Show E Daddy's Daddys Qa Dd vs v's Ef il i r 8 F hairy Fairy ilY Tale T le leY i i Y MN i AARY i ft GRAHAM n BONNER i i u OWLS Ive promised to tell teU you ou something of owls owl this evening e said Daddy animals Walking Along at iut NIght u 0 un Oh h jr 7 yes ves 6 e s a. a he ne hunts bunts and frightens fright fright- ens little animals almost out of their wits and eats them He lie h hunts at night end oh how afraid the little rabbits rab rab- bits are of him Old Owl Horned as they call him is their enemy and ond their little hearts beat with fear if Ir they think he is anywhere anywhere any any- where around How lIow many mony of their little hearts he has stopped beating altogether I Ine lie ne doesn't even n mind Mr Ir Skunk Skunk and his family and he thinks Its It's a fine sight to see n a Mother Skunk walking along alone at night followed by her small children each ach walking one by one as ns though in a drill The Skunk family sleep during the very coldest part of the winter but the rest of ot the time they are as-ake as which awake rejoices old Owls Owl's heart heart if ft If lie be h can cab be said to have a heart The poor Skunk family would like lIle to be sociable but no one OM wants to be with them except old hornet Homed Owl and they do not earn corn for tor his kind of sociability t I Old Owl Horned tins has tufts upon his ears so that he be can be told from other owls o and then he lie is ver very big and very strong He ne gives glees a terrible shriek and a mournful call and the little animals animal tremble lie He doesn't bother about out building n himself a R home but he tries to find Gnu u unest nf nest st that lies liDS been left vacant and ha has out a 11 birds' birds To Let sign That sign in the bird world Is simply simply simply sim sim- ply an nn empty nest And when a n nest lc Js To Let Lt or For Fr Kent no one need meed do anything but move In In-If In if It Is a n suitable place Now the Barn Owl Owl Is quite ent The Barn BarD Owl Is far tar more gentle looking In appearance for tor Old Horned Horned- Owl Is a dangerous looking creature tool The Owl Barn-Owl Is known too as the Monkey Faced Owl for his face tace is rather different from the faces of ruo most t ow owl owls Ii lOne lie has hils soft feathers fathers of ot gray an ant I brown and yellowish white with speckled decorations He lie hasn't any tufts over his ears such as the Horned Great Owl has lIe He has little brown eyes es and long legs and he likes to have his nest in the hollow of a tree as sometimes the Horned Great Owl does too or under undera a roof of a barn Mrs Owl Barn lays six b beautiful white eggs ggs In the nest and she thinks thinks' no other eggs would do dot I IThe The Owl ham Is one ot of the latest of the Owls to nest to-nest nest nest and In to many many I ways was Is very ven- ery dlf dif I ferent from the Gr Horned Great Owl The Owl Barn is rather shy thy and isn't often orten seen lie but they do a great deal of good work destroying bad Insects and brown rats who would do a great deal of harm Kann Yes I cannot say that I 1 have ha very much that is good to say about Old Owl Horned but I have a n great creat ana l t perhaps perhaps per per- haps Ill I'll choose the Horned Great Owl and the Barn 0 Owl I as the ones to talk about The Great Great- Horned Owl is the first bird of ot the year when it comes to nesting but I dont don't know that I Ican Ican Ican can say very much else for him himlie lie He Is a very cruel creature creature- going after rabbits and other small to tov v r I deal Jeal that Is good Far More Gentle to say about the useful Owl ham and so I told about Owl Horned l first and Owl ham last saving the better owl for the last J I That is the tue way it should be when one Is telling about these two Owl fam fam- mes Ines |