| Show CHICKEN LITTLES LITTLE'S SAIL c Chicken Littles Little's mother was not fe feeling well vell and andaU all aU day she had sat sal under the currant bush with her little near by that by-that that is al albut all allbut allbut but Chicken Little lie He only came near when his mother gave a warning cluck Chicken Little had long had in hi his little head the wish to go on the duck pond with Johnnie Duck who had told him how much fun it was to swim I about but his mother who had a horror horror horror hor hor- of all water that was riot not in adish a adish dish kept her eyes ees well upon him scup so sc soup I up to this time Chicken Little had never seen the least bit of a chance chanc I to run away Today though he was thinking and watching too for he felt very sure his mother would fall into a a. doze She Sh usually did when she was feeling ill and then ho thought he be could run rut rundown rundown down to the pond and find Johnnie Johnnic Duck Just as Chicken Little th thought thOught thOught-hl his mother closed her eyes and down went her head and off ran Chicken Little Littleto to the pond He could see Johnnie Duck out on ot the pond and he tried to make him see him but Johnnie Johnnic Duck was trying to catch something on the pond and dUd did not see him I There is a a. big black stone that is i inice nice and flat said Chicken Little Ill step on that and wave my wings perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps Johnnie will see me then So up on the flat black stone he hopped and began to wave his wings and before he knew what was happen happen- happening happening ing lug he found he was aw away y from the edge of the pond with the water between between be be- tween en him and the ground The flat black stone seemed to be carrying Chicken thicken Little away from the land He looked down and saw two little feet on either side of th the flat black stone paddling along and Johnnie Duck saw Raw him He came up UI to Chicken Little as fast fasi as he could swim looking very much surprised and then he looked at the thing Chicken Little was was standing on Jump quick on my ba back k he cried to Chicken Little and Chicken Little Jumped Jumped- What is the matter he asked That stone atone was safe sate It W was s floating right along along I I think it had feet Yes I guess it did said Johnnie Duck That was a turtle and the first thing you would have known he would have gone to the bottom of this pond and left you In the water I Would he asked Chicken Little I have sailed about the way you ou do d if he had I I I 1 should say not answered Johnnie i Duck Mother told me this morning it I I was not to talk to you any more more about going swimming you are a different dif dlf- erent ferent sort of family it seems and do donot not qt go into the water at all aill lt though how Ow you are ar to live all your life and not ot go Into the water I cannot understand under under- stand All this time Johnnie Duck was sailIng sail sail- sail sail-I Ing ng about with Chicken Little on his his' back ack and not at all that the lucks ducks on the pond had stopped swimming swimming swim swim- ming ning to look at them All the hens and turkeys from tram the barnyard too had run down to the luck duck pond to see the strange sight When they reached the shore Chicken Chick Chick- m en n Littles Little's mother Was vas there to meet tim him The fright she had received I when then she heard he was out on the pond ond qt te drove away her sick feeling I All the hens hells were trying to console her er You know his grandfather was wasi wasa a i duck said old black hen You must mst expect this trait to crop rop out I somewhere in the family Oh but he will be oe drowned he is isa a chicken even If his grandfather was wasa a duck cried Chicken Littles Little's mother I No I 1 wont won't said Chicken Little I I I didn't even get my iny feet wet mother 80 o dont don't cry any more I tint Rut l H H. had l lost control over hers hersOn n and ofte after that thai went sailing on the pond on the o of his friend Johnnie Duck while his poor mother stood on the bank and cried to think she should have a chick that did such strange things But after he grew too large for Johnnie Duck to carry about Chicken Little who grew to be a a. rooster stayed right at home In the barn barnyard ard and took good care of his family You see Chicken Little turned out all right after all said his mother one day to Mrs Brown Hen who had hada a new brood of chicks and was wa telling her troubles to old Mrs Hen No other ev ever ever r had such a time as I 1 did with Chicken Little when he was grow- grow ng ig up but now you see how dignified dignified fied fled he is and how well mannered mannered- which goes to show my dear Mrs Brown Drown Hen you ou never can tell by the chicken what sort of a rooster he will wUl grow to be b Copyright C 1918 by the McClure News News- per Syndicate New York City |
