Show AN AMERICAN FABLE showing ilow how arlus thern the jill all around CLAM tut till BOY AND TRE THE OWL in order to make this table tale take on a bustness bustnes 11 look we rive give the date us As 1860 10 instead of ct saying once upon a time lime andee anil we locate the place on the coast of new jersey instead 0 of leaving tile redder reader to inter infer that it might have been somewhere along the aed sea i 1 A boy who had been rent pent down to the seashore to gather clams and pay off tho the interest on tho the mot mortgage gage it lich aning lung like A funeral u pall over ilia mothers mot bera cott cottano itao decided to try an experiment getting his bis eye on a fat and juley juicy clam which was ing to see fee which way the wind blew bla the lad called out ah there my clam but I 1 heard a faler acl ier abusing you thia morning who was itasker it tile tho clam as tho the popped up her hend bead the turtle lie wa making all manner of fun of you on oil account rc recount count of the shortness of your legs lie Ile declared that boxi you could not walk five fire feet on the beach it if you tried ever so hard bard I 1 defended yo you d of course saying baying that you could walk a mile it you wished and now to prove that I 1 wa right I 1 should like lika to see bee youl you aay dear boy interrupted luten tho the clam 1 I 1 am glad that you yon defended me but boti were in the wrong As aa ft a matter of tact fact I 1 cant walk a toot foot and I 1 have never claimed to be able to besides I 1 know all about that mortgage mort KaKe and you look clam benr alry this moral mo 11 II the boy was feeling te fUn chagrined and out of sorts with himself ho he had been done up by a clam when tin an owl in a bush bash lard hard whispered by to him dont rive eive up that way but ask about her wings dy by the way salt said the boy as lie he worked his toca into the wet sand 1 I hear bear that the gulls are becoming jealous of you its no wonder however when I 1 saw the graceful way in which you sailed about the other day I 1 expected you would be an object of c envy adv and jealousy tv you like me to sail sal ashore lashore just about now sarcastically chuckled the clam as she flood on oil her head bead for a change CHAPTER III ashes an old un whispered the owl but try her again well you need neither wings nor legs to take the cake over anything ou on this coast observed the boy as he bried a pebble into the tho water such eyes such a mouth amouta such anch a complexion as you have knock lem cm all out and put you at the head bead of the groces bion are they talking about my mouth asked the clam exhibiting sudden interest you bet and it Is agreed that suchs sucu another pair of oyes eyes cant be found in the state and thea that cute little dimple in your cunning little thin chin and they praise my eyes you ought to hear em cm falkl balki ive been asked over 40 times about your teeth but as I 1 never cover got near enough to lee them plainly P I 1 and they praise my they do and it if you would only come ashore and let me see them I 1 should esteem it a great condescension on your part why certainly and while you are about it you might observe olia ervo what a dainty hand and jaunty janety toot foot I 1 have I 1 have never st t up for a beauty but being the matter nothing except that you ore are my clamile replied rep lied the boy ns its ho he tossed tier her into his basket arid cast his hill eyes around for or another MOCAL you yon see aee said the owl as le he looked benignly ill down upon the boy that all of us have our weak points aud and flattery if carried far enough is bound to lo fetch the coun coon down from his top ruth limb 11 al M |