Show I Inn It II S s 1101 no 1 iD D l If Ills CJ S Ij W MUM MUM- t 1 The rhe guiltless often orten ma mai nl alas Through life lito as IlS guilty lIa ha c e to topa pa pass s sFa toI I Fa F rmel Bro Brown n s a Eo Bo Boi l armel Uro Crown Brown n s a Bo Boi was as talking t i himself as he walled walked o ei to to to- to wall the th henyard I I wonder onder said ald he that that I 1 didn ddn t think of flats when I 1 was as tr trying log to find who ho was ua as stealing my chickens ot Of COUise comae I 1 knew thai thu Robber Bobber the Rat flat Raland and some Borne of his family el wese e liv- liv log In the bun barn 01 os under II It bulI but butI I didn t once think thin that the thC mi mIght he be th the henyard I 1 don t tsee t tee see aee ee now how they got In there Ansi And I 1 don Ion t tee nee what they dId with the chickens after they kIlled them He went ent rot Tl lo around the honard henard ard looking i 31 I a a hole In or under the th fence rence I the flats Rat might base h ha e entered Ic I-Ic didn t S find one men rhen he thought HeI I ot of the Itself Ha Ia he exclaimed as he A led under the tb Ito Ho knew i II-ht II away ay that those Rats flats HoI I had come from under the hen hen- henhouse henhouse henhouse house At once he hc went ent out and began to look for lor a 0 hole andl un under ler the flom th the tho out outside I out side Ide He tie suspected that those tho e Rats I had ad come corn oer o 0 er Ir t om the barn I found a a v a under oder the tho th henhouse and then hid m me mode mide e the hole holo hoi up Into the henard heniard It took him quite I a while hiie to find 1 the iti 0 place where hero a 0 aRM fiat could get through under the henhouse But at lost last he pulled away ay a little hUll heap of rubbish rub lh atthe ot at atho I tho ho hack back ot of th the c and there he found a a nole nolo just about I Then lie he blacked up the lie hole holc at atthe Atthe the thc biuk hude of the lien hen houe hou-e big enough for tor n it flat Ral to pasa I through Th re Mere ere no chicken feathers around this hole so 50 Farmer I Drowns Drown's Boy knots kne that thOugh the chickens had been en dragged I Ithe under the from the th lard ard they thoy had not been dragged lout i Out it at thir thuit hol They must mustI I have hav eaten caton those c under under- underneath underneath I neath the honhouse said ald he I II think I III Ii pull up part of the tho floor and ser ice what hat hat I 1 can find I So Farmer Blown Biown s a oy I oy got some tools toola tool and started to take sip lip past pait t of o the floor of ot the th hen hen- henhouse henhouse hen henhouse house t hen hn the first board was as w up ho ered chicken tooth tenth feathers ers era underneath He kept at 01 k kand and presently he discovered red not w what hat had become of his chickens but hut the tho th fact that tho those e Hols had been living underneath the henhouse They had not been goIng back bak to the th barn at all wa a wai a big bis nest under there It was wag made of all sorts of rub rub- rub rubbish bish and all II about al out It was scattered chicken feathers feather feathers and the feet feel and bonis boni's bon 8 of the chickens Of course cour e Firmer Farmer Browns Brown Bo cleaned cle It all nit out Then ThOn ho block block- blocked ed Cd up the thc hole it lit the back hack of the henhouse utter after first t making aura suro that no flati I Last ot of all he blocked up the hole holo into Inlo the tho Finalli he nailed the floor back Th There Thre re said mid he lie I gueta this will put an en end to the tho stealing of ot my ny Y chickens But Flut had It not been for the Ils ck He k I 1 probably would hav havn lot lo t a k lot more mor e finding out where they ell dis- dis dl ls a to It If does doc over ever take a notion to catch one onn of ot my chickens h ho aill b be welcome elcome to It however ever I don t e bollo ho h will He was M sas quite quit right t From that time on he h lost lo t no chickens and you may be sure Burc that from that time on runner Browns Brown Boy wa was more than ever the tho th friend ot of Re Red tall tail the II To this day It makes him provoked to hoer hear Re Red tall Red tall tail called a Hen Len Hawk Copt right 1921 b T W Bur Bur- BurM gen gasi M The Th next story tory Happy Jack Is In Neighborly |