Show I I i I V V t 1 1 t 1 f V 1 A DAYS READZNG FOR ALL rl RE s FEAST Contemporary Thought AND EACH ARTICLE I I OF GOOD THINGS T WELL WORTHY of PERUSAL J Il 5WNn I < Jh < r r t tJIII > l > > J j r t > u r d 0 t II f II I I IJ A Tragedy of Trout Stream his long I A big brown and white bird came sailing up the trout stream wings jrtrelchoil far out to right and left He flew slowly for he was looking for something that he wanted very much He was doing the family V I marketing Up In the top of a big pine tree a mile away his wife was sitting on a nest full of eggs and it was both his duty and his pleasure I to find a cupper for her Suddenly he stopped short lie had caught Bight searching dusky shadowy shape with an of the thing for which ho was V outline like that of a submarine torpedo boat lying moveless in the clearwater I clear-water For just an instant ho seemed to hang poised In thealr but it was I only long enough to chance the direction of his motion then V down he went 1 with a rush and a swoon V The brook trout saw him coming and tried to dart away but it wag too lat J With a rnlrhty splash the osprey struck tho stream and went clear under and out of sight while the water boiled and surged over him TIe could not see for the commotion about him but his aim had been true and his outstretched out-stretched feet touched a slippery slimy wriggling body that was Just beginning begin-ning to gather headway Quicker than a wink his toes closed about It and his sharp talons sank I deep Into the trouts flesh Then up he came rising out of the streamlike I uomo fabled monster of old and shaking the water from his feathers in a Bhoivor of flying drops Every thread of muscle In his wings and breast was working with all its might to lift up that heavy trout Up went tho birds great pinions till they were straight above him then down they came lashing th air like vhps Up again and down up and down up and down harder and faster and fiercer and little by little he and his victim lose abovo the plreani till at Inst they were clear of the treetops Then straight away to the I nest In the old Dine where the wife was waiting to make them both wel in Leslies Monthly I come WP D Ilulbert I I |