Show I I t r HOW JERRY FOX W WAS S TRACKED I Jerry Fox and Tim Coon had a a. nice pl place e in the woods where they had built their homes No ro one had been able to track them or or find out where they hid each day And every every night they went over the hill bill to the farms around and helped themselves to the poultry until the farmers were in despair of ot ever getting rid of them But one night Tim Coon grew too bold and jumped in the window of the poultry house though Mr 1 1 Fox ox had warned him not to do so for Mr Fox Thad had looked in that very window one day and had seen a trap There are other things besides the hens and ducks that are kept in that place he told Tim Coon There is a trap for forone one thing and many strange looking pails palls and cans I would not go in if I were in your place Tim I But Tim Coon had seen a he chicken very much wanted and as there was no way to get it but to go in in he went but he jumped well into the house and did not land under the window where the trap was supposed to be Whether the trap was there he never knew for he hit something and over oer It I came giving him a thump and then thenn I Tim Coon felt all wet and n sticky He had not thought of getting out when he jumped and the window looked very high from the floor But Just then he saw a streak of ot light and found a hole large lare enough for him to crawl through I Oh T i am killed I know I am he said as he crawled out to where Jerry Fox was waiting for him And then I in the moonlight he saw that he was covered with something red Jerry Fox saw it too and thought just as Tim did that did that he was hurt and bleeding bleeding and away ran Jerry Fox as fast as he could over the fields and hill leaving poor Tim to die for all ho he cared But Tim Coon was not hurt at all What had happened was that he had tipped over a big pail of red paint paint and and while h ho he was a a. sorry looking sight he ha was not in the least hurt Tim Coon soon soon discovered discovered this and then he became very angry indeed at the way Jerry Fox had run off oft and left him when he thought he was hurt Ill pay that fellow tellow back he said in in a way he will little dream of Of course course Tim Coon was covered I with the red paint and it dripped as he heran heran heran ran and he ran straight to the home of Jerry Fox Pox and rolled In his yard and andon andon andon on his steps Jerry l Fox ox of course being sound asleep in his bed by this time When he had enough of ot the paint off ot Of him so he could not be bs trailed he heI hid behind a big clump of bushes and waited for daylight I He Ha did not have to wait long andas andas and andas as soon as it was light Mr Dog and Mr Man came into the woods tracking the red paint right to the door of or Jerry Foxs Fox's home Mr Dog barked and jumped about when he got right up to the door and Tim Coon felt rather nervous although he knew he was safe sate Jerry Fox awoke with a jump and it did not take him a second to get out put of bed and jump out of the window and run Mr Dog saw him and fter him he went It was very late that day when Jerry Fox dragged himself home with a alame Jame lame leg where Mr Dog almost caught him an f t you may be sure Tim Coon was not far awa away Where have you been all this time he asked from his doorstep where he I sat smoking his pipe Oh I have been on a little run formy formy for formy my health replied Mr 11 Fox Oh I thought it was your our life lite you was wal running for said Tim Coon I happened to be he coming home just as you were starting on that run this morning Mr MI Fox did not answer Tim Coo Coon but he looked at the steps of his house and t thought ought a good deal Copyright 1919 1911 by the McClure Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate New York City calmly adopted the mode In in which America will scarcely agree Autumn hats are to be of hatters' hatters plush panne panno velvet and silk The chin-chin chin sailor with topped oval-topped crown and r regular gular brim trimmed with l' l rat t tall braid is promised great pop pop- Goque Coque feathers are arc very good this year used on hats ts in wide at collars collars col col- col- col lars In boas Paris still clings to the fur manteau and cape The capes Sire are re velvet lined to prevent slipping from the shoulders Gray squirrel is as fashionable as ever very ever very smart when made into a manteau or scar scarf and lined with black satin For young oung girls the girls the of school age the smartest costume for autumn frocks are developed in gay Scotch plaids worn with black satin sashes and with small frilled tuckers and sleeve puffs of ot fine white muslin The same plaids are used as linings for forthe forthe I the heavy coats and m of dull dull- hued woolen materials dun I |