Show P 1 Ti fR S 'S noY BOY i vS PL J S Ir roil FOR TIlE THE ChUCKS I By fly Thornton W V V s Thorn Them thanIn Is no Joy that's greater than In aid of ot other folks to plan pian T Bro Bros Browns n s Do Boj BOl It If Johnny Chuck could hive heard and understood v what hat Farm Farmer er Brown Brow said about drowning him out he be would have been very Un- Un Uneasy Uneasy un uneasy easy Mut Johnny Chuck didn't hear and he wouldn t have under under- understood understood understood stood if ho he had heard so Johnny didn't But Farmer Brown Browns s boy worried Yes sir Browns Brown's Boy worried You see he ha knew ju just t how his father hit tt Ho He knew that Ithen It if when hen the co coas cm was as UI til up these thee Chucks ate much of oit It It Farmer Brown would In insist that somethIng be done to those Chucks I He woud insist that they be drowned out or shot or d Farmer Browns Brown's Boy couldn dI t I blame his father tather much tor for that way any ny I F Of course ourse said Browns Bro Boy to himself I ro n trap those tv two tao 0 Chucks and carr carry them oft off and md let them theta go where they will do no harm But th thea the have worked hard to make this new home and it seems a pity to upset all alt their plans Then too I like to see sec them around I wish I could talk to them and tell them that they mu tn t go In that corn corn- cornfield corn I cornfield field There I Is plenty of ot food tood tor them on the other side of oC the Long Lone Lane ande and ive we will wilt never miss the I clo elmer 11 and grass there I just ran can t bear boar to think of ot bothering them I For lor several days Farmer Browns Brown's Boy kept thinking about Johnny and Polly Chuck and trying to thInk of ot some way ay of ot keeping tOI them from being disturbed i bU but l for tor the life ot or him he couldn tl I thin think of oC o a thing he could do U j used to go down every day to visit vi-It them and they thy soon became so used to him that they would allow him to come very near be- be before before be before fore they disappeared dl Inside their home The cornfield had been plowed and harrowed ved but it was as not yet time to put In the corn It was while he lie was down near the Chuck home looking over oyer the corn corn- cornfield field corn fIeld that a great idea came to him Farmer Browns Brown's Boy begin began to whistle a way lie he has Ia ot of dom doi when he lie Is happy I I have It Chucks are very sery fond of ot beans They love young bean I plants lants uw That's what hat I II do Ill I'll plant a garden for lor Johnn and anil Polly Folly Chuck They arc are also very fond of squash plants I II plant some squashes and some beans just tor for them These will vill grow cry tery cry nicely bo- bo tw bo-tw en rows rO row of or young corn and Polly Folly and Johnny Chuck wont won t bothe bother the he corn orl ori when V hel t they hey can get those other things That's whit Ill I'll do I It II plant a garden tor for John John- Johnny Johnny Johnny ny and ond Folly Chuc Chuck My ly wouldn t Johnny and Polly Folly Chuck have been tickled had what Brown Browns Brown's Boy was planning to do But of ot course cours they didn t know and of ot course Farmer Browns Brown's ro n Boy couldn't tell tel then In fact Farmer Browns Bro Boy Doy didn't tell tel anybody not een c Farmer Brown himself elf You see he didn't want to be laughed atSo atSo at atSo So he quietly got together som some seeds and waited tor for planting time And all the time he kept think think- thinking thinking ing Ins how delighted Johnny and Folly Chu Chuck l would be It will be the first garden the they have e eer ever er had planted just for them though he It will be the first time the they have hate ever t had such things to eat without stealing them They probably Wilt will think the aro ara them tilts this time but they 1 wont won't ont be 1 I guess I will add a few cabbage plants though I don t suppo suppose e 11 II let them get big enough to amount to an thing Anyway they will give them a taste I ju just t know that thos Chucks and I are going to be grea great tr before the summer is over o Copyright 1923 1323 by T W Burgess Durgess I The next net stor slon The The Chucks IHa e I Ha Hav e Neighbors |