Judge — October 22, 1921 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Nothing to Boast Of By BERT ADAIR SEELHOFF AID little Bobby Boliver, “Our family’s old, you see, We've got a family coat-of-arms, Likewise a family tree!” K “Pooh, pooh, pooh, pooh, we're got one too,” Said little Bessie Linnit, “It’s every bit as good as yours, And there’s a bird’s nest in it!” Tadpoles By KATHERINE NEGLEY NE day, Johnny Jones was walking by a pond when he saw some gummy substance float- ing on the water. A few days afterward, this gummy substance was gone and in its stead were a lot of little black creatures wriggling in the water. They were After that, they did not eat any- thing for quite awhile, but then they ate another of their number, then another and another until there were only four left. In the meantime, they had changed. When Johnny caught them, they had very long tails and their bodies were so small they looked like small blots of ink. By and by, their tails grew shorter and shorter, and tiny marks came on their stomach which after awhile turned out to be little legs. the back yard, they saw the tiny frogs, and ate up all four of them. A Story, Kids By BATTELL LooMIs ONCE upon a time a baby ate a dime, So they fed the child on mint; They did this without stint Thinking, by and by, the mint would multiply And push up thru the cellar Of their kid—a silver dollar; But alas, plain That all they got was holler And all pain. it soon was he got was Dollie’s Dream By VIVIAN YEISER LARAMORE Y dollie had the zh very best dream, All about cookies and chocolate cream. All about pudding and tadpoles. Johnny caught eight of them and kept them at home in a jar. He gave them meat, flies and worms to eat but do you think they ate them? No, they did not. Instead, they began to eat each other. First they picked out one of their number and seemed to bite him. He tried to get away but there was no place to go, so they sucked his skin off and then ate him up. Drawn by Frank VERBECK. Mr. Monk—Some boarding-house reach, believe me! Their heads and bodies grew thicker, and at last they looked like frogs, only they were very little. Johnny left them out in the back yard, and watched them hop around. He meant to see how they grew into big frogs, but what do you think hap- pened? Well, the old leghorn rooster and the little black hen came walking into blue-berry pie And long. sticks of candy that reached to the sky. How do I know that her dream was so sweet? I was there with her, right under the sheet. And I think that really she should have the dream When I had the cookies and choco- late cream. Jonah and the Humanitarian—First Aid to Jonah’s Declining Morals. 28 \ comicbooks.com oa