Show e 9 I f TirE TIU m HUNGRY WATCHERS By Dy Thornton W Yo Burgess A tot Fox Is always ays waiting round here helpless Innocents are fund found Old Old Mother Nature Heddy Reddy rox Fox was as not the only one oneto oneto oneto to lick lips hungrily at the that there were two young Porcu Porcu- PorcupInes Porcupines Porcupines pines In the Green Forest Old Man Coyote did the same thing So did the Bob Cat Even Cven little Shadow the Weasel licked hI his il lips Ups Not one ot of them hid had r eser seen a baby Porcupine None could Imagine such little sl as being anything but helpless s I Each Cach felt that It he could get them away aay from Mrs Po ky there would be no trouble at all In getting a good dinner ot of tender young Porcu Porcu- Porcu-I Porcu Porcupine Porcupine pine e eSo So Reddy Fox had not long been I In hiding where he Ie could watch the Porcupine family when hen h ho he saW Old Man Ian Coyote approaching soft soft- softly softly soft softly I ly The Tle T ie sight of ot him angel angered ed Bed 1 K R cd- cd ed eddy I d dy Fox rox But he took care to keep I I perfectly still and not let Old Mss CO Coyote ote know that he was I I The funny funn part Is that Reddy neddy 10 10 actually felt folt that Old Man COY COY- COYote Coy I Coy oto oto ote had no right there He attn acts actually all ally felt that Old Man Coyote Co ote was there thero to try to rob him ot of some some- something something something thing that belonged to Lo him of course this wasn't so at all Old Man Coyote sat dol down nand and watched Prickly Porky's family for tor tora fora tora I a while Then he ho did exactly what I Reddy Fox had done Yes air sr ho hoI dId Just that He picked out a al algood I i good hiding place from which he could watch the Porcupine family heI I and there he made himself com com- comfortable comfortable It was as quite deal cleat to Red Red-I Red Reddy dy di rox Fox that Old Man Coyote CO ote had just the same Idea that he had hadI He I had made up his mind that those young Porcupines were harmless and he Intended to wait walt for or them to come do down n out of ot that tree Hardly had Old Man tan Ian CO Coyote ote hid hid- hidden hid hidden den when hen the Bob Cat crept Into view lien Yo ler flattened hImself on the ground and glared up at the young Porcupines Such an eager hungry look as there was as asIn In those tierce fierce yellow eyes It ac- ac actually actually ac actually made Reddy Fox shIver Then Yo ler did just what hat Reddy and Old Man Coyote CO ote had done doneho I ho he hid where he could watch atch an and an walt wait Now Reddy Fo Fox Is no match for either Old Man Coyote or Yo let the Bob Dob Cat He lie 1 Do Dos s It I Imay may as liS well ell move on and tr try to forget torget those thosa young Porcupines thought Reddy It If they come comedown comedown of ot those fellows wll wil 11 down one ono s get them I haven't ha a chance No Nosir sir I haven't a II chance Black anger filled tilled Reddy's heart But still Reddy didn't go Reds Red Hedy Reddy dy has learned by experience that opportunity often comes In I the hll most unexpected wa way Oid 04 Man Ian Coyote and might get gat tired and leave before those young Porcupines Por- Por PorcupInes Por Porcupines came down They might i r JS i Kd r I may as well v move on and try tn to forget those young Porcupines s thought Reddy get et Into a fight tight over oter 0 er those young PorcupInes and gl gi give gle e him a chance to seize one of ot them Yu Y u klo you never can tell what hat nay may happen happen hap- hap pen penAs As for Mrs Porky and her two wo children they appeared to hano hale hav ha no thought of ot anything but filling their stomachs They didn't even stop stol eating to now and then look lookaround lookaround around They knew nothing ot of those hungry hidden watchers They acted Justl just l as It if there was as no one elso else In the Green Forest Foret and as It If there was no such thin thinas as danger In all the Great Word They were ere enjoying their meal of oC tender bark and young oung twigs lbs and leaves They rhey wore were ere filling V tl t stomachs with the food tood they lined lIed best and there was plenty of ot It ItI I To see them doing this and to hear their little grunts of ot pleasure mae made the hungry hidden watchers giler than ever Copyright 1924 1921 by T W Burgess I The next sto story Pat once Is Re- Re Rewarded warded lie warded |