Show t I HEDDY'S SUDDEN S X Ur ny nr W BURGESS Surprising tin tie and passing strange How fickle fortune torture loves to a Q change Old Old Mother Nature Nanny Meadow Mouse l n died ot of o fright Anyway she he thought she abc ho did which I amounts to the tho same Barno thing First Peter Peler Rabbit had raced past her hr then almost at Peters Peter's t Reddy Heddy Fox Sad iad raced past and so close had ho he passed that lila ills big busby tall tail had touched Na Nanny ny It was as al all over o In an in- in instant In Instant stant stant It t was aU all al over almost be- be be before fore fere Nanny fanny realized ltd hap hap- happened ened When slid did realize that l eddy Fox had passed so to her her without discovering her Ier sh she gave just the the th tiniest sIgh of thankfulness Then as ehe ho he recovered 1 red ered from her flight she hc once more thought ot or Peter Rabbit Peter Oh run run Peter do run she kept saying over and over oyer to Just as If It she th gut bt bt eter etel hear But But no one needed to tell Peter torun to run The To way ho he was bounding niong over the snow sn snow w perty was wonderful to sec ee But nut It was just as wonderful to I see how swiftly Reddy Fox was running r behind Peter Ninny Nanny watched them disappear in the dl- dl di direction of ot Farmer Browns Brown's barn barn- barnyard barnyard yard ard She h hoped pel bat liat Peter would fInd a hiding place over there theae there here here Reddy neddy could not get at him hint All Alt of ot a sudden there was a 0 tre- tre tremendous tremendous tre tremendous noise over In Farmer Jarmer Drowns Drown's barnyard Tow Dow wow wow tow wow wow roared a great voice alee it as a the tho voice of Dowser Bowser the Hound She wondered what It But she didn't have time timeto timeto to do much It was only a moment or two before ap- ap ap appeared once more Reddy neddy was run run- run rills ring even faster taster than he be ran when she saw him last Once more moro he was headed straight for or her But this time Nanny didn't fear tear hint him She didn't have time to fear hint him lIe He went pa past t her running as only ol Reddy Peddy can run A A moment later Dowser the Hound passed Bowser BowKer would put his nose down to the snow where Reddy had been then lift his head and his great grent voice would ring out In no time at all Heddy had disappeared with Howser after art r him But Dowsers Dowser's oice olce could t be heard and In It there thero wa wa- wa waa vaa a joyous ous note It was clear that Dowser Bowser was enjoying that chase of o Reddy As a matter of fact Redd Reddy would have enjoyed It II too had It not been that ho he was hungry There are arc times when I could not possibly po go now Well Veil Im I'm sure Mrs Mr Prescott I think it just as well youre you're not coming Were We're ere all at such a high tension of ot nerves that Im I'm In- In in inclined dined to to think the whole so- so sequence sequence quence wIb will wI b bea a o liis-o O A e I r called you up to tell you I shall not bt be b able ahle to see you again it t f you did not come cometo cometo cometo to the tho mill the morning as I ex- ex expected ex expected Copyright 1 0 26 2 6 S NEA Service Inc TOMORROW TO This con atlon continued Fox enjoys being chased by This didn't happen to he be one of those times time und and nedd Reddy Mas as ta even ern faster titan lie he ran t she saw AW t an bins l m last was feeling quite upset He Ic was feeling the more m re so because he I had been right at Peter Rabbits Rabbit's 1 heis ela when Bowser Dowser Interfered This would hav ha have been bad enough had hadIt hadit hadit I It been mere chance but Reddy knew it wasn't lIe Ho knew that Rabbit had deliberately run almost in to Bowser's Dowsers house housand ard had done dono It so that Bowser Boser would bo be sure to see Heddy I My said Nanny to herself thIs Is a Q most exciting night I Iwonder Iwonder wonder what will happen next I Ito to wish Spooky the Screech Ow Owl would gO ro away alvay VAY Just then way over in the old or- or orchard or orchard chard on the other side of ot arner Browns Brown's house she sho heard the voice rf cf Spooky She knew then that he had Jud left that tree without her knowing It With a little sigh of pure thankfulness Nanny stretched and then darted away from that tree and d because she felt tet quite that It was tho the safest dl- dl dl In which to go she headed t ward Farmer Browns Brown's barnyard l She felt that it was the safest di dl direction because Dowser Bowser the hound had just chased Reddy Fox from there and he ho had made male such II a anoise noise about it that she was sure arc no other enemies would be b likely to be beabout beabout about Besides she had an idea that somewhere up jn In that direction direction direction tion Danny Meadow Mouse had gon when Black Pussy chased hint am out from under the porch at Farmer Browns Brown's house Copyright 1926 by T W Burgess Burgess Bur- Bur gess 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