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Show MR. FOX ALMOST DROWNS PART I Mr. Fox had bn thinking for a long i time that If ha had a boat he could go duck hunting a grat deal letter than ha could without on. Ho on morning when his wife got up to get breakfast he haard pounding outside out-side th door. "What In tha world ara you doing?' aha aaked. "There Isn't a mouthful of food In th houa but a Httla meal, and there you ar out there wasting your tlm." "You will chang yo ir mind, my dear, about that when 1 tell you my acheme. I but firet make aom muah for hreakfaet out of the meal, and by dinner tlm per- j hapa I ahal) b ftniahed and w will hav a Plenty," aald Mr. Kox. Mr a. Kox tiad tkcen married long enough to know that th beat way to get tha whole atory from her huahand waa to feed htm. Ho ah went to work to make , juat th flneat taatlng muah ah could ' and then caJled him to eat It. Mr a Fox poured a cup of cream on the muah aha put la. front of Mr. Fox, and aaked: - "What ta thia acheme you hava and what are you building?" "I am building a boat, my dear." aald Mr. Fox. "and 1 expect to h able to bring horn a fin lot of btrda. beoaua the very heat I could do tha old way waa to hrln home two Urda at a time, and now I n catch them and put them In the hoat. ' Don't you sea, my dear, how aaay It will be?" Hum,"yaald Mra. Fox. "1 hear you. But for a long time I have not acen very many birds, even on at a time. You will hava to show ma before I behave In your new j acheme. Hut I will tMl you one thing, i that you gat dandelions for dinner, and no mra I. If you do not get thoaa bird a." j "I'll hav them; nevrr fear, my dear," tsatd Mr. Fox. Hut when dinner time came h had not flnlahad the boat, and had to at tha dandellona. "You will not get any mora of theae. Uher," aatd Mra. Fox. with a frown, "if got In. Ha could ee th ducka thick around th bend and he had via ion of at Iraat five fat birda for hla dlnnar. But Mr. Fox waa not used to a boat and ha forgot to make any oar a, so whan ha was In h had no way to at ear It. A brie': wind came up. however and sent him out In th middle of th lake, and th a scared th ducka and away they went. f our Mr. Fox. He could not fat back ami he could not catch a duck. Tha boat wohblcd about a the wind made tha water chippy and ha began to be elck. "Oh. dear. I know I ahall dial" he thought aa h lay down In th boat. "Oh, tuu. I am a raid I won't dl," h thought .vfter awhile, for ha waa ao alck he did not want to 11 v. . Juat then ha haard a quacking near him and h opened hi eye. There, right b-Ide b-Ide hi boat, war thra fat ducka. Mr. Fox closed hla eye and groand. It made him 111 to think of eating a duck, and down he want agraln on th bottom of tha boat. AU day long h floated about on the i lake, not caring a bit whether he waa drowned or not. It waa almost dark when Mr. Fox real-Ised real-Ised that tha boat had at op pad, and ha sat up to a wher h waa. Th boat had caught In th overhanging overhang-ing bougha of a tra by tha shore, ad Mr. Fox crawled out mor dead thn aliv. He lay right down on th ground, gtnd to t anywhere but In that boat. Mr. Fox crept under th buehea out of eight and went to aleep. but It happnd that th wind blew hla boat ao that It tipped over, and Jack Rabbit, who waa paaalng by. aaw It, and having mat Mr. Fox that vary morning before h started, he waa sur Mr. Fox must hav been drowned. Off ran Jack Rabbit to tell Mrs Fox that ha had found Mr. Fox' boat upald down on the hank and ha waa aura Mr. Fox had bean drowned. Than off through the wood a to apread th nwa ha ran. (Continued tomorrow.) (Copyright, llt. by th McCtur Newspaper News-paper Syndicate, Nw York City.) you do not pick them yourself. 1 am not mng to work In the hot sun Dirking dandellona dan-dellona while you build a boat to carry out eome foollah acheme of yours." The nest jtatrnlng the boat waa ready and Mr. Koa waa pretty hunarry. for his wife kept her word and he had no aupper and no breakfaet, either. Mr. Fos had an old coat and hat ha had taken from the erarecrow up at Mr. Man's and ha felt ha waa all ready to hunt, but hla wife had no faith In hi. schema and aha called from tha doorway as Mr. Fos want toward the leke: No dinner If you do not bring It! Remember!" Mr. Fox put hla boat In the water and |