Show I QUEER SWIMMERS rEnS By Thornton IV W Burgess The Ignorant say things arent aren't so soTha The wise man always wants to t know Old Old Mother Nature r Reddy Fox found Cound all kind kinds of oC Interesting things along the sea sea- seashore seashore shore Live and learn hit l would Say lay live and learn I can believe almost anything sh since co IVL I canI learned that a lobster can get out ot of that hard shell ot of his There certainly Is a lot to see here along the seashore Now I wonder why wh I never find any of ot tho the owners ot of these shells In III the sand or mud like the clams They look to mo me melike like 0 the shells ot of o very fancy fane clams Reddy was WIlS looking down at a ashell ishell shell which was almost round excepting at the place where it should have been hinged to an- an another another another other shell just like It It At that point were two little wings This shell had pretty little scallops but look as he would Reddy Redd couldn't find anything but half shells Ill have havo to ask Darker Barker the Seal about these thought Reddy y As usual Barker Darker was WIlS sitting on his favorite rock very close to the th shore Reddy trotted over there carrying one of ot these shells In his mouth Hello Neighbor Fox What have havo you there Inquired Barker Its SIts a shell said Reddy neddy I 1 have have ha found ever so many of thue thc shells but I never havo have found Cound one with anything in it Where have you OU looked In- In Inquired in Barker Everywhere replied Reddy Excepting In the water said fd Darker chuckling again They look to me mo like some somo kind of ot a clam and clams are usually In the tho mud or sand have I 1 have dug them theta up lots of times said Hed n I You wont won't dig one ono of these tel tel- fellow tellow low I up replied Barker ell I felI well well what do you know knot about that Barker was staring cut over o the water Just beyond J JI where he ha was the water was WIlS clear I and smooth and the tho bottom be- be beneath beneath ben neath ath was sandy He wu was staring lOUt out over this stretch ot of water Reddy stared too Did you see that cried Barker Did I see seo what demanded Reddy neddy who hadn't seen anything at all oil excepting the water Just watch I out there replied Barker Roddy watched He saw a lit lit- little littie lit tie tle break In the surface and then thon another and another Then Ile he h thought he saw a glimpse ot of something In the tha water which came quickly up to the top and an disappeared From he lie was wa Hello Neighbor rox roi What have ha you OU there thero inquired Barker Is he couldn't s see so e very well ell hat t is it he demanded Its a Do party of the very things youve you've been talking about They The f are having a a great time swimming Imming out there replied Barker Darker What have I been talking about demanded d Redd Reddy forget torget- forgetting ting all about his shell The owners of ot shells just like the tho one ona you have there replied Darker Those are scallops and they the certainly certaInty are queer swimmers I For Fora Foa or II a shellfish they get along pretty prett pretty fast and md easily Do you mean to tell me that they can swim cried neddy How can anything that lives In Ina Ina 1 a couple of ot shells like lIko this swim Oh they do it easily enough replied Barker They sImply simpi flap those shells like a 0 pair owings of wings They move about a good deal and that's hy you ou dont don't t find them where you ou find the clams You dont don't find tind them burying themselves In irs the mud Not much One Ono day there will ba be bea bea a great number ot of o them In here herand and the next day they will be all 1 gone Copyright lilt by T W IV Bur Bun Burgess gess The next story The Queer r Rock flock |