Show v I j I SIRS MRS REDDY DOESN'T BELIEVE DELlEE RED REDDY Dy Dr Th Thornton IV Burgess The truth some folk Just wont won't won receive Because forsooth they cant can't be lIeve Old Old Mother lother Nature It really Is that way sometimes Things are EO so difficult to believe that people simply wont won't believe them Perhaps you ou know how that Is You may want to be- be believe be lieve but the tho thIn thing you v want nan ant antto to believe so impossible that you cant can't believe bellove reddy Redd Fox found It that way with Mrs Reddy when he told her what he had seen lIeen over In th the Green Creen For For- Forest est Cat It had not taken noddy Reddy very ver long to get et Bowser the Hound so 10 puzzled that he finally gave ave up u and went home to Farmer Drown Brown You see aee Reddy Peddy had hai gone KOne straight to the Laughing Laughin Brook run for tor some distance In Inthe li th the water Jumped to the top ot of otan o an old on the tho bank ot of o the th Laughing Brook and from there Jumped as far tar as he could In Inthis Inthis this way he had broken his trail Dowser simply could n not t find that again Then Reddy had hurried as liS fast as his legs ies could take him back to the bl big hemlock tree tre where here he h had seen cen the stranger hut But Gray Fox the tho stranger was wano no longer there Prickly PorkY was still up In the tree iree lie He paId pal no attention to Reddy so Reddi Reddy could find out nothing from him I After Arter a white while ho discovered the th scent of Gray Fox ox so he knew knevi that he had come down out of the thi tree But the scent was wu so 80 o old by this time that Reddi Redd decided It was not worth while white to try to toll follow ow It it Instead he hurried home to tell Mrs Mr Redd Roddy Sty My dear my dear I have the th strangest eat news newl In the world for you said Reddy Fox to Mrs Reddy What la Is It asked eked Mr Mn frs Red fled Reddy Red dy ly We e have a cousin over In the Green Greim Forest said Reddy Mrs Redd sniffed Huh I 1 that your news said eald she he I 1 knew that lone lont ago Everybody knows It It Its It's the talk o of the th Green Creen Forest and the Green Mea flea Meadows dow dows But But this cousin wears a a gray ray coat continued Reddy not at atall atau atall all au disturbed He wear ware w a gray coat with red trimmings trimming Sirs firs Reddy began to look Inter Inter- It cant can't b b a as handsome 1 I 2 31 1 r dear my mt dear I 1 have havo the strangest news In the orld orld for tor us as our coats said she he turning up her nose No said Redd Roddy It Isn't But ButI Buthis I this Is I the real news s This cousin ot of ours climbs trees Mrs Reddy turned and looked very hard at Reddy I dont don't believe It It she he declared I 1 dont don't bellevo a word of 01 It Its true just Juat the same cried Reddy I 1 dont don't care whether you believe It or not it Ita true I saw him myself way ay up In the tho th big bl hemlock tree Mrs Irs Reddy sniffed again That Thill story may go with some folks but It wont won't go 10 with me said she ehe sh I dont don't know what I Is the milt mat matter matter ter with your eyes but something Is wrong with Ith ith them You need nee not tell me no that there Is Ii any Fox that climbs tree trees Of Ot course you and I 1 Jump up in a tree tre sometimes but that Isn't Int climb climb- climbIng climbIng Ing This fellow tellow was will way ay up hl high h persisted Reddy Peddy Bowser the Hound was at the bottom of or the tree barking at Mm JIm Probably It was Bobby Coon up there retorted Mrs Reddy Ive Ie got to sec see him climb a tree before Ill I'll believe any such auch story as that Copyright 1926 1126 la 2 6 by by T W Burgess The next story atory Seeing Is Be- Be Believing lieving |