Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building Part 31

[Ill.u.s.tration: CONDUCTOR: "ALL ABOARD FOR THE JUNGLE! STEP LIVELY, PLEASE! BOTH GATES!"]

[Ill.u.s.tration: THE THREE GIRAFFE BOYS: "COME ON IN, ROLY POLY, WE'RE DYING FOR A SWIM, BUT THE WATER ISN'T DEEP ENOUGH."]

MOTHER GOOSE'S LAST TROLLEY RIDE

[Ill.u.s.tration: ON A RUNAWAY CAR: "HERE, YOU, CONDUCTOR. I WANT A TRANSFER AND I WANT IT NOW!"]

[Ill.u.s.tration: MOTHER GOOSE: "LUCKY FOR YOU I FELL IN THE WATER. I'LL NEVER TRUST MYSELF ON LAND AGAIN AS LONG AS I LIVE."]

IVAN AND THE WOLF

[Ill.u.s.tration: IVAN SEES THE WOLF]

[Ill.u.s.tration: AND TAKES REFUGE IN A HOLLOW TREE]

[Ill.u.s.tration: HAVING FASTENED THE BASKET WITH HIS STAFF.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: WHILE TWO BABY BEARS LEFT IN THE TREE IMPEDE HIS WAY,]

[Ill.u.s.tration: THE MOTHER BEAR COMES HOME,]

[Ill.u.s.tration: AND IVAN ESCAPES WITH THE CUBS.]

HOMEWARD BOUND

[Ill.u.s.tration: MR. BUNNIE: "COME, MR. MOLEY, TRY THE ELEVATED ROAD, ONCE."

MR. MOLEY: "NO, THANK YOU, I PREFER THE SUBWAY FOR SEVERAL REASONS. I CAN SEE SO MUCH BETTER FOR ONE THING."]

[Ill.u.s.tration: THE FRETFUL PORCUPINE: "HUH! n.o.bODY EVER GIVES ME A BOOST!"]

THEIR LITTLE JAR

[Ill.u.s.tration: 1. TWO BEARS ON MISCHIEF BOUND]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 2. A BIG JAR OF HONEY FOUND.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 3. BEFORE THEY MADE A BETTER PLAN]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 4. BOTH TO EAT AT ONCE BEGAN.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 5. WHITEY b.u.mPED ON BRUIN'S CROWN;]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 6. BRUIN THEN PUSHED WHITEY DOWN.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 7. THIS TO ROUGH AND TUMBLE LED,]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 8. TILL THEY WERE HEELS OVER HEAD.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 9. BRUIN THOUGHT HE WAS IN CLOVER;]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 10. WHITEY CAME AND TURNED HIM OVER.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 11. THEN DID WHITEY ROAR WITH LAUGHTER,]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 12. NOT AWARE WHAT'S COMING AFTER--]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 13. THE JAR IS BROKEN ON HIS HEAD;]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 14. JAR AND HONEY BOTH ARE FLED!]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 15. SAD AND SORRY, VERY SLOW,]

[Ill.u.s.tration: SEE THE COMRADES HOMEWARD GO.]

Little Eski and the Polar Bear

An Arctic Story in Four Chapters

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#FUNNY VERSES AND PICTURES#

_The_ Frog's Fiasco

by D. K. Stevens

There was once a Frog In a lonesome Bog With a voice that was well worth praising.

He had one song and it used to go Way down in the added lines below Like this: [Symbol: music] which is quite amazing.

So he said one day In a casual way "Although it is scarcely vital And I may be wrong, it appears to me That a frog with a voice like mine should be First cla.s.s in a Song Recital."

So he posted sheets In the village streets With the date and the price: one shilling; And he billed himself "_Signor_" because He thought he would get immense applause By the aid of a little _frilling_.

Well, it came about That his friends turned out From the Crane to the Curious Cricket, With the Hare and the Hedgehog, c.o.o.n and Fox, And the Critical Owl in a private box, (On a Complimentary Ticket.)

When the clock struck eight _Signor_ Frog in state Thus opened the exhibition: "For my first attempt on the concert-stump I shall render a song that is called '_Ger-rump_.'

An original composition."