Show Little Stories for Bed Time Tim Times L 21 By lh s W. W Bun MB I. I GRANNY FOX MAKES A 5 MISTAKE Old Granny Fpx was running through the overgrown o pasture way up back backof backor of or Fal Drowns Browns She She- ho was WIlS cross and tired and h hot t for tacit w H a avery Very nry warm day Behind her came camo Bowser th too the Hound hIs ils nose In Granny GrannYs s tracks and making 0 o. great noise with his hla big voice oleo Granny was cross because bho was tired I She hadn't dono done much latel lately She Site didn't mind running when tho the weather weather wea- wea ther her was cold but now now Oh Oh dear It Is La hot sighed old Granny Fo FoX as she stopped stowed a a. minute to rest Now Isow old Granny Fox H is very very smart and V very r very wise She knows all aU tho the tricks with which foxes fool Cool those who ho try to c catch them them- She Sho know knew that she he could fool Bowser the Hound and puzzle him so that ho he wouldn't be able to o follow her track at ot all aU But BUl she wasn't ready rend to do that yet No Indeed Old Granny Fox wa taking great reat care to see sea that her tracks were easy casy to fol- fol low ow Sho She wanted Bowser the Hound to follow them although It made mado her tired and hot and cross cross- crossWhy Why did she Well Wall you vou see she sli was trying Hying to lead him and with him Farmer Browns Brown's boy far far away from Cram the home home wh rc lc Keddy Reddy Fox was nursing the wounds that he had re received received re- re when Farmer Browns Brown's boy had shot at him a fe few Ce days before Bow wow wow roared Bowser the Hound following every er twist and turn lurn which Granny Fox 0 mad mado just as she wanted him to lo Back and forth across the old pasture and wa way up amonS among amon the rocks on the tha edge of or the mountain Granny Fox l led lcd d Bowser the Hound It was wasa was a a. long lon long Va way from the Green Meadows and tho the Green For For- est esl Granny Grann Fox had made It a long wa way purposely She Sho was as willing to be tired herself if It she chic he could ul also O tire lire Bowser 1 the Hound and Farmer Browns Brown's box bov boShe She wanted to tire them so 0 that when she finally puzzled and fooled Cooled thorn them and left lett them there they would be too tired d to togo togo togo go back to the Green l I Meadows By B and by b Granny Grann Fox ox came to o a ahole ahole hole vole In the tho ground an old house that had lad once belonged belonS' to her hei grandfather Now this old house had a Q back door hidden close b beside the hollow trunk of or ofa ofa a a. fallen Callen tree treo Old Granny Fox Just ran through through- the house out the back door through the hollow ollow tree and end then Jumped Into nto a little brook where the c was hardly more more than than enough water to to wet wether wether wether her feet teet Walking in tho the water she left lett no scent in her tracks Bowser the Hound came cam roaring roaring- up jip to the he front door of oC the old house Grannys Granny's tracks racks led right Inside and Bowser grew grewo so o excited that he made a R tremendous noise At last hast he had found whom whom-c re I Grann Granny Fox at lived at least he thought he 10 ha hail had lie He was sure that she was was- In Inside inside in- in In-I In side for or there then were her fresh h tracks going so go go gong Ing ng Inside In and amid none coming coining out nUt owe I D r I. I di J h dir Y r 1 t f 11 t it V l. l 1 k r I dl I the he Hound n novel e I one one- thought of oC loot look In- In n for a a. back door If H he hall had hadjie he would ouid not lot have b bl been en nn any the i r e. e you on OU Know 01 old Fox had slipped a awn away wa through the hollow lw tree trunk Granny lox ro gi as she shi listened to time the he terrible fuss lisa Dowser Bowser was making Then when she he had hod rest rested d a 11 little one he she could look lookdown stoic Mole up on th the hill bill where down clown and see th tb entrance to tin old deserted house She watched td Dowser Bowser digging dig dig- ging gIni and und After a while white a worried worrie look crept ept Into the he fate face o of old oil Granny Grann Fox Foz Whores Wheres Farmer Parmer Drowns Browns boy boyf I r thou thought ht surely he would follow Bowser the he Hound n e muttered |