Show K W f 5 ITS IV I 1 T H ff ay rabbit hunting A newspaper friend ot of mine has baa a real lve live boy in the family all real live boys pass pas a through a period when obett they hoy would rather be a bold nimrod than ihan president of a bank my ily friends boy has an exaggerated caso case and would rather be davy crockett Cro cliett than president al two T this h 1 a boax b 0 y a mother has hai al ways been terror stricken at the t li 0 11 thought ot of her h a r son eon having a gun but flesh la is only mortal and spirit ceases at last to withstand the nerves hence after having belen been tensed teased and im por par tuned four teen times a day during a period ot at five years yeara for a gun both parents gave up in sheer exhaustion and got the iho lad ad A iffla for christmas lita mother m cried some soine over it anti and linew knew ha be would be just as aa all arnoth era do and me iho father took tho the son aon out in the ho back yard and mado him swear across a baseball bit bat and a shinny club that ho would never never bo be careless with the gun that hat he be always would put it through a fence felico ahead of 0 him and never point it nt at ho he want to kill when it loaded oa e you see frank admonished tho the paternal ancestor it la Is just alen yoi yoa think it loaded that it la is and then somebody lau haa to pay funeral pi ox benses and so BO tho ilia boy promised and bogan boban to put eagle eye cyp tho the red scout tn the blink for shooting straight lie ito rigged up a leather feather in a tin can and gotso got ao accurate on the trigger that lie ho bite the ond end at 0 tho the feather off inch by inch a in a william toll tell and never touch tench the ho picture of tho the tomato on the can at all but why dont you shoot some rabbits for the table ached father at the first snow fall you know how we all like fresh rabbit ra bIt frank why dont you brou go out and do worth while of course couie it to IB dead easy for you to get gayari seven or eglit dosen rabbits tte th way you shoot but wo we dont wont want that many bring homs homa a half dozen that will all be plenty vaddy daddy admitted mhd ihal youth that night 1 I went hunting rabbits today to day but I 1 see any chyll ills 1110 eyesight continued to be had bad for several days it gannt a question ot of hitting lem ero it ii wag waa a qu question atton of at finding eni em finally boine migrating sportsman tipped tt it oft to frank where the rabbits lived theres about a million of eni em up tip there in the grass he told the lad ind and if you got get up early in tho the morning you will find them all at the hotel holet for breakfast that night when frank retired he set tho the alarm clock for four next nest morning father camo came irk in late from down town dead tired heard the clock strike midnight then he bo hoard heard it strike one after that ho he awoke and heard board it strike one again but he be know whether it was waa halt past one or half balf past three any more than the rest ot of us ua do when we hear tt it so go ho he turned over swore aptt ly and tried to go to sleep again just as we nil all do N tie lie had almost alinosi drifted into the em brace of 0 Morph oust when buol gungl ting a langl arr r rrt r r T rr r r dang 13 r r r arr r r rl wc nt that alarm in lu franks room then tho the father heard beard the clock gasp asp 9 like A chicken cli ieken when you choko choke it where it wears brads beads and he be knew that mother had bad flown to the rescue nut but the clock baitel and let out another string as long as nye ave cents worth of passe mother said real solemn like and stopped the squawk again for a minute oy by tho the time abe fh clock was choked into submission fattier athor and mother were both wide awake each tried triad to go to sleep again anti and neither could so they got up they had breakfast at 7 and dd the boy get any rabbits you ask why of course not when tha ahe alarm rang he ha grunted turned over in bed went to again and had to be called eleven times to keep him from being late to nut hut hea ben going to see some rabbits some day in tight right and then look out for rabbit stew at ills his house |