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Show MARY" GTWlVA BONNER- m C0W6H TOIIW HilWU t0 i BARNYARD CHATTER "Such flno llttlo gonts ns there nro n tho bnrnynrd," snld Mother Goat. "Thero nro threo of tho loveliest ones ivcr seen, nnd thnt I know full well." "What do you mean when you say ?ou know something full well?" asked Pinky Pig. "Oh, It Is Just a wny of saying thut know It perfectly well, or nbsolutely tvcll, or anything of that sort." "Why wasto your tlmo using cxtrn words when you could save that tlmo for cntlhg?" asked Pinky. "Thero Is no food nbout Just now," snld Mrs. Goat. "Thnt la ono renson." "Well," said Pinky, "thnt sounds llko n good reason. Still you might dig In tho hopo you'd find something." "Yes, I might," said Mrs. Goat, "and I'm also apt to find something blown toward tho bnrnynrd by tho wind." "Oh, denr," sighed Pinky, "whnt n work tho wind could do If only it so choso. It could blow us food nil tho tlmo." "Grunt, grunt, If only tho wind wero moro obliging," snld Mnstcr Plnl: Pig. "Thero Is n fnrm not so very, very far away," said Brother Bacon, "nt tho top of n very high hill. I hnvo always been very glnd I didn't llvo there." "Why?" asked tho others. "Because," snld Brother Bncon, "I would nlwnys keep wondering If thero wasn't something down below for me, "Three of the Loveliest Ones." nnd I'd hnvo to climb down tho path which Is llko a mountain puss and which leads down below. "Then when I got down below 1 would wonder If something had come up nbovo which somehow I might be missing, nnd thero would bo so much climbing to do. Of courso It looks like n beautiful placo, but It would not do for mo. Beauty Is not tho thing I caro most for." "True, true," shrieked tho Gecso as they walked proudly by, wltli theli hends held high In tho nlr. "Grunt, grunt, I don't pny nny nttcn-tlon nttcn-tlon to them," said Brother Bacon. "But, Pigs," snld Mrs. Gont, "you're nil wnstlng n good deal of tlmo In talk Ing which you might spend digging oi thinking of food." "Thnt Is so," said Brother Bacon, "but wo'vo thought of food nil tho tlmo "Thnt Is why our tnlk hnsn't beer any moro Intelligent or worth henrlng VTou know when creatures talk nnd hnvo something to sny thut Io worth tvhllo they think of whnt they'ro say Ing. Wo don't bother to think mucl and so we don't tnlk well. Crenturci who'ro thinking of nil sorts of thlngi while they'ro tnlklng of something elsi don't tnlk well. "Thnt's tho truth, grunt, grunt." "I hnd n pleasant tlmo while waltlni ' to bo milked In tho barn last night,' snld Miss Jersey Cow. "Thero wn somo nice food thorc. "But tho other night wo found i nice Hold of grain and wero nblo to g through a placo In tho fence which ha been left open by mistake nnd so w worcn't rendy when milking tlmo cami but wo hnd to bo gone nftor. Wo wcr n good long dlstnnco off. Oh, yes, w 1 hnd been having n regular p.nrtyi" "I enmo on tho trnln to tho farm, snld n llttlo Calf, "and when I was o my wny hero tho train stopped nt on 1 stntlon nnd thero wns a mnn wli 1 shouted out, 'Is tho cnlf there?' I fc eo lmportnntl" "Ban, baa, baa," snld Lionel Shoe "I onco traveled on n trnln, too." "Wo took n long Journey on oi r feet," snld tho two Mules, nnd tin 1 shook their long enrs nnd snld, "V 9 most certainly did." |