Show I I 11 It iii i TI TRE If Iu II u f p I Y 1 I I liTHE THE YOUN YOUNG CHUCK CIUCK BY In ins By THORNTON W BUI BURGESS IWho Who profits profits profit's not by what he learns Sure trouble and misfortune earns Old Old Mother Nature I IThe The runaway young Chuck who ii ad hau such a escape from frem the flak Ha k had had the first real fright of ot his life and It had been a terrible fright lIe a was so frightened 0 s n-s he ho lay flat down on the ground under a thick bush that for a moment or t two 0 he didn t darn dar open opel his tits eves The rhe thing h he saw sa saw saw- before he closed them was Va a terrible creature which emed seemed to be all claws fleice eyes hooked bill and great flapping wings To that terrified little Chuck had looked many time as big a aa as he really was When he did open his eyes again the little Chuck at first saw noth noth- nothIng nothing ing log of his terrible enemy Then ho he chanced to look 1001 up IT through the bush buch h under which he was hIding and there he saw caw already hIgh up In the sky Had It not been that as he watched he saw Red Red- Ked tall grow smaller and smaller maUer as asbe be got further and further away I that little Chuck wO would have hase had hard work worle to believe that that could be the terrible creature who had o so nearly cau caught ht him Now there Is la tills this much N shout out the little people ot of the Green lor l'or est est eat and the Green Meadows They get just as ns frights as boy boys and girls over ever get but they get over ovel them a 11 great de deal 1 quicker The young Chuck got over hi his friGht almost as soon as the Hawk was out Of o sight eight He gOt of over of lotsof thinking the but he did a lots loti lotof My MY mother was waa right said aid h ho he to himself She She knewl what she me was WILS tILl talking talking- king about and ands I she wasn't SO BO silly Billy as I thOUght she was when she made us iro go Into the tho house whenever that dreadful fellow came around He fIe didn't I look dreadful then but t I guess that was because ho he was WILlI so ao high up In latho the tho sky ky I guess the trouble with me was that I wasn't wasn't watching up In the sky k It If I 1 had been Men I would seen him him- and he ha wouldn t tha ha have ve had a chance to rive gise I m me such suchA II d ht He lie shivered ns s he thought of at those dreadful S Cows 6 ws 1 O Ol l leh J I r rd k d r rDe ne De sl n as ns he lie thought of those C dreadful tuI do claws W I 1 I never nover hp by surprised that wa way again No Xo lr I never lever will Hero Her Hero after after Ill I'll keep watch un up up In the I Isky sky After a while the young Chuck ventured to move orr on He to go back out in the middle of the Long Lung Lane nr 1 it wu was wua p a jupi Dui and clear and so 00 t o tasi tass as going Then i I Jle he hesitated If 1 I hadn't bet been n out there In the open that fellow t have seen Den rep 1 thought bl ht her It n Is harder going In here but as long as I keep under the v bushes bu hes no one can see roe me up In the tha sky ky I guess ue g-ue s this la Is l the th thing thing fO tor me to do So o the oung Ch Chuck uel slatted on on but he kept in n anions the th bushes besides the Lung long lane 1 er there nos as a II chance he would look lookup lookup lookup J up through them to th l tie esq tk He Hewn wn profiting by th the l lesson Son Ills his It ter r Able fright Had given 6 hIm He Ho Hoa as aas a as taking care car not to give ve Re Re- tall Re-tall tan tall another chance and he knew j rIght down in hIs hi heart th that t he h never nevet would forget that lesson Alt All the tho rest of his M film be Jle would re- re remember re member r r that the tho first law of ot life 18 Is I safety safelY rUTht 1923 1993 19 3 b by by T W Burgess t Thy rh next story The Youn Young I Is 18 Impolite |