Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 120, 20 May 1922 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1922

How Two Children Helped Save a Dog , Once upon a time there were , some people who were very hard working; they were also very poor. But the people were very kind to all birds and animals. The , people's names were Smith. ; Mr. and Mrs. Smith had two children whos names were Mary and Frank. They lived iu a white house near a small woods.

One summer day Mary and Frank were going to the woods to get some raspberries. They had started to the woods, but came back to say good-bye to their mother. 1 When they had all their berries picked they started to go home. When they had gone a little . distance, the children heard a noise. They went where the noise came from. They found that it was a dog. They saw that the dog had hurt Its paw. The children didn't know who owned the dog. The children felt very sorry for it. They set their berries down and Frank took the dog up and carried it home, while Mary took the . berries. All the way home they talked about how they would care for it. Whttn they got home they told their mother all about the dog. The mother took the baskets in the house and came back with a bowl of milk. She put the bowl of milk up to the poor dog and it was so hungry that it drank that all up, and they got some bread for it and it ate that up, too. Then they took the dog in and bandaged up his sore paw. They kept the dog until it got well; then they found out the owners and gave it back to them Thev were sorry to let It go. But one day it came back to them and never would leave them again. Martha Schaeffer, age 10, grade 5, Centerville, Ind. Robin Hood's Story Once I wa3 a little boy; 1 learned to shoot a bow; I lived within a castle old, In England, long ago. The Norman3 burned my father's . house, They killed my father, too; My mother died from .fear and fright, And then, what could I do? My uncle let me stay with him. I was sad and lonely then, And wished to see my good old home Till I thought of my bow again. I heard about the shooting match: At Nottingham would it be. I had to go through the King's greenwood. Three foresters saw me. They said I could not shoot a bow; They set a target there. "Shoot first!" said I to one of them; "All right, the shot is fair." I shot right through the target there. "Ah, you can't do It again!" Just then a deer came running out "Shoot mat!" said of the men. And then I shot and killed the deer. "You'd better run away!" I ran into the woods to hide, And there I had to stay. Grades 3A and 3B, Sevastopol school. (Brought in by Ada Van Voorhis, reporter.) DEVOTED PEWEE MOTHER The 6tory Is told that one time some pewees the birds that build their nests in deep, shady woods, came to build in a village, and they had not yet learned the best way to select places for nests in their new surroundings. They seemed to think the main thing was to select a horizontal limb suited for the foundation of the nest. They did not think about shade. As they worked early mornings and evenings, they did not find out until too late that they were building where the sun would strike the nest in the very hottest part of the day. The little peewees were naicneu in July. So, each day the devoted mother bird made a screen of herself by sitting on the edge of the nest toward the sun and spreading her wings so u to protect her Little ones. I

While Billy listened Jack told Tom that he had not heard about the circus. Tom, who had just returned from The Corners where he had gone on an errand for his mother, then told him about the show bills that some men were putting up on the sides of the postoffice and blacksmith's shop. He said that he had waited so long to see them all that he had forgotten all about his errand he called it his "old errand" that hla mother was waiting for the baking powder and that he had caught "hail Columbia' 'when he finally got home. Jack said that was nothing, it did not hurt when a fellow was used to it as he was, and that If he had been in Tom's place he would not be home yet. From this you can see what sort 1 T 1 ' oi a Doy jacK. was. Billv Whiskers.-whn was Rtanil ing near by at the time, smiled to himself for only the day before he had both seen and heard Jack Wright, who was now talking so bravely, spanked for going in swimming after his mother had told him he mustn't because the water was too cold and likely to make him sick. Jack hadn't acted then as though It didn't hurt. In fact, it had hurt so much and made him so mad that he had almost decided to run away from home and join the gypsies who were then camping at the river not far away. But he hadn't gone far after all and was now waiting for his friend Tom to tell him more about the circus. It made him almost sick when he thought that very likely his mother might, as further pun ishment for his disobedience, not only not let him bo to the big show, but put him to catching potato bugs instead. "If she does," thought wicked Jack, "I certainly will run away and never come back." He got some consolation out of imagining how much they would miss him. While he was planning this revenge, Tom was talking as fast as he could and his stories were all the time getting bigger and bigger. By the time he said that the elephant was as big as the corn barn,

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How Thelma Spent Her Birthday Dollar It was to be Thclma's birthday, and her uncle John gave her a dollar for a present. One morning Thclma's mother said, "What are you going to buy with your dollar.?" Thelma said, "I thought I would buy one of those beautiful dolls with sleeping eyes and curly hair." "That would be all right," said her mother. Then she said, "Will you mail this letter?" "I would be delighted to," said Thelma, so Thelma went and she met two boys with a dog, and thoy were treating it very rough. Then she said, "Don't be so rough to that dog; he 13 very nice." Then they said, "It is ours." She said, "How much would you sell him for?" They said, "Give us one dollar." Then she felt sorry for him and bought him, and her uncle bought her that beautiful doll and she played very nice with both of them. Mary Catherine Boinnan, grade 5, age 10, St. Andrew's school.

PARENTS INVITED TO GARFIELD SCHOOL EXHIBIT An exhibit showing work done by various departments of Garfield school will be held at the school Thursday and Friday, May 25 and 26. It will be open also on Friday evening, at which time a group of juniors from the Garfield orchestra will give an informal musical program. All juniors are urged to in vite their parents to visit this exhibit. Cooking and dress making work will be on exhibit on the third floor in charge of Miss Shera and Miss Boyd. Helen Evans, 7B, is making placards for the dressmaking exhibit and Mr. Bristow for the cooking exhibit. Girls of the 7A grade will wear the dresses they have made this semester. Several interesting exhibits will be shown In cooking among them a hot lunch such as may be served for about twenty cents, a cold lunch, an invalid tray and a menu for a faculty luncheon with the first course served. Pies and cakes and salads on exhibit will be sold to visitors later in the eveI ning. By Ad Carter

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"Red" 'is the nickname for a boy named James, who lived on the outside of the small town of Lorenco. Red and his mother lived in a house by themselves, on a large river. Red was a naturalist. Ho had made a large sail boat, iu which he sailed on the river, and sometimes he would go to town in It. One day Red got a letter from his cousin in a large city, saying that he would bo at Red's house in about three days to stay about a year or so, until time lor an academy, to which he wanted to go, to start Red began making preparations for his cousin Archie's stay; he was glad to have Archie with him because they were like brothers to each other. The third day, while Red was out in his museum of animals and birds, he heard a growl and quickly grabbed his guu and headed for the place where he heard the noise. While he was running along he lifted his head to look for his prey but when he looked up and saw a big grizzly coming right at him, he lifted his gun and fired. When the smoke cleared away, the bear was still coming and about six feet from him. He had no more shots, as he had only one in the gun, and it had been lired. What will he do? (See next week.) Claude II. Bond, Dennis Junior High school. Hero A Shepherd Dog One day in June it was very hot. A little girl by the name of Edith was playing in the yard. Her father and mother had gone to town and she was there alone. She had a big shepherd dog and was in the yard playing with him when it began to rain and soon it began to thunder and lightning. She went in the house and ran upstairs and laid down on the bed, so she could not see it lightning and hear it thunder bo plainly. She forgot about the dog. The house caught on fire, and Edith had fallen asleep. There were several people there by that time and her father and mother were looking around the house for her. The dog came running up from the barn and they thought Edith would be with him. They went and looked, but she was not there. When they came back the dog ran in the house. They called him but he went right in. When he came out he was dragging Edith. They took her to the doctor and she soon became well. She thought very much of the dog after that and called him Hero. Vonda May Glunt, grade 7, Middleboro school. Two Surprises One bright autumn morning, Robert and Henry asked their mother if they could go to the woods and play. After they got their mother's consent they started for the woods. When they had gone about a ,mile from home they saw a donkey In the pasture eating grass. Robert, who was the oldest, said "Come on, Henry, we will have a good chance to have a ride on a donkey." Then they made their plans about how to get the donkey to stand still. Henry, was to hold some sweet clover in his hat while Robert got on the donkey. After Robert got on the donkey, Henry threw the rest of the clover over the fence. This made the donkey angry and he started to run fast. This was great sport for the boys. The donkey ran till he came near a brook. The donkey then began to buck . He threw Robert off. He landed across the creek. When he got to his feet he said, "Let's go home." But Henry said, "I have not had my ride." Robert said, "Hurry up I'm going home; I'm hungry." Robert persuaded Henry to go home, and when they got home there was a surprise. They found twenty boys and girls there. His mother had a birthday party in honor of Henry's birthday. He did not know it was his birthday, so it was a happy surprise, and Henry was glad they went home. The End. By Marguerite Muckridge, Middlebero school.