Show Little Stories for Bed Time L 87 J W. W Burs 4 J GRANNY FOX TELLS A WRONG STORY By Thornton W W. Burgess Old Granny Fox was as thinking hard vcr very hard Indeed There lay Iny Prickly Porky the tho Porcupine taking a sun bath right across the tho doorway of ot the old oldhouse oldhouse house louse In which Granny had left Reddy Fox and Granny wanted to get In to see eec If It Reddy WAS safe cafe but she he didn't dare step over Prickly Porky You see ace Granny Fox ox has hu the greater r respect for Prickly Porky and the thousand little spears hidden In his long coat She had seen Bowser the Hound who i is la afraid of very few things turn toil tall and run away from rom Prickly Porky Perky and sho aho had no mind to go where Bowser the Hound did not dare to go So old Granny Cranny Fox sat eat down clown at nt a n. safe eafe I distance and tried to appear as aa if It eho she was veI very ery glad indeed to see Prickly Porky All the time she nhe was thinking and thinkIng think think- ing lug how she could get Prickly Porky away from tho the old house She Sho rem remembered ern bored what a great appetite Prickly P Porky rk has and how he ho had rather e eat tt than do anything else Ive found SOpe splendid poplar tree trees back sack In the Green Forest In a place you have havo n never ver beon been to said Grann Granny Fox You don't dont r say eay so eo exclaimed Prickly Pork Porky pretending to be ver very much Inter ested Yes Yet I do replied d Granny Grann Fox Fo I 1 know you'll youl enjoy the bark baric and Ill I'll bevery be bevery bevery very glad to show you where the they are Prickly Porky yawned yawned- He knew perfectly per per- wen well that Granny Fox had found nothing of ot the tho kind and was Just trying to get him a away ay from the old house There was U a twinkle In his usually dull dun little eyes a au 3 he replied Im lm much obliged abUsed to to you jou ou Granny Cranny Fox but my stomach is full Ju Just t. t now and Im I'm not the least bit hungry not the tiniest bit The face of ot Granny Grann Fox fell tell but she he tried not to I ho show It Dont you ou think it I Is very vary un unsafe afe to take a nap out Iut har here BO fiO o far from the treo trees trees' y You u know you jou OU cannot run fast tast enough to get away If It danger comes come this wa way 2 said ald Grann Granny Pooh r replied Prickly Porky Im not afraid Didn't you jou OU see ee Bowser the Hound run away a few minutes minute ago Prickly Porky rattled his thousand lIttie lit little little lit lit- tle tie spears as he spoke and Granny Fox shivered when sh she heard beard them though she tried not Inot to toOf toOf toOf to- to Of cour course e youre you're not afraid of ot Bow Bow- ser sor or the thEs Hound replied ll Granny Fox 1 but listen n Bowser has gone to 10 get Farmer Browns Brown's bo boy boj and ho hs has got a agun agun agun gun Prickly Porky sat at up and took notice Vie lie ie had m met t Farmer BrownS Brown boy 00 once S S. S SC I before and had lud not be been n hurt but h ha a was not sure sur that Farmer Browns Brown's bo boy hoj- would bf be so 80 good natured d ery e time How flow do you jou Ou know 2 he demanded I hI saw him And mind Farmer Browns Brown's boy Is on ou his way up h here re right now replied Granny Grann Fox TON 1 I Just then a a. dark shadow swept over them and a voice olce which seem seemed d to coma right out of at the sky said I Your l eYel eyesight ht I Is falling yo o 0 Granny Grant Fox It rt I Is falling tuns o 0 h h have been watching Farmer Browns Brown's bo boy and rind hes he's on his way home hom this ver very I I minute Old Granny Fox showed ho d all her hel teeth and shook her fist nat at t 01 OI Buzzard I who waa wa-a already climbing up up In Into to the blue ky sky again while Prickly Porky laughed right out loud and once j stretched himself out comfortably on or n the doorstep of C th the tho old house |