Show it aft Q F 1 III biffle siems iea M P I 1 j for be ir conw WS WS 3 0 burge HOW THE MOOSE GOT EVEN 0 OF F COURSE that Is another way of saying that if some one wrongs us we try to wrong them in return but there are times when it seems as if the only way to teach some people a lesson so that they will not forget it Is to treat them as they treat others it was something like this with FIa Fla thorns the moose when he did the thing about which honker the goose told duster buster dear bear and peter reter rabbit and the others sitting on the shore of the pond of paddy the beaver deep in the green forest it was thia this way began honk bonk er old ria thorns had been hunt ed and hunted by men A ith terrible guns until he was so uneasy and worried that he couldn t cat eat or sleep the rustling of a leaf fall lug ing from a tree would make him ji j mp and shake all over it was dreadful ue ile didn dian t dare go to any of the places or use any of the paths walh had been beca perfectly safe all summer once in a while he fie would steal down to the lake alere I 1 was wag and while he got his breath between drinks he be would tell me about a lout his troubles if these men things would fight fairly I 1 be afraid said he but they don t L U V hat chance hive I 1 got against them when ben they kill or hurt with their terrible fire sticks while yet a long way uny off it if they would meet me face to face and fight fairly as any honest liver in the a great reat IN does I 1 goulda wouldn t be afraid le ie never hitri harmed ned or bothered them if I 1 could just catch one of them without his terrible fire stick id show you chos afraid right while he was talking there was rias the bang of one of those terrible fire sticks aad and old flat horns welt right down on his knees with a grunt and there was a red mark where something had hit him hina but it kill him it just hurt him dreadfully and knocked him down he ile closed his eyes tor for just a wee minute with the pain and when he ocene them there was the hunter running toward him tind shouting Shout ln excitedly I 1 guess by the way alti he acted that he never bad had shot anything like FIa Fla thorns before or he would have known better than to run out that way the minute old ria thorns saw him he forgot all about being afraid of the hunter lie ile forgot all about the pain from tha burt cade made by tt that t fobs able se stick he ile just jumped to his feet all the hair on the back of his neck standing on end with anger and with a fierce sounding snort he put his big bornt down and rushed straight at that hunter the fire stick banged once more but I 1 guess if it thee these men would fight fairly I 1 be afraid said H he r the hunter was too frightened to shoot straight anyway the hunter dropped his fire stick and start cd ed to climb a tree just the way boj do buser lie ile got out of reach of flat horns just in tine time he ile was the th worst scared seared hunter you ever saw ills eyes looked as if they would pop out of his head bead when he reached the first branch branches he hung on for dear life while old FIa Fla thorns thoms butted the tree so go hard that I 1 didn dian t know tut he would knock it down it was all the hunter could do to hold on how now he be did fell yell I 1 it makes me laugh now just to think of 0 it then old Fla Flat thorns borus stamped on the fire stick and threw it about until I 1 guess it good for much after a while he grew tired and went off into the woods out of sight the nan man malted alt a long time and I 1 guess finacy be he made up bis his mind that flat horns really had gone away he ile started to come down but was only half way when out rushed riat borns horns as angry as ever and the hunter buter scrambled back tack as fat fast as ever be he could I 1 Ha lat thorns borns kept him up in that tree all night and it was a pretty cold night too lie certainly was getting een tor for all the worry and trouble the hunters had made him and I 1 didat dida t blame him a bit do you ml not a bit served that hunter right guess he knows now what it Is like to be hunted growled buster bear in his deep grumbly voice his little eyes twin kling ish I 1 could have seen him I 1 did the hunter get away I 1 I 1 asked peter f E by 3 0 lloyd 1 W service Ser ric |