Show tue Ilie Sandman Story I IFOR L FOR TONIGHT IT i Peggie Runs A Away ay ay j PART II I While was cr crying he ho heard someone n nearby orby and he was sure It Ita was wan a someone to let him out ont so ho I said Here Her I t am In hero here I cant can't I get over ver the top lop of ot tho the fence How did jou ou get pet In there asked a vole volet and Pi o looked up to 10 s see lee e Mr Fo Fox looking down at him Oh Mr Fox did mother send lend you ou 7 ask asked d for he had bad seen Mr Fox before man many inan times When Mr Fox ox heard all about how Piggie le had run way and how nice Mrs Ira Bear had fed Ced him and that cho she promised to for Cor three days h he h began belan to laugh Dont you ou want some some- more mor nice porridge he asked d. d yes but I want to see Ice my mother moth moth- er Cr and anti then thon Ill I'll como come right back If U UI I can pet get away said sahl Piggie Dont ou know that Mr and Mrs Boar Bear cat cM fat little asked Mr l Fox ox Pis-gle Pis began bet to cry very OT hard now nov for tor now ho knew why Mrs ts B Bear ar had been feeding him hInt to so well ell Hush Hugh lr if you jou Ou want me to help you ou said Mr Fox lox who had thought of or a pl plan n to rescue Piggie also to find out something that he had been puzzled over the night before stopped d crying and Mr Fox Fo leaped over the tho fence and stood with his hind f feet et on tho the ground while he placed his front paws on tho the fance and told toM he up UI his back to the top o of tho the fence fonce When hen this was done over leaped Mr Fox on oti the tho other side and took 1 off ort tho the fence and told him to 1 follow Collow him Soon they were out In tn the tho road and very ery soon oon after Piggie saw the gate of the tho barnyard ho started to toI I crawl 1 under It Walt WaiL said Mr Ir Fox I ha have helped you yot OU to repay my kindness Como Come around back of tho the barn where the poultry sleep trotted after him for tor he did wish to do to repay repa kind Mr Ir Fox for tor saving his life lICe I want to reach the window ow I you see in the poultry home said Mr Fox Pox but I am not quite sure those green reen boughs will hold me I 1 am afraid arald the they are over a hole hote but you ou aro ro so much smaller Pig Pig- gb Sic gic I am sure you ou will not nol mind stepping on them and looking to too toc tee o c If sr the they are arc on the ground or orIf orIf orif If there thore really Is a 0 hole under them that I ml might ht rail fall Into Inlo Pi Piggie JIa gladly did as ho he was as asked but h ho had taken only two or Ot three steps when something went Click and Mr Ir Fox ran while poor squealed for or a a. trap held him b by one ono foot oot That was Just juat what Mr- Mr r. r Fox thought w was s there to catch him and ho wanted to find out He did not nol stop to help poor but instead ho sl addled for tor homo home as fast as he could go so Tho The farmer hearing squeals came out and released him but PIS' PIS oB foot was so badly badly badly bad bad- ly hurt hurl that ho w was s lamo lame the rest of or his Ufo UCo and never could run runabout runabout about aboul as his brothers did did and everyone who saw him knew he was the tho little pig who ran away and did not mind his mother Copyright 1920 by tho the McClure Newspaper Syndicate New York City |