Show I 1 INT ACEB A C U DT R V nUU LS Appearances sometimes deceive Be not too I cady to belle believe VI Old Old pother Mother other Nature Now how the big bie rooster who nho ho had chased the Ui young oung Chuck under Browns Brown's barn couldn t got gel through the tho hole the oung Chuck had gone th through rough lie He wouldn t l have gone under there anyway He lie had no liking for dark As soon as the oung Chuck had hid disappeared the big rooster stretched up to his full heIght opened his mouth and crowed doodle doo Cock Cock- doodle Cock doodle le-doodle-doo doodle Cockle doodle Cockle crowed th the ooster I and then sery ery proudly walked back to where the hens were for tor them to admire his bras bra ery cry Never ever ever had the J loung oung Chuck heard a a rooster crow cron before ex- ex ex cx excepting in the tha distance and arid It made him shiver The big rooster seemed a very terrible fellow lellow to the young oung Chuck and he ho had Iad no desire to see seo more mor ot of him III 1 II stay tay here her until those bIg birds go away said the oung Chuck Chucle to himself I 1 guess it tt was wasa wasa wasa a mistake coming up here 1 I guess that funny Old Mr Toad To d Mas as right er Howe er this seems sem like a n good hiding place so I II just stay slay here until there Is a a chance chine to get back to the Green Meadows For n a while shile the young Chuck squatted right close to tho the hole through which ho he had entered But Buthe he ho grew tired of ot sitting still He decided to look around under Far Farmer mer Brown s barn some sonic time he be crept about examining every very thing thing ho he found He lie was beginning to feel tel quite at home He Ho had seen Been arid and heard nothing to be afraid I ot of I Suddenly in the th darkest corner he came face to race fuce lac with a n strang strung stranger er or It was as so sudden and cd I ed that the young yount Chuck liS bad baO- badly baa ly ly frightened Not know Ing what I else to do he drew back his lips so as to show his Ills teeth and growl growl- growled growled growled ed down In his throat It was the thing he h could have done I The Tho stranger backed up a 0 little Who arc are you he h demanded In Ina Ina Ina a fierce tierce squeaky voice 1 I I I V 1 I 2 I I II I I I cI mind nho ho I am sho ho are arc 1 you led growled the oU oung g Chuck I Never mind who I am Who I I are you ou gro growled led the tha young II Chuck I I 1 m Robber the tir Rat flat And I I dont don't allow anybody in here re- re reI re replied I plied the stranger trying to appear I very bold and tierce fierce I I Well what are you going to do about It gro growled led the th oung Chuck for by this time he had I dia CO ered that this stranger with the I fierce looking eyes nas as no DO bigger I than himself In fact tact It if nn ani thing ho he hea wa a was n a nee ee bit smaller So the th oung Chuc Chuck put on a n bold face tace and stood stool his hia ground Nothing just now replied ROb ROb-I Rob Rob Rob- ber the Rat In his squeaky olce for ho was a clever clover tell fellow ow and of I Ino no mind to fight It If a fight tight could be n Tell me how you hap hap- happen hap happen beI I pen to be bl here he added In a mild tone I 1 am not used to 10 having so you must excuse me If I ItI seemed a bit impolite Now ow though he didn't know it H I the young Chuck had begun to feel lonesome and he h was only too glad to ha hae haie e some Homo one to talk to lIe He I told lold Robber the th Rat Hat who he h was wasand wasand wasand and how he had started out to see seethe the tho Great World Ho He told him of othe I the terrible big bird that had chas chas- chased chased ed him under the tho barn At this Robber grinned You see he I guessed guE right n nay away ay that that roost rooster roost roost-I er r had mistaken the young Chuck for hImself Copyright 1923 1922 by T W Burgess I The Tho next story The BoastIng I i ot of Robber the Hat Rat |