| Show J Jd d 1 I G lIS 9 I HI By Hy Thornton M Suspicion like a oo need eed Ill spring forth from a n tiny sped aped Old Old hl n Dro s Eo BOta good na tuned freckled face 1 tore i orl a look of lOf y Mingled with Ith It was it-was was Vas a look 1001 of puzzlement Frown n Bos Bo v was a at both wort Id I'd d and Chickens were ere from the henard heniard There Ther 11 wai nas no nay ay for tor them to get out es so some 0 some one must mut base ha them out It Va was very sery cry clear that a had been visiting that Iver Every day for tor a s eek cek one or two h 0 chickens had disappeared Each morning Farmer Drowns Browns joy Oy counted the chickens ens He a s counted them twice t to make sure Mire that he had not mode made l s mistake Of course each time the number nas as smaller maller So tar he hid d been unable to find any trace hace of ot Ilie thief It It cant can't be Reddy Roddy 10 roc t tl of Farmer Ja BI 0 n s Bo There Theio 0 lent lenta In t ta ta a place where e he old could get pt In end nd endI indI I know Imo I haun t left the te g open once For the same It cant t be bo 01 Old 1 Man ote 1 the lie only one I can think of ct o is Shadow the easel ea 1 eael cl But Hut It If it sera NO wind window h d ow on he would It kill hill III a lot lo 10 at one on time instead Instead of ot just ono one or two ISo ISo- Tic sides side sides hi lit couldn coul n t cany CUll y them asa al and he If It he ha could I me of those thos chickens w wt ro len t ii h t road oad da light Just then he noticed Rack PUS Pussy sitting on toe te doorstep washing herself A t suspicion pop pop- popped pop pod ped Into his head He lie stared a nt Black Dlack long lont ind std hArd I h hi he muttered K it that cat t has turned chicken filler She stag as taught she site was gas as huh littin net nel netto notto to touch chickens 1 mud and IJ I dolt dort a hie to thinly think that the hc he ts la doing It now She could do it She bhe could oscr O Into chicken lard aid and out out again the tho same IV the he he c certainly r- r does docs love to hunt hUllt bada ds and It may bo ho that she oho Is la itch chicken on the sl sly ly He Ho leJ leJat eJ at Black Pussy PUSS Pu s But flack Pussy 1 Inno iano- Innocent cent enough She to haH bust nothing more important tant on nl her h mind than Ihan getting her hH fill fui coat cat as clean as an n i possible If It she 11 c guilty cho rho ell didn't show It nut But Farmer Brouna Brown Doyun Boy Doy un t satis satisfied fled fied lie Jle H knew tho that th you cannot annat always tell by So 80 for tOI the I neat est ot of o the th day ho hl kept ept aleh of ot Black Prissy He lIe was stile III e that she sho didn t ifo Ita near that chicken yard ard Yet Yet when ho he count counted cd ed the chickens before orr shutting l I f l l I ii t- t He lie at al Black Blad PitS Pins Ion lona and hard bard them up for tor the night another was as missing Browns Brown's Bov Boy shut the tho th chickens up and went en over to the doorstep He sat down clown and rested his hie elbows s on his knees knee and nd Isis chIn In his hands hero ho he cafor ant for tor the longest time lIE II was na a tr trying Ing to solve sake soh e the I ste y of those disappearing chickens chicken At last he jumped up I I wonder Jf a Hank k can be the thiel thiet lit lir 1 ea exclaimed claimed Why Wh t I think of that before t H dl and anil his mute lire are tho the only Hawks I have hate seen around here herc and I Dm bas m sure suie that neither of ot there them would touch my chickens I know they ale aie called lIen Hawks Hawk but they t be boIt If they should find a 3 stray chicken away tram front the hens henard ard thy might catch It but even that li Ii doubt doubt- doubtful doubtful tul ful C they t regular visit Its I-Its to the chick the chick en en yard ard But mat mai ma h other in In other member of ot the tho th 1 Hiv lk I fam ily lIy family who ho Is a chicken livIng r o in the th Green Forest Foi est and I Lase tailed failed to ace co him Tomorrow i ii i keep watch atch I Copyright 19 1924 4 hW hv in I l Vi W But But- seas I Dur-I The net neat story stori stor Farm l r Brown s a Boy Eoy Is Ia Much 00 Flamingos live In large larce flocks and sleep standing on one leg Ice |
