Show alk BEDTIME STORY ay W THE HOME GOING OF JOHNNY CHUCK CHUCK UCK had made up hla his JOHNNY mind to go bock back to bli old home in the far corner of the old orchard yes sir johnny dolinny was as no longer ol of lie ile dlan t care ft hat polly chuck might say any hunger and ad quite cured film or of ull all y lie he want ed to get back where here the gross grain was cool and clean and sn sweet acet ind and v where here lie need hardly more than leave his ft ael plenty to eat cat so ko johnny johnns shtick had made up 41 its about tit time no you came home was all she said ills his mind to go bark back homo homa the one double waa nas that he coul coulden couldn dint t decide alien hen to start lou ou see it was a long lovig long way puck home at tiny any late it mas as a ion IOD way may for johnny chuck though s yu u ind I 1 mould have tho thought nothing of it in case of sudden danger along the way there was no place in which to bide there would be nothing for it but to run or light fight johnny feel that lie he could do either lie he was thinking of milking making it a journey I 1 certainly would mould start right after noon Illi nill grunted johnny chuck and that waa all could get out of him now johnny knew that there was vias no other time of day or night when so few are out and about as aa during the middle the hot test part of the day vie more lie he thought it over the better Sami nys idaa seemed and so it came about that fit at noon of unit that very day johnny chuck started back for the old he me in the far corner of the old orchard now though he alda t know it sammy jay waa watching ng to see it if lie he would la fco and sammy followed along behind taking care not to show himself sammy a eyes twin bied as aa lie he wat lied johnny limp along stopping every few steps to pant or to get just a t ait it of clover rhe flie taft fat fa t Is banaay was waa keeping watch and had the least sign of danger appeared lie he would have warned johnny chucle instantly bit no danger did appear and slowly johnny clinch chuck made husway ills way toward the far corner of the old or chard As lie he diew near he began to wonder ft hat polly chuck would mould sa won would slie she be ba glad to see him back A little distance away he be sat up nim watched matched the en enhance tiance to his home lie ile wished polly folly N would come out perhaps if slie she did and saw him filin blie could speak first that would make it easier So somehow Lachow now that he ha was as almost there lie he hated to go til th rest of the way it 1 vad I ad too muth much like giving in johnnys obstinacy was begin beginning Ang to rise again an and d lust then sammy jay icren screamed mod ile he serea af pf reamed rued just as lie he does when lie he sees reddy I 1 ox 0 creeping up on someone johnny forgot lavit he was stiff and laone and sore lie ile for got enci eeik thing but that there just before him was N as horne home and safety ile he stiff and lame and sore from his fight with reddy heddy rox fox S si johnny was as in a had bad ili fix lie van hungry very augry yot feared to go far enough from his house to get enough to eat he wanted to go back to hla his home and polly chuck yet feared to make the jour ney iney perhaps sammy jay guessed what was in hla his mind for sammy suddenly denly offered some good advice I 1 if I 1 were in your place said sammy 1 I would start for hoa home about noon who said anything about going home growled johnny chuck 1 I did chuckled sammy as good natu a q if johnny chuck hada t groveled grovr led at all noon to Is the best time for you to start I 1 its too hot then grumbled johnny I 1 its safer than any other time retorted sammy you know ar or ought to know that reddy I 1 and sirs birs rox fox find and old man blan coa coyote ote usually are resting then dower the hound I 1 ure aure to be napping if I 1 were scrambled down his long hall and half way down he met poll pol chuck lits its about time you came home was waa all she said As for sammy jay he flew oft to the green grcen forest fat to kill himself b uis 1933 by T W burawa |