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Show AARY GRAHAM. BONNER. END OF ROAD Bubby had been taking a walk with his sister. They had a most interest- ing walk. It was quiet through the country, coun-try, as It was August, and in August most of the birds are molting and there Is little singing to be heard. They do not sing when they are molting. They had found a thirsty little dog trying to get I near the fountain i t In the square In I Over the Top. , .,, . I the village. Bub by had held his hands so they would carry the water down to the dog on the ground below. He could do it very well, so that only a little of the water was spilled. The dog really succeeded in cooling his thirsty throat and his dry tongue. The dog had lapped it up so delightedly de-lightedly and had thanked in his own special way. You know a dog says "Please" with his eyes and "thank you" with hia tall. ' They had seen many bees and crickets and insects and grasshoppers, and they had seen two woodchucks sitting up outside their holes. They had found an old road leading lead-ing up a hill, 'way out In the country. It was off the main roads and a little distance away from the hill most people took when they went In this direction. "Let's see where the road leads," Bubby suggested. "Yes, that will be fun," said Bub-by's. Bub-by's. sister, whose name was Jane. "It may not lead anywhere," she added. "But a road must lead somewhere," said Bubby. "It has got to lead somewhere." some-where." So they went on and on, their shoes getting very dusty, but it was fun Just the same. They went over the top of the hill on the funny old -road which was filled with ruts and which looked as though it were hardly ever used. Then along the top they walked until finally the road ended. It led off into nothing more than a thicket. "Well," laughed Bubby, "I said that the road must lead somewhere. "And this is the 'where.' "It wasn't a road to lead anywhere very important, but this is somewhere in the world, anyway." 'Let's go exploring in the thicket," said Jane. So they went exploring and they found all sorts of interesting flowers that were in the thicket, and just beyond be-yond was a pond which they found to be filled with ajl sorts of funny little fishes They jtound a-stone all marked with fan-shaped markings a big and very handsome stone, and they found something some-thing that looked like an arrow head. Then they saw a funny old straw hat and they wondered who had lost his hat here months and months and months b e f o r e and what he had found and If he had been camping here by himself, for there were signs that a rock oven had been put together. Before they left j they went in wading at least that was what j they had meant ! to do, but Jane slipped and went . ... . i . , . ,, Jane S ipped. in almost all the way, so she was a dusty, wet, muddy-looking muddy-looking person when she arrived ! home. But, as her mother said when she saw her : "It is lucky Jane has a really old j dress for taking these exploring walks!" |