Show I Little Stories for Bed T Ti Time I I By BT W. W I DRUMMER THE WOODPECKER 1 i DRUMS IN VAIN j 01 Ol Buzzard looking do down n tl fr from ml mj tho tire blue blue sky where ho was s 9 sailing i round and round could see Reddy Fo Fox limning away from Bowser Dowser the Hound He could see too that Redd Reddy I- I Fox ox yr fill growing more and and more careless In Instead Instead In- In stead of ot minting where here he was going he hs kept turning around t to td laugh at Bowser Bowser Bow ser ger the Hound 01 Ol 1 Buzz Buzzard rd had sh shaken ken hi his bl bald head and said to himself that Reddy Fox surely would get In tro trouble right z smart soon You see ce ee 01 Ol 1 Bu Bus Buz- could look right down anI and u sea that trouble waiting for lor Reddy Fox It was aa waiting behind an old tree trunk and It looked looked to to ol 01 Buzzard very like a gun Jun But Reddy Fox didn't know anything about this Once upon POri a a. time before he be j had h grown tp to think himself so ver very ry r smart mart Reddy would have b be been en n ver very very- suspicious o of that told old tre tree trunk But now all Reddy COU could d think of was What a splendid chance h he Ol nad to show shon all the little meadow and forest people how very bold and smart Im rl he was So Reddy Redd sat cat at down and waited until Bowser tile the Hound W was 15 almost to him Just then Drummer the Woodpecker bean began hegan be he- gan an to make a n. tremendous noise rat noise rat s ta tat tat-tat-a-tat-tat t-ln t tat t tnt rat tat rat l a Now everyone who WIlO heard that knew that It was a a. danger signal Drummer the Woodpecker doesn't t drum that w way 8 y for fun But Redd Reddy Fox didn't pay M any ant attention His Ills foolish little head hoad was wasso wasso Wall Wallo so o full of his hie own smartness that It tt had hafl no room for tor anything else Stupid thing grumbled Tumbled Drummer the Woodpecker to himself I I dont don't knoK what I am trying to warn him for fori anyway any any- WR way The Green Meadows and the Green Forest would be better off oct with with- clout Reddy Fox anyway Nobody him He Ifo Is all the time tr trying to catchy catchi 0 ol or scare t to death those who ho are are arc smaller amle m than he Still SUII he lie Is so 50 n Drummer the tho Woodpecker cocked cockro hi his his' head on one side and looked on over o r ati at q Reddy Fox who was laughing as hit watched Bo Bowser thc tho Hound working so 0 hard to untangle his lii trail Yes sir lr 5 i Reddy Fox certainly Is handsome sat ald Drummer once more Then he ho looked down to the tho root of the th-e old tree trunk on which he was sitting and what L be saw sa there caused Drummer to make up 4 his hiA mind C CI I J sure surety surely would miss mss seeing that ha handsome hand hand- 1 l. l some red coat of at Reddy Foxs I 1 suret surely v t would If It he docent doesn't hear mo me now and andy take heed It wont won't be my fault 1 Drummer And then he lie began such luch sucha a furious drumming on the old tree trun trunk that It rang through tho the Green Greeb Fore and out over the Green Meadows almost to tho the Purple Hills i Down at the foot Coot of or the old tree truna trun trunk a freckled faced bo boy boy- looked hooked up and scowled 4 ft What ails nils that pesky woodpecker If It Ithe he dont don't keep still he heJI JI car care that fox muttered the freckled faced b b. b n and d he shook a fist at Drummer the Woodpecker ir t tIt f fIt It was l Farmer armer Browns Brown's boy 3 |