let a guy that you'd
helped put in jail heave a pill at your
middle sector?"
"Mercy !" Ma exclaimed, "I hadn't
thought of that. It'd be kinda risky,
wouldn't it?"
"Teah," T. Paer agreed, "'nd how'd
you like to be a catcher with a gas pipe
artist wavin' a bat right in front of
your beezer?"
'I wouldn't like it," Ma responded; "I
believe I'd rather be a umpire."
" 'Nd," T. Paer continued, "how'd you
like to slide into second or dive onto the
plate with a highwayman dancln around
in spiked brogans close to your unpro
tected .ear?' - -
"I'd take no chances, 'nd go out stand
ing up," Ma answered. "No wonder the
cons beat 'era."
"They had it on the boys a little," T.
Paer mused, "I'll say they did.".
A Test or .Patience
tip 1 'fj (
By Thornton W. Bsrgrss
' Impttianc loe; iwtienra wins.
It itickt to what it once brfin.
' . . Ptr Rbbi
REDDY FOX felt very! smart as he
lay in a clump of ferns back of the
old Jog In which Peter Rabbit had found
safety. "Peter Rabbit thinks I have
gnne to the Old Pasture. I didn't look be
hind me once, for J didn't want to arouse
h''- wiisplcions, but I know just as well as
i '" thpt he- watched me out of
sight," thought Reddy. Then he grinned.
crafty, sly, wicked grin, "That
o'-l log is open only on one end so Peter
can see .only in one direction without
cumlnsr t-utr continued Reddy to him
self. 'He'll wait a'while, then come out
itf'M wait until he is sure that I have
had plenty of time to reach the Old Pas
ture., thcrr put he will ,come, or r don't
know Peter Rabbit I am tifrald Peter's
; next racft"WKh "me won't have so happy
an ending for him. But for me " Reddy
didn't finish; he licked his,llps as if he
alruady tasted that Rabbit dinner.
So Reddy Jay hidden In a clump of
ferns behind the old log and was very
comfortable and his thoughts were very
pleasant. It didn't enter his clever head
that there could be a doubt about tin
Rf;bbit dinner. It was merely a matter of
being patient He could 'afford to be pa
tient .Such a. dinner was worth being p
tient for. -
Meanwhile inside that old hollow log
Peter Rabbit was resting and also doing
some thinking. Reddy Fox would have
been ., surprised could he? i have known
' Peter's thoughts. He would, indeed. And
he wouldn't! have been quite so stare of
that dinner,
"Reddy trotted off quite as if he wer
going Just where he said, back to the Old
Pasture! He was altogether too friendly
in his ffflk land he left too soon and in
too much of a hurry. 'While-he was in
sight he didn't once look back. He all
but caught i me that time and the: red
coated sinner isn't tne to take a disap
pointment sjo pleasantly unless he has
another plan. I know him. I ought to
by this timet and I do.
"He- wants me to think-that he has
gone straight back to the Old Pasture.
If that is what he wants me to think the
thing for me to do is to think exactly
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So Peter made himself comfortable
and vrent to sleep. -
the opposite. Of course, I don't know
vhere he is, but I can guess, and my
guess Is that he is somewhere close by
where I can't see him from the open end
of this log. I wish there was a hole at
the other end. I do so. Well, I can tell
lim one thing, and that is, that if he
vaits for me to come out he'll have a
long wait. I need a good sleep, anyway,
and this is the time to get it" .
So Peter made himself comfortable
and went to sleep. Reddy Fox wanted to
take a nap, for he had bee'n out all night,
out he was afraid that if he did Peter
might slip out and away and he know
nothing about it Had he known that
Peter was taking a nap he would have
taken one. But he didn't know it and so
he kept hut eyes open watching that old
og. " I
'Jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun crept
higher and higher In the blue, blue sky
and the heat grew and grew-until even
down there in the swamp under the ferns
and trees it became hard to bear. Reddy
began to pant He wished he was back
in his heme deep in the ground in the
Old Pasture. It was always cool in there.
Mosquitoes and flies itormented htm. But
a Rabbit dinner would be worth all this
and bo he was patient. ,
-MeanwhHe -Peter Rabbit had a good
nap. When he awoke he peeped out
Everything seemed safe. But Peter knew
that very often things are not as they
seenv it is a matter of saving my
life I can afford to be patient" thought
he. "I have got to-know that Reddy Fox
has gone before I venture eut" And
Peter settled himself, for another nap.
(Omricbt, 1831. by T. vT. Burseas)
The next story:
Hole."
Peter Finds a Peep
Building Program
Outwits Rent Hogs,
Birmingham.' Ala., Aug. 4.--(t X S)
Rent hogs of this city are on their last
legs. This has been accomplished by
men who have Instituted a building pro
gram of over four houses daily for the
first six moatif ot 19ZI. . The effect of
the. building boom is already being feft.
and . apartment tenants are chuckling
with glee over the. discomfiture of "ten
ant hounds" who cannot rent their ex
pensive apartments and houses. Various
Individuals and " companies built 770
homes (which do not Include apartment
houses) during the first half of the year
at a cost of 1,591.901. Real estate men
look for an appreciable reduction is
rents when next "moving day," which
Is October I. comes around.
Town Is Jazzing
Way Into Limlight
Kansas City. Mo. Aug S. a jf. &)
orthmoor, a new hamlet populated
by SO families, has developed a "ret It
done" spirit Recently the citisens net
and formed the East Platte County
Booster dub. Since that time the dub
has obtained a right of way for a road,
elected a road committee, asked tor do
nations, and 20 minutes later had "the
coin" all pledged some in cash and some
in monthly payments. North moor does
not want to be known as a "dead" town,
therefore the boosters have, built a cotn
rotiBity house.; They are planning to
use this for . entertainments, banquets
and dances at rearular interval
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