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Show TTIF. LITTLE SOX FINDS QUEER FISLLOW BY THOItNTON Bl IH.Fss j Ju keep this fact in mind, my dear. "Tls you who makes your neighbor queer. , OLD MOTHER NATURE It was so very different along th Laughing Brook from th" Old Pasture Pas-ture and the Or. n Bleadowa that the I four young Fox'.s visiting It for the ' fir.t time found co rn;:rh 1o se thu' ) they couldn't keep still. The runninK water of the Liughinir Brook was s continual wonder to them. They were a little afraid of ii. yet the .-..uldn t forget thnt both Eteddy 'j .-nd .Mr-Hfddy .Mr-Hfddy had told irn-m that at tlmnj U might prove to be their best frb n ! They ran about thin n.iv and thai I way. looking ot everything and sniffing- at everything that was m-w to them, rtnee Croaker the Green Frog was discovered by ono of the young1 Kox-s. He called the othnrs. "Com" here'" he cried. ' Mere Is the funniest funni-est looking Toad you ever hie seen His ront Is all smooth and It Is jjreen, I instead of brown. Let's make him ! bop." The other little Foxes hurried ovet to see the queer Toad. The) had seen fome or old Mr Toat'i family severe, sev-ere, times, and ii hud always tickled them to maket he Toads hop. Onre one of them had ak-n a Toad Into h's mouth, but he didn't do it a second time. You b-ee old ...r Toad anj the members of his family have a most unpleasant liquid vihtrh they an pour out in tiny drops through) the skin, and this leaves a most un-i Pe asant taste in thr- mouth of one J who catches thrn It was some time before thnt little Fox got rid of that unple.-u-ant taste So after that whec the young Foxes found a Toad they imply teased him Just to see him J make his little, funny, short hops. That is wMiat thi planned t.. do with this queer grcen- oated fellow.! The one who had found h!-n reached a hub- black p.iw forward to touch1 him. hut the green-coated Toad didn t wait to be touched. He suddenly sud-denly h aped an ' it wjib sin h u surprisingly sur-prisingly long Imp that the four young Foxes received one of tb' greatest surprise of their short Uv.-.h. Before they could oven exclaim he made another long and disap peared head fir, with a little splash t, t h- Laughing Itroo Then the four little Foxes raced to the edge of the Laughing Brook to see hat had become of him. Ho wasn't to be Fecn. No sir, he wasn't to he -oen. Me h td gone str.ilght to the bottom nnl httTle'd himself in tiio - N ' . HLTasi Before ihcj coold over czcialm he made anotht r long leap and dlMip-peared dlMip-peared bead flral with a Utile splooh In the IjucIiI'ik HrooK I mud Roddy Fox who had seen the whol' p rformance. chuckled as he 'saw the puzzled look on the faces of 1 has four excited children. "What are you looking at?" he asked as he walked over to where they were ex-Cltedly ex-Cltedly running bnk and f-)rth along the bsnk and marlns down Into the I water. "It was .i funny Toad," cried one ilttb Pox, "and he Jumped right into the water And now we can t see him anywhere " ' You won't see him unless you have a great deal of patience and wait a very long time."' said Itcddy ' And that wasn't a Toad at ll. I! was u cousin of the Toads It was Croaker Hi ;;..'i l r"-. and he i (U.t- a much at home in the watf-r a on the land. If you could Jump as far for youi n!ze as he can for his sdze yo would be one of te best jumpers in all the Great VYorld. Frogs are very good eating when (here Is nothing better. If you can catch them. They do not leave that unpleasant taste In your mouth that the Toads do." "Ill catch the next one 1 see, declared de-clared a little Fox 'Perhaps, a i!d Ueddy, and grinned. "Vou'll hiv to be smarter rh.in you've shown yourself 10 be yet." "Why haven't we se-ri a log before?' be-fore?' inquired another little Fox. "Because this is the first time you have bfen near tho water and you will seldom find Croaker more than two or three Jumps fr"om the water.", explained Rcddy. So the young Koxes learned the difference dif-ference between the Toads and their cousins, the Frogs. fCopyrlght. 1922. by T W. Burgess 1 The next story. "An Adventure (Tear the Laughins Brook." |