Show 1 Y TOM KITTEN Tom Torn Kitten Killen was ns a tiger kitten that that Ss Is s his coat coal watt was striped and very ven and and- I some but he did not think much about I that hat Just now for tor he was as young What Tom Kitten thought most moat of or was having fun I IOno Ono One day he saw something to chase chae It t ran right t across the yan yani and Tom Torn Kitten stopped chasing his tall tail and ran after aCter It i iOn On and on it ran and so so did Tom Kitten Kit Kit- ten en for ho lie was a vet very brave kitten But Jut then the strangest st thing happened The creature creaturo he was chasIng disappeared and it seemed to Tom Kitten that it went Into a branch of th the tree Ohl OhI there is a hole said wid Tom Torn Kitten that is where It went vent Ill I'll sit Bit here hero and watch and when I catch It I will take It t homo home and show It Il to mother I guess eu she he will vIll be surprised to find I can catch a big ra rat t all an alone Tom Kitten thought It was waB a rat he had lad chas chased but It was ns a squirrel and Johnnie y Gry had hed no Idea of or being caught at least not nat b by Tom Kitten Itten Bye Byc an and l bye be a a. bluebird flew fie Into the tree ree and seeing Tom Torn Kitten there them he thought of or course e. e he heas was as waiting to catch a n. bird Look at nt this fellow ellow mates railed called tho the bluebird lie Is waiting to catch us Let Letus Letus eI us fly Ily at nt hl him he i is little and cannot catch us W Well We'll U scare him s so SQ that when hen he grows frow up ho lie will not try tT- to catch us us They The picked at ot poor Tom Kitten and I v L he had to close his hi eyes ces to save roe them from rom the tho bills of the tho lie angry birds bird Of Ot Otur course ur e h lie could not tee see where he was walking and poor pOOl Tom rom 1 Kitten slipped sUpped and caught at nt the branches as In he tried to 10 get edt to the ground When Then he lie at lost last fell cli on the ground I at th the foot toot of or the tree Creo If Ir he had i l ot t tI bc beet n veT very quick the birds would have I picked him but ha ho was up on his feet reet quicker than a Q wink and nd ort oft he ran into some soFie b bushes s not far r away ne The birds I flew to t the bush but Tom Torn Kitten had courage by this time Ume stat atul h he stretched out outS a paw showing some lome sharp lookIng claws when one bIrd en isa- isa too near lila hIs hidIng place and the tha birds thought they better keep at a safe ule dIstance after all ih They chatt chattered r J and chirped at t him from the tho t trees cs around for a while and aM th then n they flow a away way and Tom tte poked poite out hl his hi head and looked about i Everything was still sUIl and arid he crept out from under tho the bush and started to ru home but to hIs hla surprise he saw W a art any number of or squirrels running around and w wiS when iS they the saw MW Tom I KItten n on one onA of or said There Thero he is I. there In is the that chased Johnnie Grey Now let Jet ui us chase him ho lie cant can't hurt u us u. Back went Tom Kitten und under r th the bu hush bush r ragain again as quick as us you can think Ju Jut l a as 3 S he ho was getting terribly frightened Tom Tore Kitten heard beard a noise that Bounded very verj much like the bark baric o 0 of Rover Rove the toe dor at t home and while ho he was thinking nt tb the be squirrels ran a. a 03 n. Tom Kitten had Md neY never neverseen seen een any anything thin run before and when a I see ond ond Ja later tel he looked out there was waa not a squirrel to be bo seen What t are you ou doing under tn them r r asked alike Rover Roer when be he ran up to Terni Torn Tom i Kitten and how now did you ou get et so far fr frein m home horneT he asked I iran ra ran after aCter a bl big rat with a bushy tall taU confessed Tom Kitten Oh oh laughed Rover D Dog that t t wasn't a rat It wa was a squirrel Didn't t. t you OU see them run when I came along Tom Kitten said be bo did and very glad he was to eee see them run too for lor th thy they y were going coin to chase himI him I I 1 thought you ou were chasing th them m ail saJi Rover Ro Do Dog I was chasing one ont said Rid Tom Torn Kitten but but when hen there are so BO 80 man many of ot them I could not chase all aU of them at ones one Well Yen come along with me then saM lad Rover foyer Dog I 1 bet you do not know which way to reach home Tom lom I Kitten itten conte confessed sed he did not net but he followed Rover Dog Do as he lie led Jed the tho way y Copyright 1914 by the McClure N paper r Syndicate K New w York City Tomorrows Tomorrow's story Tom story Tom Kitten Be- Be cornea cornu a Real Hunter S |