Show Farmer Browns Brown's Boy Is Puzzled II By Thornton W. W Burgess Farmer Farmel Brown Browns boy wa was w whistling men II merrily as h he tramp tramped d down across the Green Grep Meadows 1 fh The rhe Merry err LIttle I Breezes saw hIm him and I they raced aced over o to the Smiling Pool Fool to tell Bill Billy Mink Farmer Browns Brown's boy was going to 0 visit his trape He Ho wits was very sure that t. he would rind fluid Billy Mink or ai Little LittleJoe Joe o Otter tt I 1 or Jerry y Muskrat or ot perhaps Bobby Coon Coca Mink lInk was wu on top of or the Big Rock hock lie He saw w the tho Merry Ien- Ien Little Breezes racing across I the Green Mead Mead- own owa and behind them hn he saw Farmer Farm r Browns Brown's boy Billy Mink dived head d first firs Inlo into the Smiling Pool Then hf he swam swan ovi ON oi r to Jerry ry lu Muskrats Muskrat's krat house am and id warned Jerry Together they bunted up J Little Jon Jos Otter and then the threw three lit little U the tle scamps In brown hid In the where the they could watch Farmer Browns Brown's bo boy Tho The first place Farmer Brown Browns bo boy 00 visited was 8 Jerry Muskrats Muskrat's old log Very ery cautiously he pe peeped ped over the edge of tho the bank The Tho trap was wu gone gonel onet Hurrah shouted Farmer Browns Brown's bO boy 00 lie was as Ver very much excited ai as he caught hold of th the end of th the chain which fastened it to the old Jo og op Hn lIe was sure euro that at lat last ho lie had caught Jerry Muskrat When he hI pulled the the- trap up It was empty Between the JAWS were a- a afeW feW fe hl hairs n and a a. little bit of ot skin akin which J rry Jt-rry rn Muskrat had left there when ho the trap with his tall tail Farmer Brown Bro bo boy was disappointed Well Welt Ill I'll get Ret him tomorrow anyway said eaid he lle to himself himself- Then he went on onto onto onto to his next trap it was wan nowhere t to be he seen When he pulled the th chain he was II DO sp excited that he trembled The trap did not up at at- once He H pulled and nd pulled and then suddenly up It came all 11 covered with mud In it wa was one little dan claw from Joe Ott Otter r. r Very Verj carefully Farmer Fanner Browns Brown's boy set sel t the a trap rap again If It ho he could have looked hooked over ter overn in In n th the and anI have hav I se seen n Little Joe Toe Otter and Billy Mink and Bud Jerry Mu Musk Musk- Muskrat krat k- k rat watching him and tickling and nd laughIng laugh laugh- Ing ne h he would not have been ao so ure sure that t next time he lie would catch Little Joe Joo Otter All 11 around the Smiling Pool and then up UI and down the Lau Laughing Brook Farmer FarmAr Farm Farm- er tr Browns Brown's boy tramped and each trap he ie found sprung apron and burled buried in the mud Ho Ie had stopped by this time and there theN was a a. puzzled frown on his hili freckled r rac face What did It mean Could some other boy have found all hl his traps trap and ind played a trick b by all an of them The flie more be he thought about it the he more mon puzzled h he h. became You LOU see aee ho did not kno know an anything anything- about the busy bUllY da day the Minks Mink and s-nd the Otters and the he Muskrats and the Coons Coon a had spent the da day before i Old Grandfather Fr Frog g. g sitting on hi his bi bip jre green reen n smoothed down hl his hi I white and yellow waistcoat and winked I up at Jolly round rod roo Mr Bun un as Farmer Farm er Browns Brown's boy 00 tramped off ott across acron the Green Meadows Meadow said Grandfather Fro Frog Frol ns as he snapped up a 1 foolish h green STeen fly ly n Much lunch Rood good it viii III do you ou to set act those traps Then Grandfather Frog Froc called to tn Dill Bill nilly Mink and sent Int him to toll tehi all the other oilier little people of the he SmIlIng Pool th the tho IAu Laughing Brook ook that the they must hury hurn and spring all th the hue traps tr again os 03 is they hc lund This time titTle it It was WIlC Va easy euy because the knew jut Just where UIA tr Were so o O. O nil all allday da day Ion long lone they dropped ropp flick and und stones into tho the traps one once m more r and sprung them th m. m Then rhen Wy they prepared for COI a 3 grand Krand feat rP-allt of or tho the good things to cat At which Farmer Browns Brown's boy had lund left led scattered I around the traps |