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Show OLD FOX'S KFVFXiF OLD CKANIU'A FOX, as he was -ailed by all the young wood ani-nals, ani-nals, hail been bothered so much by ii'e youngsters that he was at his wits' Mid lo know how to punish them. One day he was silling outside his door dozing In the sun when Hilly Squirrel and his brother climbed into I he tree over Orundpa Fox and let down on a string a wlggly turtle, which scared old (jrundpa so be tumbled tum-bled out of his chair. Another day he fell asleep In his chair and when he awoke and picked up his pipe, which had fallen on the ground, what had Tommte Rubbit and pipe with black pepper, so poor Grandpa Grand-pa B"ox almost sneezed his head off. Another time they stole his spectacles specta-cles and put in a magnifying gloss, so that everything looked so big to hWi that he was afraid to move. But. the limit of his patience was reached when they tied strings to all the sticks of wood and when Grandpa Fox went out to get his wood In for the night as fast as he picked It up those bad youngsters would tug at the string and down It would fall. Grandpa Fox could not see real well In the hulf-light and It took him a long time to find out what was happening, hap-pening, but when he did he snapped off the string from the sticks in a hurry, hur-ry, you may be sure, looking very-angry. very-angry. He knew better than to talk, for that was just what the youngsters wanted, und Grandpa Fox, having been young himself, hnd not forgotten his youthful tricks. "I'll fix those youngsters," said Grandpa, as he sat smoking by the fire that night. "I may be getting old, I but I think I can scrape up a thought I or two that will pay them off in good i shape.'' For a long time afier that Cnuulpa Fox was very busy every evening, and if the Squirrel brothers and Tonnnie Rabbit had watched they might have noticed the light hurning hue In Grandpa's cabin. j He chuckled as he worked, and though it was very delicute work Grandpa felt it would be well worth all the trouble and care he was taking. A basket of big nuts stood on one side of his chair and from these Grandpa Grand-pa Fox was very carefully taking all the meat, leaving the shells in two pieces, which fitted perfectly together when empty. These he filled with pepper red pepper, too and then glued the shells so nicely that even an expert could not have told they had been opened. These, of course, were being prepared pre-pared especially for the Squirrel brothers. (Copyright.) |