Show STORY rj by THORNTON W BURGESS THE OWL DIS COVERS WHAT IS GOING ON to 1 I 1 11 a 0 to I 1 what may a hungry fellow do dot S SO 0 booty tile the owl as lie waited for tile black shadows to creep out from the afflis it was just tile the hour when always la Is hungry you see aee he had bad had nothing to ent eat since just before dall dati light glit that morning and then it had ad heon been a mere beto a 4 fireless nr eless little mouse all day booty had bad slept in the top of his favorite tree in the lonos oniest part of tile the green forest now ile he ana wide awake and waiting only for mr air sun to po go to lied bed tatting taking with allm lila fits children the jolly little biln you sec BOC booty the owl does doea not like them ahey try to blind him ahey 1 hey never ducet ed ad for though many pepla don dout t think Q 0 now ho was wide awake sid a adwalt wait ing only for mr sun to go G to bed no flo booty can see aee very well I 1 indeed n deed in daytime but the ilia idak dask I 1 Is easier on oil hla his big bici and so he walts waits until then to do hla his hunting now one of the first places booty visits every night Is the smiling pool lad had tie he had a mind to booty could tell dark stories of ahling i which have happened in the stalling pool strange disappear ances among the little people who ilia there at least they were ere strange to all but booty the 11 la Is in or around the smiling pool booty has found many a good din ner ncr in his bla own peculiar cc ullar uny ft ay booty la Is clever ile ho lg Is very clever indeed you know klow 1 how low le he 1 1 filea HE without in aling a sound for f 0 r all the like a drifting shadow atut with walh nil all ills hla cle venitHa booty never had been able to cited itch jirry muskrat lie had tried cri enough ough gool nesi knows lver since jerry was mas big enough to leme leave ills hla mother and even before had tried and tried to catch jerry dig aa lie he waited united for tile the chane to tile the ilak shadows was th inting of jerry and wondering aily ly it was lie he had seen sl en hlin him so BO seldom during the enst sui bummer limer iho 1110 reason nag aa that having no houge in the Sn knilling illing pool arry hal bal ilva in fits cartle in the bank of the laughing brook had not knain tills at last it wes dark enough to suit him film and on silent allent aings sailed out from the ho orcen forest straight for ill the a 8 smiling pool As lie he drew near lie saw right away that tile the water was waa quite muddy and that tant it was murdiest muddiest mud diest tiena a certain place placa beyond tile the big kocic was waa lute interested rested lie ile turned so as to sall over the big rock a and nd then hen saw that conw thing was going iiii ii underneath I 1 lor or just nn instant jerrys head appeared ahat wag wnm enough chuckling softly froony turned back tile the green areen forast 11 I 1 know what a going on he 1 I know going on iles ite a building a new house hy by and ly it mill be above voter lie ile will bo be so busy bugy building lie may forgot to watch out it if lie ho does docs I 1 am j the fellow who wants N ants to be around just let liln hlin once forget when I 1 am nhoun end he will have rio ino inre use for a new house now til stay awny from tile the biffl ing I 1 1001 ool for a few it won oa t ID do to hive him film see we me about 0 1933 by ayt T W burso bervic |