6-(S. Ill) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Thurs., Dec 22, '53
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way to find out where Mr. Yodel
wax sleeping
Tinker I the Rmrae
"Well, we haven't come this far
for nothing, " Tinker said. "I've got
an idea."
He went to the basement door
and looked at it carefully. Down
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Nancv wan terribly anrrv to hear " " c " " " ' . L'
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THE TOYMAKERS SECRET
Tk stery m far: The toy
makers are havtag a bard time
flalshlaf their Christmas prrnrM
for Saala Clam and have turned
. U Steve ani Nancy far help.
Chapter X
they could finish the machine """'u,V V he door
which would tell Santa what to f"sTlh"wn! 19 op" lhe d"r
give each girl and bay for Christ-
i for him
Tinker crawled through the hole
workshop to find Steve ,gldc gnd whispcredi ..ynu jlls,
Steve was helping wrap pack-;watch how I get Mr. Yodel down j
ages in the shipping department j nrre without waking anyone else,"
hen ahe found him. "Oh, Steve," i Everything was quiet for a mm-1
he said, "Grundy and the other (lfe an(j then the children heard a
toymakers say they can't finish ! ctaokno clock start to go "cuckoo,
Santa's present because they don't ! cuckoo."
tonight and Friday night
know how to fit all the little wheels j
together to make it work. What
shall we do?"
Steve thought minute and then
said. "What about Mr. Yodel, the
Swiss watchmaker who lives near
us. I'll be', he could fix the mach
ine." 'I
Tm Many Cuckoos
"Thirteen?" asked Nancy. "No
clock is supposed to cuckoo any
more than 12 times."
.lust as she said that a light
turned on in an upstairs bedroom
and the children could hear the soft
pad of slippers coming down stairs.
The children gave a ott tap
Mr.
Tsymaken Get. Stack
'Sav. that's a good idea." Nancv i on the basement door, and
said. "Let's go and tell Tinker." i Yodel himself opened it
Tinker was still in the workshop
where the present was being built,
'What are you children doing
out there at this .time of night? ",
Whn Slv anil nrv avnlained he asked.
their iitea aid P.ninrfv whn was in I "Let me come insidei and ex-
charge of making the present , said.
"If .we can't fix it. I doubt if your i
Mr. Yodel can either.
But Tinker said, "i
Is worth trying. We won't be any ,
worse off than we are now.
FOR THE FltlEST on your Christmas
. CABAffDlN
MEM'S
I plain," Steve said.
Mr. Yodel was introduced to
i Tinker, but he didn't seem particu-
. ... .. i lnrlv mirnrispri In see the little
it sounds line it,, ..-,. ., , . m . i
n niw . mi it nn ,iu who mom !
: my cuckoo clock cuckoo 13 times,
1 ah?" U'B tall Via amri Ctnt-si (nlH
So Tinker hurried around and thc ol) waichmaknr of their pro-
m found several departments that blrm .nd ght)wed nim the box
needed supplies and then he went and the mj,chine the tovmakers
to Santa Claus and asked to -use wfre trying t0 bllild
ine sieign ana reinurt-r iu gu gei
them. ,
Santa said "Fine. Why don't you
take the children along?" which
was just what Tinker wanted him
to say.
A Trip la the Sleigh
So Tinker and the children
bundled themselves up in their
Testing Wheels and Parts ....
Mr. Yodel studied it for a long
time. He tested .several of the
wheels and moved the parts back
and forth. Finally, he looked up.
"I can fixn." he said, "But 1
will need one thing a special
watch spring to make it work."
Turning to Steve, he said. "I
coats. Steve carried the precious , know of only one watch spring
present for Santa under his arm like it anywhere. It is in your
and they all climbed into Santa's : watch, Steve the one I fixed for
sleigh. i 'you as your Christmas present
A crack of the whip and the! this year."
reindeer were off and away into Tomorrow: A Hard Derision
the sky. j x
Steve was so interested in seeing i f afll iVT,ifii lr
the mountains and rivers slip by nrfllll I" 1
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dark and still ia the night as the
sleigh swooped down the street.
But there was bo time to go home
bow as there was work to be done.
The Iwlas Vatchaoaker
The sleigh stopped at the house
Where Mr, Yodel lived.
"Does anyone else live with him
at the bouse?" Tinker, asked. -
"He lives with his daughter and
her husband," Steve said. "'He has
his workshop in the basement. "
I wonder bow we can get Mr.
SEATTLE un Tee-Squnnt-Nee
Jackson is expecting Miss Robbie
Raye Stnplin from Norman,
Okla., Jhis week to become Mrs.
Jackson.
."My name might mean some
thing. 'in Indian; I don't know,"
said the 21-year-old aircraft work
tr, who added that he and his
sweetheart' of childhood days at
Cans, Okla., hope to wed Dec. 30.
"There's' an old Indian custom
around Gans, Okla. The grand
father has the privilege of naming
his son s first-born. The grandfa
Yodel to wake np without waking jther is suppose J to step outside
up everyone else in the house?",! the door at the time of the birth
Nancy asked. . and name the baby for the first
The- big brown house was quiet thing he sees. I never did find what
and there didn't seem to be any 'grandpa saw."
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