Show I sJ I IAn BROWNS BROWN'S BOY Dy By V THOn W BURGESS Patience often will attain What nothing nothing- else could ever gain Farmer Farmer Browns Brown's Day Former Farmer Browns Brown's Boy Day had lost loot lo three pigeons pigeon Loch Bach one had been taken In mid air In full flight light At first he ho had not known Just who ho It was who ho was carrying away awny these pigeons pigeon He had known It tt was WIlS a m member of ot the hawk family but It ass S I a hawk k he had never recognized recognized Now he knew who It wu was wasHa lie He knew It was Killer the Duck Hawk who really Is la a falcon lie He remembered having read rend how In theold theold the old days das In England and France a favorite sport of kings and nobles had hod been hunting by means mean or of o ral- ral fal falcons cons and hero was WIlS a bird closely feInted to those thoS falcons falcone that had bern been used In this royal roal sport port lf H knew It for a comparatively Tar rare bird and for that reason he h hod no desire to lo get his terrible gun and shoot It I I suspect muttered Farmer Jo-armer Browns Brown's Boy as ns ho watched EtHer rapIdly disappearing with 1 Ith the tho third that you have hae a nest neat some some- somewhere somewhere where whre over on the Dig Big Mountain and that thai my pigeons are ore going to reed feed your you young II I should like to rind find that nest I belt believe ve tomorrow I II take tako a day oft off and look for tor It It So on the morrow with a 0 lunch In his p pocket Farmer Browns Brown's Boy darted for the bo Big Mountain 0 Now on one side of the Big Mountain a series serle or of o le ledges gf'S of sheer rock ros rose abruptly It was as for th these s ledges that Former Farmer Browns Brown's Boy headed for he knew that If Ir Killer had a anest anest I nest neet on the Big Mountain It would be on a ledge of or rock a ledge wl leh very likely could not be climbed to So Farmer Browns Brown's rown's Boy worked along through the vat val valley ley icy on the side elle of the ledges and then began slowly To climb th the mountain All 11 the time h he kept looking up He lie was perhaps half halt way up to the tho foot of at the tho ledge when he heard the tho cry of a hawk In a mo- mo moment moment mo moment ment he heard hearl the cry of another I Looking up he saw circling high I In the air two tao hawks One of o them he reco recognized at once as Killer H lie knew the other ether was Killers Killer's mate He sat down to watch them It was then that he discovered that even high In the airas th the two t I great Ireat birds binis were there was a dis- dis distinct dis distinct difference Mrs lIra Killer Was noticeably larger than Killer Ether Also her wings were different Killers Killer's wings were narrower enough dif different ferent from those of his mate male to distinguish his even en at a great Ireat eight After a 0 while both birds disappeared Then Farmer Browns Brown's Day Boy began his upward climb again U E T I p Ix row Ill I'll take a 11 WIT day oU off and look for tor It Almost at t once he lie heard the screams of o the tho Duck Hawks and anI again ho he saw them then In the air lie He knew that their I keen e n eyes eyel h had d dis- dis discovered discovered dis discovered covered him the moment he m moved vod It was stow slow work and hard work climbing UI ur toward the Ito foot of those ledges At last ho reached a place place where ho could look along time the entire face or of o the cliff The hawks were still In the air Ho lie sat down and remained motionless By and b by Mrs Irs Duck Hawk still sUIl screaming flew over o to a jutting bit of o rock n the base of the cliff and perched ched there thre Later she SS joined by Killer himself Still Farmer Browns Brown's Boy did not move After Acter a while Mrs Duck Hawk flew out circled two or three time and finally dropped down on a 0 tiny o of rol rock and disappeared Then alt All was quiet Farmer Browns Brown's Boy knew that on that tiny ledge ledl which really was nothing but a little shelf the lie nest would be found The lit lit- little littie lit little tle tie shelf shelt looked as If It It might be climbed to and this was more more than he had expected Copyright im F W VP Burgess The next story The Edge of the arid |