Show III I JACKS JACK'S HIND FOOT Y YOUNG DUNG JACK JACKRABBIT RABBIT had bad been told by his mother not t ta venture out There Is going to be a storm said Mrs Rabbit and the snow will willbe willbe be deep and the wind anything but gentle genUe so snuggle down In your our bed and go to sleep But Jack Rabbit was hun hungry ry very hungry Indeed for tor he had hod seen some pome turnips being carried Into Mr Mans Man's barn and though he did not darp dare go goIn goin goin in then he did look about and find finda findo a o nice convenient hole where he could go In later and have n a feast And that was Just what he had hm planned to do that night after atter all alt the family were asleep He De Intended to torun torun torun run up to the farm farn again and creep I out softly and havo have all the turnips he could eat for once la Li his life lite Mr Dog would be sound asleep and he would not be nosing about looking for tor poor little hungry rabbits at that hour bour and Mr Horse never bothered anyone anone and now his mother was spoil spoil- r He intended i Je ed J to r Coree creep p. p lug Ing It H all by sa saying Ing It was going to snow and ond the wind would blow It was too bad that was all there was about it Jack Rabbit thought nil all this and more too and the first fust thing he knew instead of being sleepy leepy he was wide wideawake wideawake awake and hungrier than ever er He got out of his nice warm bed and peeked pecked out of the door It wasn't snowing and even if the wind was blowing there was the moon Mother does not know ever everything and this tills time she surely is mistaken thought Jack He did not notice the clouds scudding scudding scud scud- ding across the face of ot the moon for his mind was on those turnips up in Mr Mans Man's barn He lIe took long leaps and Jumps and soon Jack was crossing the field runnIng running running run run- ning toward the barn Oh dear cried Jack as os he stopped In the snow a n minute for there was nas snow on the ground that had been there a long time but the thing that made him cry out was a heavy gust of ot wind that blew his long ears eurs about and lifted a handful of ot dry which struck Jack right in Ms Ills e eyes ejes es The moon was nowhere to be seen now and as Jack Jacl Rabbit hopped along he saw san that snow was conning coining down very fast fost It was no use turning buck back now so he kept right on hopping toward toward to to- ward the barn He lIe was pretty cold and tired when he got to he convenient hole In the side of ot the burn und and when he was In where It was nice and warm once more Jack waited wafted a minute before running over o to the turnips which he I saw on the floor in one corner of the barn There Is Mrs Hen llen Hc n and ond her chick chick- thou thought ht Jack She he was sensible e lo to come In here Instead of ot staying stay ing lug In the poultry house bouse this cold nJ night ht and then she Is safer here from Mr rr Fox than with the other poultry Jacks Jack's ears cars went up straight for he be heard a sound Bound outside although It was faint taint that he thought sitting very still and his trembling a as he listened I guess I better run right home said Jack Rabbit hurrying toward tov to ard the convenient hole through which he had hm entered but when ho h reached 1 1 L he changed his mind quickly or or Mr Foxs Fox's nose was poked through and Jack Rabbit turned to run Then he lie remembered his hind feet and ond with a n mighty hard kick Jack struck Mr Fox right In the face tace which made him see stars and sent him running home sure some sonic terrible creature was hidden in Mr Mans Man's barn But Mrs Hen nen was wide awake for tor forshe forshe she was aware Mr Fox was about before before be be- fore Jack had seen him and now she was clucking her thanks at Jack as ashe ashe aslie he lie sat trembling behind a barrel Jack Rabbit was a hero and did not know It It for Mrs Hen told him he had saved her and her hel children also alsofrom alsofrom from Crom that bad Mr Fox By and by when It was all quiet again In the barn Jack crept to the turnips and ate his fill and then he heran heran heran ran ot off oC home again for It had stopped snowing and the moon was out Copyright t. t a |