Show I TWO FIERCE U N HUNTERS MEET By THORNTON W SURGES BURGESS The wise wile wl will ne neer ne'er r be b overbold If they desire delre to grow irow old Teeny Teeny the th Shrew It was as cold Yes Yea sir air It was waa wa cold cod Everybody said ald so o 0 Nobody wu was wa doing much sitting around Everybody kept moving in order oder t Is to keep wa warm m It was Wal wasso wa so 0 o cold that It didn't seem aj a If It such sucha a tiny lIny fellow tellow as aa Teeny the Shrew could stand aland It at all But Dut u as ua asa aa a matter of tact fact Teen Teeny wan wasn t I minding It n a bit He H was wa out huntIng and ho he h wasn't wasting waUng w a minute YO n never ver will find Teeny Veeny sitting silting about hugging himself and complaIn complaIn- complaInIng complaIning Inc Ing because bream It Is cold Now Kow over In the tho Green Forest Foret an another an- an another other hunter had started forth to boa 1001 I for a breakfast breakfast- This hunter was WaR big big- bic oh ger-oh oh very much bigger bitter than Teeny leeny Veeny but even een so he h was a a small all person Unlike Teeny T Veeny he h had I perfectly good tood eyes lie He II had good eyes good food ears ear and a good nose nor and not even Teeny Veeny was quicker In InI I hi his movements He H was slim and and he be h wore a coat as white whit as a ene snow now The Th tip of hi his tall tail wa was black but otherwise he h was pure PUT white whit 0 Of course coune e you know who he was wan He H 15 was Shadow the th Weasel Shadow was wu running lightly over the snow now and trying to make mah up his mino Jut I what n he 5 would like like bet best tor for break break- n fast u A A c fat i H Wood To Zi Mouse U ue w would l d tasi tast good muttered Shadow but a flab flab- Rab Rabbit bit hit would taste tast better bettel I wonder Il II Peter Il Is Ie I over here her this mOrning or It if he h Iou has ha gone rone eon back to the th dear Briar Patch I suppose he h ha has gone back If It It were not so 0 tar far over there i J I would pay him a a visit but I am nut hungry enough to go eo way over thero and perhaps not find him at home hom 1 will look around here hore her first II DIJ DidI I see lee e something move moe Shadow stopped abruptly and sat up Tou know he be h does sit It up In just jut Use ITI same am way that Peter Rabbit does docs lie He sat at up that he might look around bet bee better beeter ter bei-ter ter He was just Jut In Hi time to see ee sc some some- something som thing vanish behind the th trunk ot of a tree ln Instantly Shadow bounded to- to toward to toward ward wind an old stump He H got only IL a glimpse ot of It I I wonder It that was wa-s wasa wasa a young yount Mouse Mou-ie thought he nJ l bounded after It It By the th time he h reached the old od stump no one wu was wa to be b seen een Shadow started around the th old stump tump Hatway way around ho he h came cam face fac to face wilts who who do you yoa OU think It wa was Teeny the th Shrew Now Kow had It bees been anybody but Teeny Veeny Shadow wouldn't have hav hesitated a second lie would have hav sprung prun r quicker than you could catch your breath But Teeny Veeny wa was different Shadow COUld think ot of many things that he h like better bettor for tor breakfast than teeny Veeny You see ee Teeny Tony Veen rs is MIn In a a small way like Jimmy Skunk he carries with him a very ery disagree disagree- disagreeable abl able perfume It Is I apt to spoil appetite of even ven a very hungry per per- person per person I son So shadow hadow hesitated Now Teeny Veeny didn't see aee Shad Shad- Shadow Shadow ow Even Een Ev n had Shadow been n dressed In own lA-own instead of pure pur white Teoy Teety wouldn't have hav seen him Ills for tor t I eye eyes y s were not good lood enough But his hi ears or his nose or both together told him of Shadow presence a as quickly as Shadow a s eyes had bad told 1011 him of Teeny leeny pros pre ence ce Teeny t didn-t hesitate He didn't hesitate the tho th tiniest I pirt lirt rl or ora 0 a second lie He waS w s there and then he be wasn't there Had you been wat wal un ung him It would have h seemed to you as asIf asIt It If he be h had vanished by magic But to Shadow the th Weasel there was wag no maglo maclaIn In that disappearance Shado eyes bee became me red With just the faintest Of snarls he h sprang prang print But he hc wu was wa too loo ate there was no Teeny Wo ny there There wa was only a little hole holo hoi In no cruet of ot snow snow-a snow now little hole hoi leading 1 He H wa was Just In time to f see lee something vanish behind the th hunk of f a I tree down Iown under that old stump tump Slim as Shadow Is la that hole hoi was waa too sma small II for tor him want want I didn't want Shrew for breakfast anyway anway muttered Shadow and start start- started started start started ed on Copyright 1926 by T W Burgess I The Th next story tory Chatterer Loses His Voice |