VATED ROAD, ONCE."

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

[Illustration:
THE FRETFUL PORCUPINE: "HUH! NOBODY EVER GIVES ME A BOOST!"]

THEIR LITTLE JAR

[Illustration: 1. TWO BEARS ON MISCHIEF BOUND]

[Illustration: 2. A BIG JAR OF HONEY FOUND.]

[Illustration: 3. BEFORE THEY MADE A BETTER PLAN]

[Illustration: 4. BOTH TO EAT AT ONCE BEGAN.]

[Illustration: 5. WHITEY BUMPED ON BRUIN'S CROWN;]

[Illustration: 6. BRUIN THEN PUSHED WHITEY DOWN.]

[Illustration: 7. THIS TO ROUGH AND TUMBLE LED,]

[Illustration: 8. TILL THEY WERE HEELS OVER HEAD.]

[Illustration: 9. BRUIN THOUGHT HE WAS IN CLOVER;]

[Illustration: 10. WHITEY CAME AND TURNED HIM OVER.]

[Illustration: 11. THEN DID WHITEY ROAR WITH LAUGHTER,]

[Illustration: 12. NOT AWARE WHAT'S COMING AFTER--]

[Illustration: 13. THE JAR IS BROKEN ON HIS HEAD;]

[Illustration: 14. JAR AND HONEY BOTH ARE FLED!]

[Illustration: 15. SAD AND SORRY, VERY SLOW,]

[Illustration: SEE THE COMRADES HOMEWARD GO.]

Little Eski and the Polar Bear

An Arctic Story in Four Chapters

[Illustration]

#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 class 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, Coon 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 re