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Show I The Sandman Story FOR TONIGHT What Mrs. Puss Overheard; One morning Id Hi very early j springtime Mistress I'uss was sitting ( hidden under the steps of the home t where she lived, snii Mr. and Mrs. j Sparrow, safe out of her rnoh, perched . on a wlndnwslll. were chatting. "We re much safer behind the j blind." Bald r. Sparrow. '"A tree Is) easy for Huss lo climb, as well " I for thoe,roloer birds that take our eggs." "Oh, I am not nfrai.l of those robbers, rob-bers, if that Is wlV you do not want to move." said Mrl Kparrow. "Why. I can frighten any of them, away, I am . sure. 1 will Jut l,lc" out their eyes j If they come ner my nest." "That Is all very well for you to tell, my near," replied her husband, j "and 1 k'now you are a very brave; fiRhter. but we ire bi tter off behind the blind, where no one can find us." "I suppose you wunt someone to i open that blind some day this sum-1 mer and let our nest down on the . ground. Then Puss will have a fine j time and we will not be able to do: a thing." chattered his wife. All this as very Interesting to Mis- tress Puss, for she had been looking ; at plump Mrs. Sparrow and her husband hus-band for some time, and birds had been very scare, w ith Puss for quite a -wTil li'. I In the end Mm. Hparrow talked her husband over to her way of thinking, and one morning, to the delight ofc Puss, there was Mrs. Sparrow In an old nest left by some bird that had t gor.e south fur the cold-wreather. ! ) Mistress smiled as she looked j and she wondered if she had better, wait for the nel of young ones or take one of the old birds. Her longing for a nice breakfast got' the best of her, and caefully shej climbed the tree one morning, when little Mrs. riparrnw wus on the nest, and, though !here were no leaves to! hlile her. Puss managed to get very i close when sm-thlng happened. Kight over where Puss was erouih-Ing erouih-Ing was a dry limb, and Just as she was about to reach for poor little Mrs. Sparrow off broke the limb and down ' it came, bang! cn the head of Puss. I It stunned her so that when shej struck the ground there she lay for a ! minute, and when she got up she I stood looking in a dazed manner at the j tree, wondering what had struck her so hard; for, though she knew the; Sparrows were good little fighters, she could not think they had struck her such a blow. But Mrs. Fparrow hail been as frightened ss Puss, for the dead limn had brushed pant her. taking off a side I of tho nrat. and orr iIpw Mm, Spar-row Spar-row to her fnrmrr home behtml the! blind, whTt Mr. Hparrow was perched j on the blind catch, "I jruerts had better live hero for a while lowr. said hia wife in a meek voice. "11 is pretty chilly out there now, and besidea that, 1 think thati tree la falling; apart." I Mr. Sparrow wondered what had changed hia wife so suddenly. But I ho did not question her he whs only too glad to remain in their old home, safe behind the blind. But Mrs. Sorrow's move did some good, for Mistress J'usa did not go neur that tree all summer. IShe was I never sure what happened, but she I did not know that It was a very hard j bump she got, and aho did not forget it and so the birds that made their ( home that year in the tree were free' from her prowlings. j copyright, ik by the Meciure Nrwa-I Nrwa-I paper Syndicate, New York City. |