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Show I THE SANDMAN 1 STORIES Mr. Fox Is Unhappy Part II If Mr. Fox hsd gone to tbe meeting held by the animals to decids what ahould ba dona about the raMa made by Mr. Dog upon their pantry stores he would not have been unhappy. But ha did not go. He stayed at home and laughed about It. thinking they would none of them dare go near Mr. Dog. or try to attack him, thinking he was Mr. Dog. This was not the plan thst the snl-msls snl-msls Isld not st all; they decided to ask the help of Mr. Wolf, who lived a long dletsnce away from the woods snd wss not afraid of anything not even Mr. Dog. I "We will carry him a great bl basket of food.'" ssld Mr. Possum. "Mr. Wolf will gladly help ua. J am aurs. Wo can drag It to him on a sled snd bring him hark on the sled If hs objects ob-jects to coming down from hi home this cold weather." Ho thst night when the moon wss shining off they went with the basket on a aled. and auch a funny procession proces-sion ss thev were Mr. t'oon and Mr. Possum tugging st tbe rope fastened lo thSTled and Mr. Htulrrel and Mr. Babbit nushlnai behind. Mr. Wolf waa sound ssleep when thev srrived. H scrambled out of bed snd csme to the door with a candle high above hie head looking rather cross at being routed out of a nice warm had. When he eaw the aled and tha great biff basket he changed his cross look to a broad smile snd listened lis-tened to whst th snlmsls had to say. "Of course I'll help you." he said, when they told their troubles to him. "Just let ms put swsy this bsaket you brought and I'll he ready In a Jiffy, and you needn't carry me." It happened that Mr. Kox hsd come ouf that right to play hla trick again and asw the anlmala going along with the sled. "They are moving." thought Mr Fax. "Well. I gueaa thev have left enough food to last me through the winter, so whv should I care?" Ife had fsllen asleep sfter hs hsd finished the chicken snd the next thing he knew In bounced Vr. Poe-sum Poe-sum snd Mr. Coon, but Mr. Fox wss not sfraid. He jumped up and began to hark snd chsse them. Put everything chsnged In a mln-ue. mln-ue. It seemed to Mr. Kox. for the next thing he saw waa the fierce face of Mr. Wolf and the next thing he felt was the bte of Mr. Wolfs sharp teeth right on the nape of his neck. "Oh!" cried Mr. Fox. who knew that the rame was un. "don't let him kill a neighbor. Mr. Possum, who wss Juat playing a little joke on you. It la I, Mr Fox: don't you aee It la?" Mr. Wolf dropped him snd ell the snlmsls stood around snd looked st Mr. Fox ss he lay on the floor look-4nr look-4nr very unhsopv. "He greased himself so he would look more like Mr. Dog." anld Mr. Coon. "You sre a nice neighbor; I guess vou'd better ce"rv him off; we don't want him. Mr. Wolf." The door wss open, snd before Mr. Wolf could k the ethers If thev sgreed with Mr. Coon, Mr. Fox wss up and away he ran for home. Put he waa unhappr the rest of his dsys, hecsuse he could not rnnvlnce his neighbors hat he wss Just playing play-ing a little Joke and because they would not believe h Intended to bring hsck sll the food In good time. Copyright. ISM. by ihe gc""l'ire Newspaper News-paper Syndicate, New York City.) |