Show PATIENCE IS REWARDED By Dy Thornton W V V Dorge Burgess S The patient seldom wait walt in aln aln Though m they may litti gain Old Old Mother r Nature Porcupines s are arc slow In all h movements They never neler hurr hurn Why should thea the 1 There Thero Is nothing Ing for tor them thorn to hurry for tor Th The walk slowly They climb just and p a little mOl moi slowly And they are just as so In their eating eating- So it 1 was as a 1 time before Mrs Porky and t trio a children showed an any signs o having eaten enough But If it food tood Is plentiful and to get even the slow slots est eat eater cater his stomach sooner or later last the tha hungry hidden noticed that the t two teo 0 young Porcupines Por Porcupines had stopped eating ThIs was a hopeful sign Mrs Pork Porky 1 a as still eating and appeal appeared appealed ed to pay no attention 1 to tG her children Perhaps those loung oung- oung would come comB down don toi lot their mother Fa Fox hoped 10 so Old Mm Man Coote COlote hoped so the Bob Cat hoped so It would be much easier casler I CatI and more satisfactory not to have Mrs Porky h where re she could In- In in interfere All three had the great greatest est eat respect tor for Mrs Porky and her thou thousand and But the tho little Porcupines did not come down They climbed about a little tor for climbing was as new to them and It was wag fun But thEY didn't climb down and Mrs Porky kept right on eating It was as as I erv tr Ing foi tal those hungry watchers do don doen n belo below It was very tn trIng Ing Indeed The They actually began to hate hale Mrs rs Porky because she he ate so much and so slowly ly But Dut at last patience was as re- re rewarded re rewarded warded Yarded Mrs Porky stopped slopped eat eat- eat mg ing She rested a a while and watch eatch- watched ed the youngsters climb By and by she spoke to them They climbed donn n to where bIle ha was sitting in a crotch of ot tho the It tice ee Shi hp hi appeared to give them a command of some sort Then with k provoking ing slowness she began to climb do doen n tall tail first The two young a rs She waited nitro at nt the lie foot fool of at the tle treo trec until both buth elc down Porcupines followed he her in the same nay ay Reddy Fo Foi got to his Ills feet teet with w without out making a sound and hIm hIm- hImself himself him himself self In la readiness to tal take taKe tage of at opportunity thit Of tel ed Old Man CO at did the same thing Yo l r the tho Bob Cat drew v his hind feet teet under him crouched ready to spring on one of those unsuspecting little Porcu Porcu- Porcupines Porcupines Porcupines pines Slowly Iy oh so slowly Iy Mrs rs POI ky backed down that tree 11 ee At last she reached the ground Ps you can guess how those three hoped that she would mo mote moe e on without waiting tor for the two youngsters But Dut she didn t She waited alted at the foot toot of at the tree until both wore ere safely do down n She Sho said sald something to them though ehat hat it was vas nobody but the they Im Then she begin beg to move away that tree and the t two tSO 0 youngsters tollo follon ed close at her heels Now tha that they I ele down on the ground nedd Reddy and Old Man an Coy Coy- Coyote Coyote Coyote ote and YO ler could see them bet bet- better better bet better ter They looked I very ery harmless and helpless They are arc too young to have any little spears tho Reddy And AndI I the ame thought was HS In the mind of Old Man IIan Coyote and In the mind of Yo lel the tho Bob Cat They looked as If it they would be tender and very good eating dill did those two little Porcupines If I only they 1 auld drop behind I Copyright 1924 by T W Burgess The net next story stor A Startling Dis- Dis Disappointment Dis Disappointment appointment |