Show fl g l THE TIlE QUEER By W To TD be sure sure Is most unwise And nd sometimes leads heads to a surprise Old Oid Old Mother Nature noddy neddy Fox often met Jimmy Skunk on the beach They were ere very good friends You see there thero was plenty to cat eat so there was no slon occasion to quarrel over fool Now and then I hey would find find 1 a dead fish washed up on the shore which was big bis enough for tor a whole party So It happened that they often dined together Early one morning just after sunrise when the tide was way out Reddy neddy was exploring down near the waters water's edge There had beena been a heavy storm a day or two before and 2nd many things had been washed up on the beach Reddy discovered that Jimmy was before him Jim Jim- Jimmy Jimmy Jim Jimmy my was wa about something black at the waters water's edge and Red fled Reddy dy went over to see what it was He hooke looked at It curiously It ap- ap appeared appeared ap appeared to him to be bo nothing but a queer rock Part of or It was smooth and attached to this and ana as ho supposed a n part of It were a num num- number nuin- nuin number ber of queer projections Some were small and some were nearly as big bic as a n mans man's hand They were very roush a 0 queer looking rock said Reddy neddy What are you OU about that for Jimmys Jimmy's eyes twinkled Just wishing that one of these there fellows would open just long enough for tor me mc meto meto to 10 scoop him out said laid he neddy looked hooked all about curious curious- curiously curiously Li ly What fellows he ho demanded I dont don't see anything that could open around here Jimmy put a n paw on one of the rough pieces of or the tho queer looking rock One of these he nothing but a piece e or of roce rock said Heddy Jimmys Jimmy's eyes twinkled more more than ever Guess again aln said he isn't a rock Its It's It an oyster an nn oyster grunted neddy Red dr An oyster replied Jimmy Is laan an appetizer You eat one on and It I gives you an appetite Huh I sniffed Reddy neddy I dont don't Y SiS a looking s rock rod sad ld Irod Reddy base haic ha C to 10 eat cat any any oyster to give iv mo me moan an appetite But Cut how do you eat cat eata oata o a think thing like that You dont don't the way It Is replied Jimmy any more than you oat eat a clam clani with v the tho shells closed Thin fellow I is just like a n clam elam and has two halves to Its ita shell It If If you OU are I lucky enough to find one open op-n and can scoop the oyster oster out efOro It itcan Itcan I can nn close the shell youve you've got some some- something something thing better than a clam But Dut there 1111 mill a n chance chanc when the oysters l are nrc shut up the wa way these arc are You see all alt these th ao oysters became at- at attached at attached 1 to this atone Stone when they I at-I were tiny and they've grown up together In a n bunch They do that i I 1 suppose that storm I washed them up here Its It's tan That's what it la is In ing tal-I tal Reddy neddy poked the oysters over lIe He couldn't Imagine anybody succeeding In openinG those shells I suppose saId aid he that those oysters are arc just jupt about as n safe as anybody could be I dont don't suppose that they havo have any enemies that they ned n ed fear at all Look at that queer thing down there n the wa- wa water wa water va- va vater ter Jimmy Jimmy looked Just beyond yond and they coul could look right down Into It was a pool 1001 of water on the bottom of or which lay two or three A bl big bis starfish was rioe to starfIsh fish one of these theao oysters The star star- fIsh was the queer thing Reddy neddy had seen Slen 19 1926 l t 6 T W Burgess The next I story tory Red Reddy d and Jim Jim- Jimmy Jimmy Jim Jimmy my See an Oyster Opened |