| Show t a sr TWO ORPHANS Me 10 One day Bab Rabbit was playing around the woods when he met Tom Kitten Where are you going asked Bab Rabbit for at first he thought Tom was one of his relatives ho he looked so much like his family Oh I am going to tox play I am an orphan and get a fiddle Then everyone everyone everyone every every- one will give me mice I expect Ill I'll get rich because I saw a hand organ man playing on the street and he got lots of pennies I r wonder if it I r could get some young radishes if I played too asked BabI BabI Bab I 1 should not care for mice you know Come alone with me I Tam am sure A I we can get lots of ot things said Tt Tom m Ki Kitten Off Orf they ran up to the farm fann over the hill hIlI and hanging in the barn they found an att old fiddle wits one string and a drum with a hole in it it We Ve will ha have ve to look poor and forsaken forsaken forsaken for for- if we want everyone to give us things said Tom Ill rn make a hole In my coat and you tear your stock stock- ing Oh such euch a sight as these these- two creatures creatures creatures crea crea- tures were when a little later they went along the road playing the old fiddle and the drum And oh such sucha a noise as they made too you ou never can think But the mice or the radishes did not come as they thought Instead they made such bad music that all the cats in threw tin cans after atter them and by nighttime they were two very hungry and tired little fellows We might try your woods said sald Tom lom My family does not seem to toi i like our music But when It Is 13 a 0 little littie little lit lit- tle tie dark they might like Ulce it in Wood Wood- ville So off to Woodville they trotted and under the treo tree where ere Mr Owl lived they began their music When Mr Owl heard the terrible noise outside he ducked under the clothes and hid for what was after atter him he could not thinK But after a a. while as nothing happened happened happened hap hap- but the tIle noise Mr Owl poked out his head and then got up But instead of getting a out of the right side lido of his bed as he first started to todo todo do do he got out this time on the wrong side which made him very cross He ran to the window and threw It up with a bang and Tom Kitten and Bab Rabbit were sure this time they were to get a mouse or a a. radish Each Bach held up his hat and said Pity two poor orphans and give us some some- thing Ill give you something said Mr Owl for he was cross when he went to the window but when he saw who It was he was crosser than ever ver Mr Owl did not walt wait to dress He lie flew right out of the window Just as ashe ashe ashe he wa was In his night cap and slippers and down he pounced upon tae two orphans or or- He lie carried them up to his window and there is no knowing what would have happened if the window had been large enough for Mr Owl and Tom Kitten and Bab Rabbit to get through I all at once but it wasn't and Mr I Owl thinking Tom Kitten was a rabI rabbit rabbit rab rab- I bit and could not get away sat at him I down on a limb of the tho tree until he I could put flab Dab Rabbit inside j N j sooner did lie he let go of Tom Kitten than away he h-a went down the i I tree trpe and off at his best running speed I i Old Mr Owl was so surprised that he dropped poor Bab Rabbit and the moss undo under the tree was thick and so when he ho struck It t Bab Rabbit jumped up pretty quick and ran hip hip- perty leap away from around Mr Owls Owl's home Tom Kitten and Bab Dab Rabbit had a a. avery avery very ery hard time explaining how they tore their clothes and to punish them their mothers made them stav stay in bed bedall bedall bedall all the next dav dat and you may be be sure r I that neither of them ever er again w f. f to play orphans |
