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Custard What is aTeaspoonful? NEW VIM FOR WEAK, THIN, PALE WOMEN T O enjoy your work and hare your ahare of the pleasures of life get rid of tfeat run down feeling and enrich your thin blood. Begin right now to taka Code’s Pepto-Mangan. It will help drag- you wonderfully. M. ysur gist's, in both liquid hnd Uh FmTri«IT«Uei£CJSas5 vmiM of GoS^S tm Trtel Co. M W. Su. M- Z. Gude’s r>W4 laid m» >«■■»•> If mm e • • sai m+m i *et • oM. mi a • w*w« e# e ■ o ■ m mm IV §•«> Ms aooU -«• a* h* ae ana aoa»Sf sg r-ew a^ T» »oso*s« V*ee» ws CNArrm —tr— IH»e edged late ike room “Are you hawing a good tlmeT - she began con varMtloanlly. Perennial Prue Jumped. fairly clutched at her work, t’nde Jerry frowne<l heavily. Lettle, dinging to the role of hoatess, smiled gcnlnlly. "Y<.u look awful Int'rusted in euch other. 1 gueMa you—" “I>eltle, didn’t I tell you—” It wa* Unde Jerry’s voice—a aev-ere voice, too, hut Lettle scarcely llstene<l. She stepped In front of Prudence. “Miss Hapgood,” she said confiden tially. “ain’t It a funny thing, the way your cheek* get all colored up when you talk to Uncle Jerry? Pen/.le's don’t. Sometimes she talks to him a long time, and she don’t ever—” “Oh," gasped Prudence In pitiable confusion, ‘‘It’s only because—because he was telling about—" Her delicate hands fluttered In distress. “ 'Shaw Don't get so nervous," ad vised Lettle briskly. "Ain’t nothing to make you nervous. Just make yourself to home." She was vary sure of the correct ness of this phrsse. It being much thought of In The Custard Cup. and she was therefor* hugely sstoplahed when she felt a firm hand on her Shoulder, a band with rooipelllag force that switched her shout sad marched her toward the kitrhew. “Te think ef you. talking to a tody that way!" ept uttered l arte Jerry "Teed better May ta dm kltrWu it ft the m CHAPTgR XVI , Lottie the Inventor. The young Penflelds were In coun cil. Christmas was only u week off. anti It was no longer to be Ignored. They had been craftily watching for signs of mystery', hut the testimony of all three wus tint and without hope. "I liain’t never had a Christmas.’’ contributed Thad. • "I hnln’t, neither,” countered Let- .tlc shortly, “nnd I’m twice as old as you—mehhe more. We huln’t none of us hud a Christmas.” "Yes, I had one,” admitted Crink, proud of the fact and yet regretful to dethuet from the record of woe. “I was with Penzie last year, and we had a pretty good time, but there wasn’t no tree. Seom^ as If,” he added, with a sidelong glance at Let- tie. “seems as If now there’s three of us, we’d oughter have a tree.” He had the greatest faith In Lettle, hav ing seen her put through more than one scheme that gave little promise of aucceM. And .Immediately the caught the In aM u* rytkta*—feu ahonth* mat. hr Mra Peafietd . cnhalderad. "Yoa mean a tree and trimmings and pre» anin—" "Yes. and presents for everybody In Tha Custard Cup,” supplemented Let- lie. “Kv'rythlng swell—a big i»arty!’’ "Why. I<ettle. if you was to do it on a big scale like that and have ev'ry- thing grand. It’d take—I’m ’frald It’d take a dollar.” Gravely Lettle reflected upon this huge block of solid finance, as yet un- negotlated. “If we’ll raise a dollar,’’ she stipulated slowly, "honest-to-good- ness earn It, will you show ns how to have a big blow-out Christmas—lots of presents nnd fixings—and strings of things all over the trees—and candles —and a big party?" “PH do that very thing, Lettle," promised Mrs. Penfield. “But—” “It’s as good as done,” shouted Let- tie. "Oh. Penzie. I love you harder all the time." She flew at Mrs. Penfield. strangled her for a moment with a thoroughness that was fortunately brief, and dashed through the big door Into the driveway, to ventilate her ex uberance In the open air. Clink followed "Say. 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TWa •aid pnlAsd We a. If raprfh • ••we eApedvlarly ■pAtaslafk yon nWt I tWmght. | t— that we’d Wve a fine da tpfw**. obb •Si ■ A arit kra t -Wn-ama an 4 RRtw tf'fedf (few •«#U| iA • t»Y *• ’y ra» ajp fit# br* •t A Iray mmm tahkailio^ BfWRR*l |l m rmnam lip caraa Is eight. ax handbltlc IdHtlp * atrhod him rlun b atrpa, alip a •b-lgor andat tha door, step*. run down again, rluab •>fhp» r your 6—hr or wrHo v. for i and n.m. of doahr namr yam. ALLEN IIFO. COMPANY Nash villa w m Ta SELDOM SEE Un«ie Jerry and Prudence, fright ene«1 hy the uproar, burnt Into the kitchen, and with lightning rcuponse to the all penrsdlng stltnulus. Joined In the general sneezing. At the same moment Mrs. Penfield came flying through the house nnd swooped down upon her distracted family wlth^fte^ gctlc command. “Get out of the hoifba^ev’rybody, she cried. Jerry Winston sprang forward transferred the hof griddles to the end of the stove. Mrs. Penfield snatched ji^toweU wet It under the faucet, nnd hehLtt^tct tier nose while she deadened the flre'mul opened the windows. ^ The tortured fanlly^apd the tor- ttrrotj guest fled , to the hack yard." fightlng-tlje red-hot misery that clung In their throats, breathing in grea breaths of the cboi^alr that soothed and inflamed at the same time. "O Penzie." walled Lettfe-^daiicing about In agony, “I—honest to I waa—was trying to anterrai all right” choked tW Her ga««* <-enwsl to ftdlow the boy , , l»e< atue fixed, dreamy. Her body wa* r it to • bakery chrap, and Pm tlekbsl | r . IH , rffe e. nhf mur to death. I’m going to try out a lot of It in the oxen, and It’ll keep for weeks. Well have bread pudding and codfish scallop nnd—” "It would make stuffing," put in Crink eagerly. * . "In some families It would, Crink, hut we don’t have nothing to stuff— except ourselves. But ’bout Christ- ii.hs—i thought wed play games and tell stories and teach Filibuster a new trick and pop some corn. You we’d have an. awful busy day, just chuck full of pleasure.” Thad scrambled to his feet and ap~ preached her -with reiteration. “We want u'Hroe, Penzie. All of us wants one.” ‘‘Bless your sweet heart!” Mrs. Penfield caught him into her arms and kissed him; then set him down again. Now, ehJldreh, I’ll tell you how “is tree. This year we got a heap of things to buy. Ain’t one of you got s decent shot, nnd Clink’s got to have a new suit, or he can’t bold up bis bead In arboaL Yes. I know you'd laai « ■ra^araa m mmj raw «ay. mm IW« yj*, fMMM la tbrae hafetrad and atxiy 8*» mt 'mm mured. “I’m getting an Idea. I car 'most see it.” It developed that this particular Idea was not to he captured In the space of ten seconds, hut Lettle stayed by with Incredible patience. Finally the mental visioning was clarified. 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