ADVENTURE NUMBER THREE
THE WOMAN AND THE WIZARD
Sure Pop, the Safety Scout, drew a long breath and watched the automobiles whirling recklessly down the busy street. "But say, haven't you twins had enough stories for one day?"
"Not much we haven't! What did the King do next?"
No doubt about the twins' being thirsty for adventure! Sure Pop smiled.
"Well, a single wave of the King's hand dismissed his people. Looking very sorrowful, he opened the great book in which he keeps the record of everything that happens over here in the New World.
"I looked where he pointed, and trembled. For this was what I read:
"'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
'Fathers and mothers and boys and girls killed by accidents last year. . . .
'Injured, blinded, crippled, and maimed. . .'