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Show Little Stories (or Bed Tune By Thornton W. Burgees UXC BILLY POSSUM IS A PRISONER Mah home Is In a holler tree. It's a long way home! It's a long way horn: Ah wish All's there, but here Ah be: It's a long way horn! If Ah haa only ben eontnt, steal of out on mtsohlaf ant. Ah'd have no reason to repent. It a long way horn! Vac auly Possum, kept saving this over and over again to himself aa he lay curld up under th hay tn th last nest of th tap row In the darkest corner In Fsrmer Brown's henhouse. L'nc' Billy didn't dare go to sleep because h wss afraid that Farmer Brown's boy might rind htm. And anyway, h wanted to see Just what Far-mar Far-mar Brown's hoy was doing. go,eptng out of th last nest of th top row In the darkest corner of Farmer Brown's henhouse. hen-house. Unc" Billy Possum watched Farmer Far-mer Brown's boy, who seemed to b vary, vary busy. Indeed What do you think he w$a doing? L'nc' Billy knew. Ts, sir; t'ho' Btny kaw Just what Farmer Browne hoy was doing. He was setting trap. In.:' Billy's eyes twinkled aa he watched Farmer Brown's boy. for Unc' Billy knw that those traps wsr being set for him. and now that he knew Just where each one was. of course, he waan't a bit afraid. It seemed to Unc' Billy that It waa Just the funniest kind of s Jok to be wstchlng Farmer Brown's boy set those trap while all th time Fsrmer Brown's boy thought he waa hiding them so clvrty that th only war they would be found would be by son on stepping Into one and getting get-ting caaght. "Ther.'' said Farmer Brown's boy. as he set th laat trap. "I'd Ilk t ss anything any-thing get Into this haahous now without sen Ins caught' Unc Billy almost chuckled aloud. Ts. sir. h almost chuckled aloud. It was such a funny loss that Farmer Brown's boy should hsve tsken sll the trouble to sat those traps to eaten I'm- Bttry trying to get Into th henhouse, whan all th time he was already In there. Unc' Billy Isughed under his breath as Farmer Brown's boy closed th door of th henhoue snd went off whistling. "Ho. ho, ho! Ha. ha, ha! He, h Uoe' Billy broke off short right in th very mlddl of his Isugh. He had Just thought of something snd It wasn't funny at all. With all those traps sat st vrv opening open-ing to th henhouse no one could get In without ret tine oaught: and, of course, no on who was in could gt out without cetttns caught! Th Joke wasn't on Farmer Brown's nor. after all; it waa on TJnc' Billy Possum. Pos-sum. But Unc' Billy couldn't see that It was aay Joke at ao. Unc' Billy was s prisoner, a prtaoar In Farmer Brown's henhoti, and h didn't know how ever he was coin, to set out nf there "It's a long way bom." said Unc' Billy mournfully aa ha peepel out of a crack towards tn Green Forest. |