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The Tiny Folk

(L Hal story 0! tell children he very young children) I It seemed to Susan and David that it was always storming. Here was another day of rain so they would have to play in the house.

”Mommy, could we go over to play at Laurie's?" Busan asked, fl-le'll be lonesome because he has only the baby to play with in the house.”

Mrs. Dale phoned Mrs. Page and talked a while. When she came away from the phone. she said, "Mrs. Page would like to have you to go over to play at her house. Dress yourself, Susan. while I get David ready."

Half an hour later Susan and David were with Laurie in the big Page kitchen. Mrs. Page was busy doing some mending so she said the children could play in the kitchen, Baby Linda sat. in her high chair. playing with a spoon and her rattle.

"Let's play train." Laurie said. ”It would bv lots or fun. way We

use the Chairs, .Vioinniy'.”" "Yes," his niotiicr answered. "Just go ahead and play. You

may use the chairs, just put them back when you are civnc." i

Susan went qi:icki,v to art the; kitchen chairs and pinch tiiein onei behind the other Laurie took two big brown one-: from the next

room and put them b-rhind Iii" green kitrlirn cliazrs. David pullml out the liitie rocking horse and put it in line too.

"Mommy. look at Linda She's lauqhing at us Can't she play

with us too? We'll put her in her high chair in out tram. Please. Mommy.

”Will you bc rircfui not to tip her?" Mother asked ”RPin6nibei'. she is only eight months old.”

"Oh. we will be very careful. "promised Susan and David to- gether. so Mrs, Page carried the high chair over to put at iii"

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and of the train.

What I train thet was! The three kitchen chairs were placed one behind the other at the front. Then there was Baby Lind: in her high chair. Behind that were the two bmwn chain from the dining room with the little mcking horse at the end. Laurie put a big cardboard box on the seat of the front chair. "That's the engine," he said. "Let's all get on our train new."

Youahould have seen the pos- sengers Laurie. Susan, David and Baby Linda all had chairs of their own. Beside them sat Big Brown Bear. Ginger. the teddy, Bugs Bunny, and Susan's doll, Margie Lou.

Boo-o-o. boo, bo-o-o-" whlstled Laurie. "Here goes our train I- way from the station. ”Chug-n- chug, chug, chug-I-chug, chug.

"See. Margie Lou. there is Hell- fax out that window." said Susan. holding up her doll so she could see.

"David doesn't see sn.V'-hinil." complained the two year old bro-

ther of Susan. Susan laughed. "We Ire Jim pretending. We are playing now.

You see what you can see." . ”David see cow," laughed David in great glee. "Look, Bugs Bunny sees cow too." Laurie thought this was mat fun. Baby Linda banged her spoon on the tray of her high chair and

laughed and squealed. "Ah-h-h. da, a-a-ah, bu, bu, bu." she said as she clapped her tiny chubby

hands.

The others thought that was a great joke. ”She's telling us shes is going to Halifax too on this train," Susan said.

Oops! I must put on the brakes." said Laurie, for he was being Hi? driver of the train. "I have to Set out to fix a tire."

Susan squealed with fun. "Oh. Mrs. Page, Laurie thinks that trains have tires. Isn't he funny? Who ever heard of s train with a flat tire?"

Laurie. looked up under the peak of his Daddyiq cap that he was wearing. He lust didn't know what to say. "No, dear, trains don't have tires," explained his mother. "Their his M19315 3” made of iron. But all trains stop at the different stations to take on mail or passenxzcrs or fi'eight.'

"we'll put the paper into this rplutic but and it can be onr mail." said Susan.

David ran over and got Ii box of soap flakes. "David's mail. Big parcel for Mommy." he said. plac- ing it on the train.

Laurie was all smiles now too. He gathered up three pieces of wood and put it in the last car of that funny train. "That is my lumber I'm taking to Borden." hr- said. "Isnlt it too bad we havent another passenger? Mommy, you come and get on our train."

His mother liuiglied. "I'm ton .busy now. mending these holes in your snow suit."

Just then Laurie's little dog.

Frisky, crawled out from behind the stove. He walked over to the train. looked at it. then jumped up. He landed rights on Susan's knee! There he sat. looklniz so pleased with himself, and just as

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AN ONLY CHILD

You'll likely find the going rough Until you learn enough's enough. -4314: Mother Nature.

Baby Prickles was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Prickly Porky. This is the rule in the porcupine family. In this, they are very dif- ferent from their neighbors. Light- foot the Deer, and Mrs. Lightfoot, have two at a time, snd some- times three. It is the same way with Buster and Mrs. Bear. Usual- ly, the Fox family is large. Most of the feathered folk have two or more babies at A time.

"Thiit youngster is likely to be spoiled, being the only one," said Hooty the Owl to Mrs. I-Iooly.

Mrs. Hooty agreed that this was so. "Where there is only one child in the family, it gets too mu:-ii

attention. There is nothing like too much attention to spoil a grow- ing Ciliiri."

Now as a matter of fact, there was no danger at all that Baby Prickles would be spoiled. In the first place. his father had noth- ing to do with him. Prickly Porky is that kind of a father. so there wasn't a chance in the world that he would spoil his small son.

Mrs. Porky was a good mother, but not a motherly one. She nursed the baby as long as he needed nurs- ing, which was for only a short time, but gave him very little at- tention ctherwise. All mother por- cupines are like that. It is partly because of their independence. They themselves have never had to worry much about danger. This is because they are so fully armed with the little spears called quills, which all porcupines carry hidden in their coats and on their tails. Baby Prickles had his share of these little spears. He was born with them. Of course they were small. but they were sharp. And he had plenty of them. So Mother Porky didn't worry much about danger for her lone baby. She knew that folks were going to leave him alone, or be sorry if they didnt. So she paid very little attention to him. Now and then she touch- ed noses with him, which presum- ably was her way of giving him a kiss. when he was big enough to climb a tree. and that was whenl

comfortable as could be. Susanput her arms around him. and he set- tlcd down with a satisfied sigh. ”Wcli, well," exclaimed Laurie. ltNow we have a new passenger too. My! this train is certainly fully Away we go for Borden, then Halifax. Boo-o-o-boo-o-o."

And away cliuggcd that Play-

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he was still so young that most babies of his age would have been helpless. she usually was in the same tree with him. They seldom were very far apart. Otherwise he was left pretty much to his own purposes.

Oi course mother knew there was no danger of his running away, and so ol getting lost. That is a worry that some other moth- ers have with them all the time the children are growing up. Take Mrs. Grouse, for instance. She

'3 '1' Now and then she touched noses with him.

sometimes has more than A dozen children to watch out for at the same time, and they are a lively lot. How in the world she knows where all of them are at any one time, is one of the mysteries of mother love Mrs. Porky has no worries of that. kind. There is no danger at all that one of her babies will get lost just by running about. They don't run about. They may waddle about a little, but most of the time they are up in trees. So, though Baby Prickles was an only child. he wasn't wor- tied about half as much as babies of I big family are.

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"I guess more than one farmer on the Island will be eating out of a tin' this evening.” he remark- ed in a thin. spent tone.

And we laughed, and were glad that happiness in a fair measure was here: grateful too for the food presently set before us. for hours of woi-k...and for the priv-

liege of being a link in that lengthy chain of women which world-over mrt today in annual observance of a World Day oi PI'iI,YPl'.

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