Show The Sandman Story i FOR TONIGHT I. I Miss School I One morning Mrs Fox said to her hert t husband Miss Rabbit hasa has has' hasI them a very nice school She teaches such nice manners I think I will send 1 I little Reddy to her for he Is getting setting old enough to learn how to behave Very well wen my dear said Mr Fox I But I do not want that young fellow tellow spoiled spotted Why yesterday esterday when he was out with me he actually tried to catch a chicken He lIe is a smart youngster Takes after his pa I think replied Mrs Perhaps he does r Fox Bue he needs teaching and Miss I am sure Is the oneto one oneto oneto to do it And so little Reddy Fox was sent to Miss 1 school to toI learn polite manners I Miss dally daily taught them how to behave at the table and sn she taught them how to approach a garden garden garden gar gar- den filled with nice green things and how to hide under a bed of cabbage but not a thing did she teach about I catching ducks or chickens In Tn fact tact she did teach per her er scholars not to Jump in the parth of ot a hen or I duck ducle when they were out walking 1 I with their families You must never be rude she told them Always be bo polite and stepaside stepaside step stepaside aside to let others pass pass I All this did little Reddy Fox learn and never a thing did his parents know about it only that he no longer I and grabbed for tor things at the table ate his food without dropping it Fox awoke to But one morning Mr the fact tact that Reddy Fox was quite ducK or hen or grown up and not one even a chicken had he ever caught taught something some some- ething It is time were you said his ra ta- ta I thins thing besides manners 1 ther Today you will come with meto me meto meto i to leads that to watch by the path how the duck pond We e will see we i much you have learned at Miss Flop- Flop ears' ears school Mr Fox hid himself and Re Reddy y F Fox and waited for tor behind some bushes to children Madam Duck DucIc and her come along for tor their morning swim they Now said Mr Fox here cando can what you come Now let me see do Mr Fox got back o out t of ot the way w to do anthe all an to let his son have a chance I the catching but what was his his surprise surprise sur sur- bushes the prise when out from politely saId saw 1 stepped Reddy and very vry I hope n Pe Good morning Madam ouch Duck you have had a tine fine swim Madam and ana away Quack went whole she waddled followed followed- by her tamn Fox who thought family while Mr had this thIs' was some new way Reddy school been taught at nt Miss the capture expected to see his son cap finest duckling of the lot tobe to tobe But Reddy Fox had been t taught be bo polite and not chase the anImals he met so he calmly walked back and lay do down n beside his father In the bushes i Mr Fox was too astonished to chase Madam Duck He just took Reddy Fox by the car ear and walked him ham home A fine tine son we ve have madam he said saidI to his wife and now that Miss Flop- Flop ears has taught our son to be polite Ill I'll see if It I can teach him to get his living Every night he took Reddy Fox over the hill to the farm to hunt and somehow Reddy did not think about being polite at night at all and be before before be- be I fore tore long Ions he could bring home as fat fata a duck or turkey as his father No son of ot mine shall ever go to Miss 1 school said Mr Fox Cox She may be able to teach those garden truck methods to the Rabbit I family but a Fox needs only to see afat a afat Ilat fat turkey or duck or hen to know what to do Nature Is the best teach teach- er No more schools for tor our sons Madam Fox Copyright 1919 by the McClure Newspaper News- News fl paper p Syndicate ate New York City |