Show TIME SLEEPY TAL TALE vt v f. f t THE TALE TALE TALE-Q Off j N NIMBLE J BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAilE BAUD VII THE VII THE STRANGE LIGHT j Weeks went By ly and aId still Nimfa mother said no more mote about visiting J mer Greens Green's carrot patch Nimble hI self did not dare darc to mention nIt n. n It was his own fault that the tie had b ben been n postponed And much astill as as' sU still wanted to taste of carrots the wl wt affair was something he didn't care talk about Anyhow it was lucky that he lii water lilies HIles For his mother took h him the lake behind Blue mountain eV night almost And there they in the shallows and ate all they want l Most 1 of those nights were much alj But there was one that Nimble re rem for many a day afterward fl It was vias not a dark darl night neither was wai wasa a light one It was a half and of night There was a moon But ia it far from full And it was not high ig the tho sky The light from it came sla Ing log down upon the lake throwing shadows of the trees far tar out upon wa water ter m Where those shadow shadows reached darkly Nimble and his m mother ther stood stood s 's the water lapping their sleek bodies they were eating so busily that nelt neil of them noticed a blurred shape i t glided slowly nearer and nearer to t th without making the slightest sound All at once a shaft of dazzling lf swept along the shore Nimble wa was wasl surprised and puzzled that he sto stop eating to stand still and gaze at it But only for tor a a. moment Instantly mother flung her tail upward so sOl soil the under side of ot it gleamed white 1 in the half halt And that that that-as as NiD knew right well that well that was the da signal f Almost before NI Nimble ble knew kne what happening his mother made to fo for shore As she plunged through the waher wa waher waher her tail tall still aloft twitched from sid side S Nimble needed no urging to folio they scrambled dripping out of the theto I Ito to dive headlong into the cover of overhanging willows l lIn In those few tew seconds tho the light thi day swiftly toward them But It was quite quick enough Only the ripples where they had been standing Only gently waving branches of the wll wil showed where Nimble and his mother onlY vanished W WA A noise like tilte a thunder clap crai crat upon Nimble's ears and rolled and bled in the distance tossed from fromM mountain to the hills across the the I and back again It frightened Ni Ni Nin much more than did the odd whistle whined just above his head a mon mo before the thunder peal IR Never had he run so fast before N had his mother set such a pace fort Usually when startled she stopped torm going a short distance and looked 1 to get a glimpse of ot whoever or wh what tJ had alarmed her To be sure she alv stopped in a good place like the ed Cedar swamp where she could duck of ot sight if need be But this time Nimble's mother raw and on without pausing you jou OU forgotten her son gasped after atter awhile JM I Forgotten something What do mean she asked I jL you jou ou forgotten to stop stop- ble inquired g A queer look came over her face I I declare she said I do bellev have run all night if yOU hadn't me S She fell tell into a walk And nei of ot them said another word until reached the swamp which one of mothers mother's favorite hiding places Vt 1 Nimble spoke again I wa waved ed my flag too he said pio pio I Copyright 1922 by Metropolitan l paper Service |