Show BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN V by THORNTON W BURGESS REDDY FOX ADMIRES JERRYS HOUSE IF F IN all the great world there Is anybody pleasanter than reddy fox when he tries to be pleasant I 1 don t know who it Is ot of coarse course in that handsome red coat of his he Is very good looking anyway then when he puts on the polite airs that no one knows better than he how to put on brings into his eyes an innocent look and smiles he Is as pleasant a fellow as you would care to meet only when ben be he forgets ard grins a little too broad 14 A LAIR IV L 4 good evening ne gabor jerry said he ly so that he shows all his long teeth does his face lose lobe its pleasant look tool now reddy fox was one of those who knew all about what was going on in the smiling pool you know reddy gets his living by knowing what is going on about him every enery night willie jerry muskrat was at work on that WUL new house reddy had stolen over to the smiling pool from among the rushes watched jerry for a little while and then stolen away again taking the greatest carp care not to be seen there isn t the least use in the world trying to get him now I 1 said he as hp he thought the matter over there v front on t be any use as long as he Is at work on oil that new house but when it Is finished hell he 11 have less to think about I 1 must see it if I 1 cannot find something to interest him reddy grinned and the grin was the kind of a grin which showed all his long teeth he ile grinned just that sime same way each night as he trotted away from the smiling pool after watching jerry work at last came the time when jerry stopped working because you know the house was finished keddy reddy knew when jerry stopped working oh yes redda knew all about it IL then one evening reddy visited the smiling pool quite openly he sat right out on an the bank in the moon light and you coulden couldn rit t imagine any body more pleasant than was reddy lie ile had his most polite airs and his best grin good evening neighbor jerry said he be and his voice was as pleasant as he knew how to mal e it jerry stopped swimming long enough to look up at reddy then because he could hardly be less polite than reddy he squeaked good evening and started on his way in a minute he dived and disappeared disappear ea as he swam for the entrance to a certain tunnel in the bank when he once more popped his bead head out of the wa ter for a breath of fresh air reddy was still sitting on the bank right where he bad had been and he was still as pleasant as before I 1 have been admiring dour our house said reddy teddy you know I 1 tra travel trae e about a great deal and have hae seen many houses but never have I 1 seen one to compare with this it Is wonderful not even paddy the beaver can build such a house as this now of course this was rank flat tery and not the truth at all for pad dy d the beaver is a master builder as everybody knows but it sounded sweet in the ears of jerry muskrat in spite of the fact that he knew so he lingered to hear what more more reddy might say 0 1933 by T W burgess burgees service |