Show Little Stories for Bed Tune Time Bj By Thornton W. W Burgess FARMER BROWNS BROWN'S BOY IS TROUBLED Farmer Browns Brown's boy counted the eggs in his old straw hat and whistled Then he tie grew crew very sober and nd thoughtful Ho Holad had lad less than half halt as many eggs as he be had expected to got Jet that mornin Tho nests of or Mrs Topknot and nd Mrs Speckles and Mrs had been empty Could it be that they were laying their their eggs In some secret hiding place Ho He took look tho the eggs he had Into the house houe and thep came out and sat ant sat down down on the door doo door stepto think AI t their His Ills hens ought to be laying at best right now and yet he was getting fewer eggs than In the middle of or the win win- ter cr What could 1111 tho biddies Slowly ho got Jot up and walked back to the tho hen hen- house house Could It bo ho that some one was waa as stealing his eggs Hal Hat What was was that and Farmer Browns Brown boy stooped over picked up an ab empty eggshell Then ho found another and presently another A skunk or a weasel exclaimed l- l Farmer Browns Brown's boy and nd began to look very carefully over o the tho floor door of or the hen hen- house Presently he found a a footprint It was Jimmy Sl Skunks The freckled face of Farmer Browns Brown's boy lighted up with a aSo Grin So Its It's you ou is It Mr Mn Skunk said heWell he Well ell Ill I'll fix you youl Now Now- of or cour course c when Fanner Browns boy said this lie he knew nothing about the tho partnership of ot Skunk Possum Possum- Perhaps Ir If f ho did no ho wouldn't have b been en so o sure suro of axing Jimmy Skunk Fist First he hunt hunted until he found the hOlo w ero was wasn In n the habit of ot entering tho the henhouse Just In Inside this he he- set a ste steel 1 trap very carefully covering It 1St it over with straw so 80 that hat Jimmy would not see it There said lie he he I I guess gueS that that will got get him and started back for tor the house whistling The next morning he was out to the henhouse bright and carl early The rho trap was just where he had put It it but when he col col- the eggs he ho found fewer than Hum ever F Farmer armer umer Browns Brown's boy didn't know what to tomake tomake make of It IL Ho He hunted and t hunted for another hole through which Jimmy Skunk could have crept into the tho henhouse but found none Then he got gat another trap and set It outside the hole where theother theother the other trap was WM set No skunk kunk can get in there without getting caught In ono one trap or the other said aid he hei But the next morning he found the traps raps Just a aa as ho had placed th then them m but there here was WuI not as many man eG eggs aa as the day before Then for tor the time ho n noticed that there them were Yere no eggs gg In the upper nests while whilo ho he found round a 11 r few w in Sn th the tho lower nests A skunk slunk would take them out of the lower L nests nest but couldn't get et them from the upper n nests ts Farmer Browns Brown's boy sat down on ori the e end d of or the log and rested his chin In Sn his hands while he thou thought M. M What was becoming of or his eggs Who was stealing them Ha Hal He had an Idea hla He lie would sit Bit up all night and watch |