| Show rU rUi i sn s t 4 1 2 we JOUN tN AVI POLLY Ann ARTl GAJI By fly iTOl Ha sometimes worth while bp- bp being b Ing treed 10 to know the tho joy of ot being belnA freed Johnny Chuck Johnny Chuck almost Jugh laughed d aloud when hen lie he saw Roddy noddy rot roc take taketo takito to his hia heels at sight of ot lal mer Browns Brown's Bo Boi Now thought Johnny if It Farmer Drowns Drown's Boy Doy Co nih n ill only stay around long eno to ke keep p that rod red may away Ill I'll hate ha a chance chanco to get down out ot of othis this tree Irle lIe He watched an lousI to sc ce le hat Farmer Bro nb Bo Do would woul do Tho ho latter went 0 over oer er to the a stone lone wall an and sat mt at down lown a a short dist dist-anco away Johnny i I nh h 1 ho he was doing It He knows know 1 Ive I've e been beon kept a t and he heIs hiis a Is iii giving me a s chance chanc to get down heI I thought Johnn Johnny lie He means to stay around until I 1 do 10 get do donn n I My but he is a friend worth hay hay- log InA I lov love him I do so o Then Johnn Johnny looked this wa ta and that way ay ou out of force of ot habit to make sure suro that no enemy nemy nas wai watching him blo I he began to climb down n Somehow f It was hard hard- harder er r wor work to come down n than It ItI 1 had been to climb up Ho lIe h vt h-vt hi d i up lip KO so 0 quickly that ho he I b t time to be afraid l of slip slip- slipping ping and filling falling But going Ding down was another matter How he dU dId dl dig diff bl nil hIs claws Into the bark I At last he reached the ground It seemed to him that he ho had bad nes- nes neI neer er Cr felt anything so good gond In lu all hi his I life as th the grass under his feet He was stiff and ached because of tb the cramped position In longe hI he h had been obliged to sit so bug Ho lie looked over at Brown s a aBoy i Boy The Time latter va was smiling nt at him Johnny deliberately Iy first stretched one leg and ana thin an- an another other Then hurrying In Inthe I I the least he started along close closi I to tho the old stone nail all Presently he camo came to a Place where boot there was an opening boo bo be t eln two stones A most face peeped out at him It was wa the tac face of Polly Chuck All the th time while Johnny had been Leen prisoner up in that tree Polli I Chuck had been biding hiding in that t hole She he had sought lately there then when Dowser Bowser the Hound Ins ta first firs t I appeared Later she had Started A nun mo-l anxious face pc J i cd oat ooL at him liliu It wn- wn the face a C of Pol Chuck to come out but butt Just in time ha hat had seen Roddy Fox Foz So sho she had to- to remained there While Reddy had ha been watching Johnny in the tree she had bod be been n watching Roddy Reddy Johnny walked a over and touched her hr black nose no e with his black nos Not a word was said Bald but each ach uti- uti understood the gladness in the heal heart of tho other After a moment Polly Chuck came out Then to to- to together gother gether they started along keeping close elos to the old stone wall saIl They didn ibm t hurry farmer Brown BrownS Browna Boi Do witching them noticed that they dl didn't Dt hurry He lie chuckled rho o two Chucks understand perfectly that so long as I 1 am ant near they are site thought he lie That ll is why they aro are not hurryIng I 1 Iwonder wonder where they are bound to for tor forIt It is about time tor for them to be set set- settled tied In a homo home i I 1 wonder where they will male mal e It this ear Slowly he lie got to his feet and fol lowed 10 ed Johnny and Poll Folly Chuck without appearing to do so it If they know knew they were being fol- fol fob o loved lowd they mado made no sign One Once tit they stopped at a patch of gre grean n grass and arid ate nt You see set It was y long time since the they had had ani any any- anything anything thing to eat Presently they star at Id I'd d on again They reached the beginning bc of th the Long Lane and turned Into It larmer Browns Brown's Brown Boy Hoy chuckled It looks as if It they are aro going up lip to lo make a call at my house said ald lie Copyright COP right 1123 by T W Burge Burgess The Tho next Etory The The Chucks Decide on a Place for a 0 Home |
