Show A DIO OU G cli D By Thornton Too much of comfort and anti of oC o ease case Im I'm very cry ery sure suro v with Ith non none agrees Old Old Mother Nature I It Isn't alwa s th th- th best thing tiling In Inthe inthe Ithe the world orld to tic have things perfectly easy and comfortable and safe There li is such I a it thing a i hai lug Ing too easy cas as and comfortable and sa sato safe Co This is true of ot human folks folky and nn l more moro true of the little people of ot the Green lorest and and the Green You know tho the only way any the latter learn I bv by experience nce 1 who ho are In linger dinger usually ar are the smartest In avoiding a danger No Now Non the el c ildren of oC Johnny and Poll Folly Chuck Chucle were nero gro groIn groning In I Up tip nith- nith with without Ith- Ith out much knon ledge of ot the dan dan- dangen dan gen gerl of the Great World their home was as where It was as their enemies kept away from them f So Soda oday o oda da utter niter day the young Chucks napped and played without thought of danger Once in great while hue hile the thc h wit swing high overhead o ihen Polly Chuck would ouM Ih give glie I the sig- sig sig signal nal niI lor tor the th five e oung Chucks s to scamper Into their home But this didn't happen often orten enough nough to tobe tobe tobo be exciting By the middle of the ummer nummer the oung Chucks were quite halt half halt grown gro gronn nand and note e beginning to feet teel i quite Independent This was nas as true ot of one ono In particular H Ho was a 8 lIttle tho the biggest and he ho made madeI I Polly Poll Chuck more trouble than all allI I th others together He was con con- con continually wondering away lI from home further than was as bate afe I lolly olly I Chuck i would miss him and go 10 look for tor him bun When hen sho she found him himI I she would scold as PollY Chuck can Then she would him home homo and send him Im do down don n In- In Into In Into Ito to the house But the very ery next chance he ho got thi thil disobedient young Chuck would do the same thing over oser again I Early Darly one morning Poll led the five children across tho the Long Lane to breakfast on S s clo doter clover cloer er on the other side She was in th the habIt of ot doing this thia evely 01 Y morning This time the disobedient oung Chuck was the last one ono In the line of i oung Chucks as they sta started ted s acro-s the Long Lane The first Otto one kept close to his mothers mother's heels The second one ono kept close to the first one The third was i I lie liC would dh hint him home and f him Into litto the liou hou house right behind and the fourth was wasas wasas as clo o as a he could get to the one In un front of him I The disobedient oung Chuck started with nith the rest and kept his place at the end of ot the line until they reached the middle of the theLong theLong Long Lane There he stopped topped Ills mother had disappeared In the bushes on the other side and his brothers and ani sisters bisters wiro no follow follow- following following ing InS as fist as they could He until the lat last one lla had 1 dis- dis disappeared dis disappeared appeared Then he looked d up the theLong theLong theLong Long Lane L and an down the Long Lane Ever Eer since he ho had first I crossed that Long Iong Lane he had anted to explore Itow it Now ow was hIs chance Should he go 10 up or down the Long Lane lIe He decided to go up Im Im I'm plenty big enough nough to take care of myself said he to him him himself self elt Besides there isn t any any- anything anything any anything thing to be afraid of anyway There must be a lot of places plaes more fbi Interesting than It Is around home It is stupid there Nothing e eser cr happens There isn't any excite excite- excitement m ment nt The oung oune chuck took one last look to make inake sure that his mother hadn't missed him Then he turned and scampered up the tho Long Lane a as fast tast as he could so go Ho He meant to get as tar far as he be could before his mother missed him lie He was running 0 away ay Copyright Cop right 1923 by T W Burgess The next t tori p D Ees es esSee See the tile Young Runaway |