Show I Sleepy Time Tim Tales V WET ET FEET FEE Somehow Henrietta Hen never no noticed noticed noticed no- no that one of her brood was different different dif dif- dif ferent erent from the rest They were her first youngsters and they all looker looked beautiful to her Just s as s soon as Henrietta e began to f H ta take her e children f for strolls a about the farmyard she taught them a number of things She showed them now li to scratch In the dirt for food how to drink hy by raising their heads and letting letting let Jet ting the water trickle down their throats She bade them beware of hawks and hawks and of ot Miss luiss Kitty Cat too Ana Ano she was always them to keep their feet dry Waters Vaters good for nothing except to drink Henrietta informed her chicks Some strange people like old dog Spot jump right Into It And how they manage to keep well Is more than J I Ican Ican can understand Dust baths are tie the only safe ones So much J did she fear water t that Hen Henrietta d rietta am Hen wouldn't even let her chil thil- children dren walk In the grass until the sun flun had dried the morning dew And tIe the first sprinkle of ot rain was enough to send her scurrying for cover calling frantically to her chicks to hurry Now there was one of or Iier er family that always lagged behind wh when n the rain drops began to fall And If ten Henrietta had fairly to drive him away from puddle of or water She sometimes remarked with a sigh that he gave her more trouble than all the rest of her ber children together This was the youngster that Mrs Irs Hens Hen's nel neighbors told one another was different from his brothers and sisters But nut poor Henrietta Hen lien only knew knet that he was unusually hard to man man- age V VAs As her family grew bigger Henrietta Hen lIen took them on longer a ways casting cl a careful eye aloft nw and then lest some hawk should swoop down upon her darlings And no hawk tried to surprise her ber something some pome- thing happened one lay day that cave Henrietta Henrietta Hen PEn rietta almost as great reat fright ht as an any hawk could have caused her had strayed down by the duck- duck pond pond had had Henrietta and her children stopping here Were and there to scratch for some tidbit or to fl flatter In an Inviting dust heap Once thEY had reached the bank of the pond Henrietta began to wish she Rhe hadn't brought her farly In that direction For one of the youngsters young young- the liters the one that never would hurry In out of ot the rain raIn Insisted Insisted on toddling down to the waters water's edge away this Instant Henretta shrieked as soon as she noticed wh where re rehe ho he was as get your feet fett wet the first t thing I you know n She et never said l anything than that The words scarcely ou out of or her bill when the odd member of her family family fam tam ily flung himself Into the water Or Orto Orto Orto to be more exact he flung himself upon It for he lie floated on the surface as easily as a chip and began to paddle about at as If he ha J swum all his life Come back Come hack hakl Henrietta Hen nen shrieked be drowned drowned- and you'll get Iet your feet wet Copyright 1921 hv by v Metropolitan N Newspaper Service |