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Show SNAPPY MOUSE , ; "I shan't do it!' aaid Snappy Mouse. "1 am ftolim tn jcet that plee t cheem. Vou want to frighten me. nd when I run away you will ho oi and get It yourself. You let me alone! I am an bin aa you ure." "Mill you are not as old as 1 am. said his brother. Nibble, "and 1 tell i yu tliai piece, uf Ujft eOa u trap. I and If you try to fet it your h;ed be cauKht." I Hut Snappy Mouse did not helteve ihia brother. He was a very cna little lit-tle fellow when he could hot have hia own way, and that wan the reaaun he was named Snappy. "He will be caught, " said Nibblo to himself " must run and get mother. He won't mind me." Off ran Nibble for hie mother, and . no sooner was he out of sight than out lfrnm behind a box where he was look- ing at the cheese ran Snappy. I Right up to the trap he went, but, having never seen a trap, -of course he i would not let them think I was frightened," aald Snappy to himself when he wan alone, "but I shall not get caught In that funny little box. Now 1 know what It is. and if I am pot mistaken 1'iib will not come near the pantry for a while, ao I shall liave a very nice time." And off ha ran to eat anything he could find excepting the rheeae In the funny little box. (Copyright, 19Tt. by the MeOlure Newspaper News-paper Hyndicate, New York Cltyj. lug .lust as Hues sprang at Snappy, and had been too frightened tu move.' l guesa you found nut that I told ; I you the truth about that cheeae." aaid j Nibble, as hi ton aa they were all, safe ; in the wall. "How you escaped being ; cmiKht by !usa 1a more than 1 know." j lt la nil very plain to me," aald Snaurpy. "an4. 1 found out tUal you or ! mother do not know a thing about It. That was a trap to catch Puss with. lHdn't you see what happened lo her j when she tried to get me? , "The people In this house are very .kind, not crud; they waift to protect 1 us mid at a Map for 1'usa. not for ua. j ThoiiKh Just w hy they put the cheese ' in the funny little bog I am not quite aure " I "Well, nf all the silly children I ever j heard of" gasped his mother. "He thinkn the trap waa to catch i'uaa." "He will find nut all about It. moth-I moth-I er," said Nibble, "the first time he trtea ', to get that cheese, and that will be I the only way he will te taught anything; any-thing; he thinks he la ao smart." "I shall not go near It again, for I know now tt ia aet for Pubs," aaid Snappy, "but I am quit aure it would not hurt me. I am ao small I could , run out of one iff the h"ea on the other side " "It ia no use; we r annnt frighten him or teach him anything." said hia m"th-r did not know what it waa. "Kunny little box." he said, stopping In front of the hole where the c h e was hanging from a little wire, look-ins: look-ins: very tempting. "I shall eat this cheese and not touch the food on the ah-)f. I gues that it la the reuson (hey put It here. They1 know we must have something to eat. and they do not like tu have us eat their food." All this time Snappy ,tn feeling lie watt very wlHe, and aa he felt aure of having all the cheese he wanted he waa in no hurry, but he did not -- two bright eyes looking at him from the ! doorway. Jf he had he Would not have gone around the funny little box again and turned his hack- on the dowi of the pantry. Snappy never could tHI just but happened, whethiar he poked his rme near the cheese or whether he waw i pushed on his none. Anyway, he re-i re-i memlrerd his head setting a hard bump and then he heard a low rrv of "Me-ow" but by that time Snappy i was at the other corner of the puntiy ' behind a barrel. I A terrible racket wa gdng on and j Snappy very carefully pwpMt out from j behind the bnrrel. mid such a aivbt as , met his eyes' There was I 'lias With j one paw caught in a hide of the funny j little box and Jumping about like a , ! mad creature. , ! "I g'leyjt I better get In the Wall," j j thought Snappv. fo he niade a flash j ' and tumliled Nibble Hitd bif mother ' over on their backs as he t.in in the ' 1 hr,t f-r thev bad nrrfved :;f e -r- |