Show OLD MAN COYOTES COYOTE'S GLAD I SID PRISE By Thornton W V I A little caution los loses naught Where baste huto ha t with wills peril perl may bo be boI I fraught Old Old May Coyote With Dowser Bowser tho the Hound Round a s break break- breakfast fast break fast In tn hi his stomach Old Mart Man Coy Coy- Coote Coyote ote felt like a new person Yes Yea sir he to felt It like a new pernon pet n That bre breakfast made mado all the difference In the world orld The sound of ot Dow Bow Bo Bowser's sers ser's great Ireat voice volee behind him didn't trouble him In the least leut He IV was lighter than Dowser Bowser and I n ho he knew that he would have no trouble In getting away for tor tho the snow now was ne wa too deep te for tor r Bowser Dowser to follow very er long It happened Just suet so 0 now Dow flow flow- Dowser ser gave up and returned to Par Par- Parmer Far Farmer mer Bron Brow Bro n s a house This was no weather for tor or hunting Old 1 Man lan Coyote went to his hid far far- favorite resting resting- place an and ana t curled UP upton for tor a nap He went to sleep Bleep at once It was the beat best Bleep sleep he had hd had for a long time You se see It as wee the first time limo for tot mn many days daTIl that his stomach had hd allowed him to comfortably Whon When he awoke be he felt folt stronger than he be h had felt lt for or days l y He w WM was In hl h i spirits He no WM was still hungry for fori that e one n mel meal hadn't been enough Ito to 10 m make o up for the days he had been with little or no food But Dut that hunger hunster ass no longer great enough nough to mik mike him desperate when he hb went Up tip to Farmer Browns Brown's dooryard I guess I I better stay away from there thre for tor a while said he to him him- himself himself self Anyway ay I better stay away Vay from there In daylight My him I but that meal i eal was I certAinly took n a great chance chanco to get got It but It was waa wn north orth the chance I doubt if IC I nih bo be able to do It again butI I though Ye Yes Yea sir I d doubt It if I will will willbe bo be able to do It again aln I took Bow Bow- Bowser Bowser ser er the Hound b surprise e and l him Into being b afraid of I me Ho no probably wouldn t be d the Second limo timo The next I time lime I 1 get iet a breakfast front from him It It ill hn lund haO to bo be by uso use of my Ita sit and not by boldness My I won won- wonder wonder der del how It would seem oem not to have to worry orry about food I wonder vonder how It would seem to have hare plenty of oC good food given me evoi- evoi ovel day the way wy Dowser Bonier Do ser has hns I dont dOIt don dOI t sup sup pole pose o e that toll follow ow knows what real hunger Is I don dan t suppose that In all his Iii life lito he has ever had to worry about where whets the next meal I is isto Isto to come como from Some gome eople ore are luck but dont don't know It r I guess Id I'd better stay away from these for tor a while said laId he be to himself Late that afternoon Old Man Coote started out hunting again aln hut ho he took gront groat care caro to kee keep out of sight tight of ot Farmer Browns Brown's horse hOrB Ho He didn't Intend to go co back bach there thoro for a week at least leo t But good in- in In Intentions are aro not always easy caay to live IIvo J hi te to Old Man Coyote had no luck hunting hunting- and once more moro his demanded to ha e some some- something thing ome thInS thing In It Almost ot without know know- knowing ing log what he ho was doing he ha stole around attar after ter dark to I a a place ho he could see aee the lights In Farmer Drowns Drown hOU house He lie waited until those thoRe lights wont want out Then like iL A shadow harlow he stole up to Farmer Drown s 5 barnyard Ho no simplY couldn t keep kep away anay from there thero It was possible just juat barely possible that Dowser Bowser might have bare left a bono bone In that shed hed Just outside that shed Old Mn Coyote ed one ono of the greEt great greatest est surprises of his whole lite On the snow was Q as a pan an It was ns the tha pan In Vo which Dowsers Dowser's food tood wa waS usually given him And that pan Was helped he lIed high with lIh food Thero Were We're table scraps and there thero was wasa wo a big bone bona stith some meat ment on It Yes Yas sir there thore Wn was n a big bono with I some lome meat eat on It Old Man Coyotes Coyote's eye eyes glistened and ane hi his mouth aa- aa wa a watered But right tight away he was WM sus- sus suspicious sue sus suspicious This glad god surprise was too to rood good to be true Old MAn Mm Coyote thought of or traps He lIe MAnI Sat lIat I d down nand and studied that pan of ot food tood Ito Ho walked around and aroun around It Nowhere could he ho see nrc s e or smell mell any any- thing anything that suggested n a tr p Copyright 1924 1921 Non New York Tribune Tri Tri- Tribune bune Inc |