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Show MiAK ."'POSSU31 HOASi OVK cold night Ornndpu Possum sat In-side the stove warming ids f'l 1 when little pnssy. h!3 grandson, opened j the oven door. 'Tut your feel in grandpa; I hey will get u toasty feei ng In a Jliry." lie said. Grandpa I'ossuin Jumped up. "CM " ll;nr door!., lie cried, in such ii fin voire tiiat his grandson looked In wonderment, won-derment, for (irunt.'pu wan never cross lo liJ ut. "An open oven always re-u:ln'-3 me of something that happened to me when I was u voting fellow, and t never tl.lnlt about It without shuddering." shud-dering." :randpu explained when Pussy closed the door. "Oh, tell nie nooni It grandpa I Was I: mi adventure'" asked Pussy. "Yes, I guess you would eall It that, hut I cull It u very narrow escape." , .. ay U.at liiaue hie H very ull-liapjiy.- "Then they opei.t j the ling. I was I playing dead of eou'rse. all the lime I n Tier lliey had me in Hie bag. so tliev I look me St.; the -ail and very naigl 'y I tossed me int.i the oven and hanged the door. "Alter a while all was still and 1 begun to move about, and the lirsl th,ng I knew out I ml'ed on the lloor of Hie kitchen. I had managed l push open I lie oven door. "Luckily for me the window was o en and out 1 went and ran for home, hut I did not sleep a wink that night 1 for thinking of how near I came to being roasted. "And Unit is the reason I can never see an oven door open without a shudder, and would rather warm my feet Home other way than by putting them In the oven." Little Tossy was wide-eyed when Ids tirandpa linUhed the story. "I II never open an oven -door again." he said. And Grandpa nodded and smiled as he lighted his pipe for a Kinoke to make him forget the terrible adventure of his younger days. ( by ilcClur Newnpttper tl) ndlcaU.) f& "Oh, Tell Me About It, Grandpa." . said Oraiiflpn Possum. "I don't like to talk about It, but I will tell you, my son. If you will promise never to open an oven door again when I am around." Little Pussy promised to tie very careful about oven doors and Grandpa began bis story. "It was a bright, moonlight night," he si. Id, "and I bad run up to the farm to find something fr my supper, when all at once I neard noises that made me forget I was hungry, and I ran for the woods. I had hardly reached the foot of a big tree when behind me came men and dogs and the dogs were barking so they sent shivers along my spin ft, but I managed to get up in the tree and lav Hat on a big branch. "1 was all nicely flxed when, what did one of those men tin, but reach ..p with a long pole and knock me oiT, and somehow 1 fell into a bag which one ' man held Instead of landing on the ground among the dogs, us I thoughi I should. "They carried me off with men shouting and the dogs barking in the most nerve-racking manner ami the next thing I kne I was in ii kitchen for there was a small hole In the bar through which I could see a little what was going on around me. "Pretty soon I heard one of the men say: 'Put blm In the oven; be will he 1 si.fe there, and. anyway, he may as well get used to It because he will have to stay there ou'te a long time tomorrow.' And then they nil laughed |