Show I A FUNNY SURPRISE UTY P By fly D Thornton W W Burgess other people who are ore queer Than this there Is nothing more clear Reddy noddy Fox The Thc ees eyes of o Reddy neddy Fox looked as If It they were trying to pop right out ot of his head He Ito was as staring do don donn n into a 0 pool of sea WIl- WIl wa water tot tel On Ott the other side of that thaL little pool paol also looking In was wasI ln Gra the Gull Oh my good goodness I ness What hat la Is happening now exclaImed Keddy Reddy Can you ou see sea them Can you see them excited Reddy neddy was wits getting e ed Now Xo Reddy had been watch watch- watchIng watching ing leg a curious little creature call call- called called ed cd a Sea Horse Morse Of course couise It wasn't a horse at all It really eally was a fish But It had a a head shaped very much like that of ot It a horse and ond when hen it swain wnm It 11 was upright in the this water When Red Red- Reddy dy dy had first seen this curious lit lit- little littie lit little tle tie fellow he had his tall tail curled around a 11 a stem of ot grass Then he had let go of the grass and start start- started started start started ed to swim and Reddy thought he had hod never neve seen anything more Interesting In his life But the tho thing that had caused hint to exclaim was something that had happened while hile ho he was looking It was nothing more nor less leu than a funny tunny surprise party Out from that funny little fish from a big pocket had appeared dozens of tiny little things which Reddy knew without being told must be little Sea Horses They must be because they had come out of that curious pocket which the Sea Sfa Horse he had been watch watching ing leg carried Reddy thought they never would stop coming out lie II I n n I A 1 0 f Alf Alfr a r I Now Reddy had been watchIng Matching a curious JUlie called a Sea Horse llo o thought some somo omo went back In again but t 0 this ho he wasn't sure cure You Bee there were so many of o them It was waa hard work to keep kelp watch of all 31 of them They ThOY didn't look hook much like a 11 a Sea Horse but Gray wins Gray wing hastened to tell ten Reddy that they would In a a few days das Was she carrying them all the time asked Redd Reddy No she wasn't but he be was as I replied What do you mean he was demanded nedd Reddy You remember what hat you learn learn- learned learned ed cd about Pa Po In- In InI Inqui Inquired In Inquired qui red Do you remember her ber how Pa Stickleback tooM all I the care of the family Reddy nodded Yes ho he said You know mow Im I'm sorry for tor that tel tel- fellow tellow lov low Jam J am so But what has that got ot to do with Mrs hits Sea Horse HorBe I 1 Just tell you that It Isn't Mrs Sea Horse but Mr Sea SeaHorse SeaHorse torso Horse said rather rother sharply You haven't seen Mrs Sea Horse at nil That Is Mr Sea SeaHorse SeaHorse Horse down there therO You you say say are aro sorry for or Pa Po Stickleback but bul Pa Sea Horse goes Pa Stickle Stickle- Stickleback Stickleback back one better Pa Po Stickleback eback merely takes care of the eggs In Inthe inthe Inthe the the- nest but Pa Po Sea Horse car cor carries carries ries rles them around with him You s see e that pocket that all those lit t came 0 Reddy nodded Of Ot course said he Well cl said the eggs arc carried in that pocket until they hatch Ma Sea Soa Horse Ilono doesn't worry about her family any ony anymore anymore more than ofa Ma M Stickleback does about hers lers Pa Sea Horse takes all the care of the tho children Huh grunted Reddy Im glad Im I'm not a fish Oh It isn't replied Gra that way with all fishes You judge all the fishes by the Sticklebacks and Sea Horses Copyright b by T W Bur Eur- Burgess Bur Burgess gess gets The next story stor Reddy Skins Ills Nose Noll |