He escaped, bu4 I captured him again
and have him locked up safe and sound
ac the police station now. I know he
cannot escape, for I took the bottle of
shrink medicine nnd made the iron bars
shrink so close together hardly a little
mouse could squeeze through.”
“I am very, very anxious to see him !'*
the Wild Gazook said. “Now that you
folks "have seen me, I do not feel so
badly because I look like a Billy Goat,
so now I shall leave this house and
make the Magician give me back my
Granny and change me back into a nice
boy like I was before he threw the
magic medicine on me!’’
Just as soon as Raggedy Ann had
washed the faces of Raggedy Andy, the
nice fat Policeman and Harry Hooly
gooly, for they were covered with black
berry pie, the nice fat Policeman said:
“Now we will take the Wild Gazook
to the police station' nnd let him peep
through the door and see and hear what
we say to the Magician. Then, if the
Magician will not tell us where the
Wild GazOok's Granny has been hidden,
we will let the Wild Gazook in the cell
with the Magician, so that the Wild
Gazook can make the Magician fell
sorry !”
It only- took a moment for them all
t) run to the Policeman’s home and the
Wild Gazook waited with his eye to a
crack in the door while the others went
LISTENING IN ON EVE
Matter Of Hair
Weil, sighed the coed, I ra going
down town to the barber's and have mj
hair trimmed tomorrow. I'd do it today
if A liad time.”
‘•But I thought you were letting il
grow,” exclaimer her mother. It’;
just reaching that hopeless stage. J
know, but in two or three weeks—”
“Hopeless stage 1” her daughter in
terrupted. "That's putting it mildly,
Why, I never was more embarrassed
in m.v whole life than I was last night
at the dance.”
She turned toward the window with
unnecessary abruptness and began play
ing with the cord on the shade. The
mere thought of the previous evening
.brought tears to her eyes. However
the develbpmg'i'K’in of tears was averted
by a series of violent sneeuts».
