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Show Lltie Stones for Bed Time ! - - - i ft Taomtom W. Borgass. DAUNT MBADOOW MOUSE RE-MEMBVHB RE-MEMBVHB AND BEDDY FOX rOBOETS. (Copyright, 1U. br J. O. Lloytl.t Thra Jia goe,!' cried old Orsijny tPox. "Im't let lilrn sit atllt agsln.";- "1 her him:" nhont-tt Keddy Kox, "a,nl plunired flow n Into the anow Jut a llranny hal dona a minute bafore. But im didn't catch anything, and whan ha had blown tha snow out of his noae and wiped it- out of his eyea ha aaw Granny Kox diva Inlo tha snow with no be tier lurk. "Never mlud." saJd Granny Fos, "at long sa we keep hitn running can Itaar htm, and sotna una of these time wall tatrh him. Ha ll get too tired to ba so spry prutty euun, and when ha Is ' Urauny dtdn'l finish, but Reddy Kox grinned, tha llrkwl his chops and smacked his 11 pa. Then ones more thsy took turns diving Into tha snow. And down undurnth. In tire little tun-nela tun-nela ha had built. Lntvnny Meadow Mouaa was running for his Ufa. 11a waa getting get-ting tire!, JupI s old Ursnny Vox had aald ha would. Ha was almost out of bresth. . 1U was sore sad on leg amarted, for Iji one of tier Jumpa old Urwnny had to nearly i-aught ntm thai her claws I tad torn hla pants and scratched him. "On. dear! Uu. dear! Jf I only had time to think:' panted Danny Meadow Mouee, and then ia -aquaaled In atill greater fright aa Reddy - crashed down Into his tunnel sight St- hla vary liaala. "1 va got -to get auMiewhsre,! I've got1 to gL tMmawheis. wlu-ra they can't get at! me!" hs adVefl. ' And eight that vary) tnatsnt ha reinsmbored ths old fence poet. ThS old fnca poat lay on ths ground! snd ww IkjIIow. Faetaned to It wart 1 long wires with sharp, cruel barbs, i Iianny had made s tunnel ovsr to that, oltl fence poat the vary flret day after the arvow came, for In that hollow In ths old fencs post he had a saoret store of seds. why hadn't hs thought of It before? It must have bean because hs was ivo frightened to think. - ttut he had remain re-main be red now. and ha dodged Into the tunnel fhai led to the old fence pei. runnlirg faster than ever, fin though his heart was Id his mouth from fear, in ha heart waa hope, and hope 1 a wonder ful thin. I Now. old Granny Fox knew all abotu that ed fenoa poat, and aha remenbered all about IIkntS barbed wires fastened to it. Although thvy Were - covered With rinow. she knew )uat about where they i lay, and JuM befure she reacliesl them i she stunned plunging down Into the snow. I KeUdj box knew about thoas wires, too. I but lit was so excited that he forgot alt about them. "Htop!" or led old;Oranny "A sharply. Hut Heddv Kox didn't hear, or if he heard he didn't heed. Hla sharp ears re 11 Id hear fan ny M eado w M ouse run nlng almost underneath him. Orannr t'ux could slop ir aha wanted to, but hs was going to Itavs Ihtnny Meadow Mouse fr hla breakfast. Down into the atiow hs plunged as hard" as ever he could. "tth! oh! Mow: Uh. dear! Oh, dear!" . , . p Thst wasn't the voice of Imnny Meadow Moone. Oil, mv. no It was Hie voice of Kedily Fox.. Yes, sir. It wss the voles of Keddy Kox. He hud landed wltu one of 4ila black pawa right on nn if tlroae sharp wire barbs, end It did luiit dreadfully. "I never did know a young Fox 'who rould gt Into an much trouble as you can'" unapped old Granny Kox sa Keddy hobbled along on three lege behind her acmes the enow rovsred green meadow . "It serves you rjlfcht for forgetting." "Yes'm." said Aeddy meekly. . And, safe ui ths hollow of the old fencs post, Danny kleadow Mouse was dreaslns the scratch on hla leg mads by ths claw of old Oranny Kox. |