Show J SEEING IS BELIEVING G Dy Thornton W IV Of Ot course Ill I'll believe belle when I can FeeA seeA see Fee seeA A Fox h has s s really climbed a 11 trees tree Irs Mrs Reddy tem ReM Reddy Fox Imo Almost t l lost st his tem per Ier u because o Mrs Reddy wouldn't believe the tho story lie be had told her of a strange Fox high up in a tree Yes air Reddy almost lost hit his temper You know it Is very provoking to have hare refuse to believe what you tell them when OU know positively that it Is true But all Reddy's talking wee was wasla In yam vain Mrs Irs Reddy Roddy never had heard ot of a Fox ox climbing a tree I and she he simply elm ply refused to believe that any Fox Foa h had done such auch a athin athing athin I I II thin thing I Ill Til believe It when I sec e It I said she ehe and not before But Dut though Mrs Airs Reddy Roddy refused to believe her curiosity wa was very Ito much aroused She knew by the way Reddy acted that ho really hail had seen something out of the i usual She She even suspected that Reddy really believed belle his own on stor alor So Sirs Mrs rr Reddy began ren spend spend- log Ins a groat GNat dent deal of ot time lime In the Green Forest looking for that She Silo heard of him often otten Sammy Jay told her about him So did Blacky the Crow She wanted anted to ask them It if they had seen lIeen the stranger in a tree but she couldn't bring herself to do It No sir Ir she couldn't bring her her- her IOU to the tho point of asking I If they hail had seen that stranger In a tree I You see lice she ehe didn't want to be laughed at She was sure that they would laugh at her her- herfor for tor ask ask- askIng asking ask asking ing such a question So she con con- contented contented con contented tented herself with making sure th that there really was a strange I Fox and that thir this Fox Foi wore ore a gray eray coat In Instead of a red rod coat Now Mrs Reddy Is Ia quite quile as smart a aa Reddy himself and Red lied Reddy Reddy dy Is one of the smartest of all the little lIlUe people In the Green For est eat and on the Green Meadows It seemed as It if anyone so ao smart ought to be able to find that but somehow Mrs Irs Reddy i r k t J I H Mes remained l t Perfectly still peeping pct J around the oil stump continually missed him hum Time and again sh ah she found Cound where he had bad been but she he he was always just too toolate toolate toolate late Still she Iho persisted You see lee Reddy still Insisted that It all true truo about the stranger climb climb- climbing climbing ing log a tree At lest lut l st ono one daY day d y Mrs ReddY found tho the strangers stranger's trail and thIS the th scent we wai WILS so strong elrona that she kneW ho he had lied passed only a few tew minutes before Mrs Reddy followed swift swift- swiftly Iy ly This time lima she hoped to at least see the tho stranger Luck Luek was was with her A As she sho peeked around n an anold anold old stump she ahe saw standing out In a little open space looking lookingback lookingback back baek as al It If he ha suspected he was wae being belne followed Gray Fox himself himself- He Ha was 1151 about the tha size Ize of ot ReddY Fox but hillers his legs were longer and he was WAl a little moro more slender der His tall was w s not nearly as s handsome SI as Roddy's Reldy's or as aa her own on ills His coat was Will gray Iray trimmed with red ed across the tha breast and he ha was red redon redon redon on the tha sides ot of o his neck There was also red on his hla hi legs leIs But Dut ata asa as at a whole he be looked gray eray and this w was why he had the name ot of Gray Oray Fo Fox the Woods Fox Mrs Reddy floddy remained perfectly still peeping around the tha old stump tump Gray Fox didn't sea see her herbut but It was WILl clear that he lie win was un Un- Un Uneasy un-euy un easy euy and suspected that somebody was following him After Atter a me- me mo moment ment rilent or two he turned and light II lightly ly Iy bound id away Instantly Mrs Irs Heddy followed him She Sha found that Gra Gray Fox was a n fast Cast runner Mrs Reddy Is a taut fut runner her her her- herself self her self You kno know before she sho was WU tr Mrs Reddy she he was Miss Swift Swift- Swift foot toot toot Presently she ahe caught a glimpse of Gray Fox ahead of o her He disappeared behind a little hem hem- hemlock lock hock tree Mrs Reddy hurried l lI I taster faster than ever but when she shO sheI I peeked around that little hemlock tree Gray Fox was waa nowhere to be seen Yet she sho could sea see nothing behind which ha lie 11 could be hiding If ever there was a puzzled Fox It was wu Mrs frs Reddy She sat gat down n with her bead head on one ono side to study things thing out A it bit till of bark barIc dropped from front a p tree Just In front ot of her She looked hooked up Thereas There was Gray Oray Fox loox halt half way up Ul that tree How Mr Mrs o Irl Reddy did stare ure Reddy told the truth she mut muttered to no one ono In Yes sir lr Reddy told the truth Copyright 1926 by T W But Bur Bur gos ge gess The next story Gray Fox Is Timid 00 TOM b bg A Wonder It If these those men who In- In Invent In Invent vent windshield wipers could invent In Invent vent some Borne kind of an automatIc handkerchief 1 Th They y bad had a tornado In ia florida Very little damage was wai done but It was wu quite a blow to the people Turkey has raised the tariff bar on American goods so no now we can ship he her some genuine Turkish In Denver Cob Colo a girl shot hot up three robbers She will make some ome man a fine tine husband New York musician says musIc Is the audible pod god Perhaps It ItI itis I is but some sonic of ot It Bounds sounds like the tho devil Perhaps women n look Into mir mir- mirrors mir mirrors more often otten than men be because cause they never nc find Ind they need a a I shave Dont Don't teach the baby to wave at people The Tho little fellow is II liable to grow up and become a traffic cop Copyright 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