THE HAPPY TIMES
Newspaper for Boys and Girls
It's Storytime
Nixie Loses His Wav
(Summary: Mrs. Cottontail has
taken her five bunny children to
the farmer's garden for their
first lesson in getting food. When
danger is near Nixie continues to
do as he pleases, talking saucy
to his mother. This makes Mrs.
Cottontail very angry with Nix- |
Part 3
By this time Nixie had had so
many good things to eat that he j
felt very cheerful indeed. He j
laughed and he chattered and was J
as silly as possible.
I Presently he began jigging and |
hopping and dancing round and
round. He took a cabbage leaf i
and twirled it around his head. !
Then he began to sing and shout
? at the top of his voice:
"Sing high, sing low, heigh-ho I
Hip-hop and pippy-pop;
Gay is the world. 1 know?
Hip-hop, and never stop."
"I wonder where the child learn
ed that' said Mrs. Cottontail to |
herself She was so surprised that
she did not even try to quiet her |
naughty son.
But suddenly she heard steps. ]
The farmer was coming toward j
the garden It did not take Mrs. !
Cottontail long to make up her j
mind that it was tim*1 to leave. She j
signaled to her little bunnies by I
going thump! thump! thump! on j
the ground with her hind paw.
"Run! run for your lives!" she'
cried. "Run, or the farmer will
catch you!"
"As for you, Nixie," Mother Cot
tontail called back to him, "I'll
pull you ears when we get home!"
And they ran as fast as their |
fluffy legs would carry them.
Mrs. Cottontail was in the lead, j
The little rabbits were close at her ,
heels. They kept their eyes fixed
on the snow-white, stubby tail of j
their mother, which was both a
guide and a danger signal.
Now Nixie didn't like to have his !
ears pulled. So when he heard his I
mother's threat, he fell behind the
other bunnies. While the others
were going faster and faster, he |
kept going more and more slowly. !
At first he was but a few leaps
behind: then he was a few more.1
At last, he was so far behind that
he could hardly see the danger
signal. He thought that if he went j
slowly enough he would reach j
home much later than the rest of
them. They would be fast asleep
when he got there.
Then he would sneak in without
having his ears pulled! And he
believed that by morning his moth
er would have forgotten all about ?
his naughtiness.
But somehow Nixie lost his way.
and entered the wrong habbit-hole, i
though he was too tired and sleepy
to know it until he woke up the j
next morning. I
Happy Birthday
Today:
Andy Gillikin, route 2 Beaufort,
is 7 years old.
Thursday :
J. V. Suttles Jr., Mesa, Ariz., will !
be 6 years old.
Jack Riley Daniels, Cedar Island,
will be 4 years old.
Saturday:
Keith Hill Mitchell, Morehead
City, will be 8 years old.
Monday:
Charles K. Tolson III, Morehead
City, will be 7 years old.
Yet it would seem that he ought
to have known it. Almost anybody
with half an eye could have seen
the difference, provided he kept
that eye open. The Cottontails'
home was in the side of a hill.
This other hole started beneath the
roots of a very big tree. The en
trance to their home was ever so
crooked, zigzagging this way and
that, and almost every other way.
This hole went on straight like a
tunnel for a long way, then it dip
ped suddenly down. Then it went'
on almost straight again, only in
a different direction.
Nixie never stopped to notice any
of these things, which goes to show
that he was not a very wise rabbit
Perhaps he wasn't old enough to
be very wise!
And as he had never before been
away from home, I suppose he
thought his own rabbit-hole and
their rabbit village to be the only
ones in the whole woods around!
You may be sure it didn't take
Nixie long to find a place to lie
down. He was so tired that he
flopped down upon the warm soft
sand and was soon fast asleep, i
His eyes were closed, his body!
was stretched out full length, his I
head rested on his forepaws, and
his ears were turned back close j
to his body. If you had seen him
lying there so, you would have j
thought he was dead. But he wasn't !
dead, you may be sure of that!
And I shouldn't wonder if Nixie
had happy dreams that night.
(To be Continued)
Two Members Celebrate
Leap Year Birthdays
Two Birthday Club members
celebrated their birthday on Mon
day, Feb. 29, which is known as
Leap Year day. This day comes
only once every four years, so
anyone bom on this day really has
a birthday only once in four years.
Most folks celebrate the day before
or the day after, though.
Julaine Annette Akridge of More
head City celebrated her first real
birthday. She was born in 1956.
Lester Haskett Jr. of Newport is
one year older than Julaine, al
though he was born in 1952.
Confusing isn't it? We'll be hap
py to enroll any other Leap Year
children in our club, or anybody
else under 12 for that matter, no
matter when they were born!
V>U Ann Willis
I WOULD LIKE TO JOIN
THE NEWS-TIMES BIRTHDAY CLUB
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Four Willis's
Join the Club
Well, it's Birthday Club time
again. We are introducing four new
members today. We are happy to
have them and hope they'll like be
ing in our club. They all have the
same last name ? Willis!
Debbie Ann Willis and her broth
er. William B. Willis Jr., of More
head City, Terry Willis of Marshall
berg and Veta Ann Willis of Mar
kers Island are our new members.
Each year on their birthday our
members receive a card in the
mail. Their name appears in the
H ipy Birthday column too. All
this ? plus being introduced to the
other members when you join.
Sound like fun? Why not join
and see for yourself? All you have
to do is fill in the blank on this
page or write a letter to THE
NEWS-TIMES giving your name,
address, present age and date of
I birth. There is no charge and any
I one under 12 may join.
Terry Willis
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March 3? Mr. and Mrs. Walter
D. Heath and Mrs. C. M. Hill spent
Wednesday in New Bern.
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Baldwin of
Chadbourn were the weekend
guests of their daughter, Mrs.
Lewis Hibbs, and her family.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Gillikin were
in New Bern Wednesday.
Mrs. Roy T. Garner went to Dur
ham Sunday to visit her father,
C. T. Cannon, who is a patient in
Watts' hospital. She was accom
panied by Mrs. Carol Jones.
Mrs. W. H. Bell, Mrs. A. L. Wil
son and Miss Edith Lockey spent
Wednesday in New Bern.
Herman Cutler of Washington,
N. C., who has just returned from
a tour of duty in Okinawa, spent
Saturday night here with his sis
ter and brother-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Cutler. The three of
them and Gordon Jr. went to Wash
ington Sunday to visit their par
ents.
Friends of C. S. Long and M. J.
Mitchell, a former resident of New
port, will be glad to know that they
are improving in the Morehead
City hospital.
WSCS Meets
The Woman's Society of Chris
tian Service met last Monday eve
ning for the general meeting. Due
to the illness of the president, Mrs.
Sam Edwards, Miss Elsie Elliott
presided and gave the devotional.
A playlet entitled This Is The
Day was given by Mrs. Ralph
Fleming Jr., Mrs. W. V. Garner,
Miss Margaret Bell, Mrs. Letha
Henderson and Mrs. Lemuel C.
Mann.
Reports were given and minutes
Debbie and Billy Willis
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grape juice
3. Deer's horn
4. Source of
sugar
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cocks
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game
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vehicle
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State abbr
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read. A brief business session was j
held. The attendance was small j
due to illness in many homes.
Mrs. Ivah W. Haskett was the j
honoree Sunday when her sister, i
Mrs. Solon Perkins, aad a niece,
Mrs. Edgar Hibbs, held open house
at the home of Mrs. Perkins from
3 to 5 o'clock. Mrs. Haskett was
celebrating her 17th birthday with
a total of 68 years. Approximately
seventy-five friends and relatives
called to wish her a happy birth
day.
Fruit punch, mints and nuts were
served with the four-tiered birth- 1
day cake attractively decorated in
red and white.
The linen cloth covered table had '
lovely arrangements of red camel- j
lias and candles, and red camel- 1
lias in the other rooms carried out j
the red and white motif.
Historic Mansion Razed
To Make Way for Homes
St. Louis (AP)? An historic old
house, once the home of the son
of Gen. William Clark of the Lewis
and Clark expedition, is another
victim of overcrowding.
The mansion, called "Minoma,"
is to be torn down to make room
for a housing development.
A tower on the old mansion was
used as a lookout post for Indians.
Jefferson Clark, son of Gen.
Clark, lived for many years in the
mansion.
Since the 10th century, the Free
City of Danzig on the Baltic has
been alternately occupied by the
Poles, Germans, Russ^anj and
once uneJer League of Nations su
pervision.
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March 4-Mr. and Mrs. Clifton
Yeomans and son, Vaughn, left last
Saturday to spend the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. Ikie Wade at
Apalachicola, Fla.. to visit Mr. and
Mrs. Darrel Wade at Fascagoula,
Miss., and to attend the Mardi
Gras this week.
Mrs. James Lynch is visiting
Mrs. Euclid Wade and family at
Norfolk, Va., this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Chadwick i
of Clearwater, Fla., and Mr. Bob
by Chadwick of St. Petersburg,
Fla., visited Mrs. Harry Chadwick
and family this week after attend
ing funeral services for Mr. George
Adams of Morehead City Wednes
day. ,
Mr. Gene Rae Lynch of the U. S.
Army was a visitor with Mr. Scot
tie Lynch last week, before leav
ing for California.
Railways in Iraq are spending
two million dollars on new coaches
and locomotives.
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Cubs Start New Project,
Visit Store Thursday
Den 1, Cub Scout pack 367, met
at the home of the den mother,
Mrs. F. W. Adams, Thursday. The
Cubs started working on torn toms
and each gave a report of the proj
ect he had started, # reporting on
and making a model uf a North
Carolina city.
The cubs visited a paint store
and were told about different kinds
of paint brushes, the difference in
bristles and other things a painter
must know.
New York (AP)? Americans used
11* billion pencils last year, or
about nine per person, reports the
Lead Pencil Manufacturers Asso
ciation. American industry was
the biggest pencil user, followed
by schools and government.
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Fair ? Martin Braddock ? Rust Bandar
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