Show j e 1 BEnny REDDY DOES SOME OIE SPYING By y W BURGESS S Who by his appetite Is ruled To cope with lIh life lICe Is poorly schooled ReddY Fox ox What Reddy means Is that on-e on one should always rule his appetite and not be ruled by It He lie its Is entirely right In this matter malter But that appetite Is its a splendid sharp sharp- sharpener sharpener ener of wits Reddy would be one ot of the first to ad admit mil You know that Reddy Is famous lamous for tor hits his I wits an and one reason the they are so sharp Is b an appetite which Is almo almost t never wholly satisfied When Reddy Heddy Fox dl discovered cred co th that t the babies of DC o the Great I Horned Homed oft Oi OR I were being led fed chIcken while he himself was hay hay- hav having In ing hard work ork to get enough to i eat he ho was at first st je Jealously louly an on an- an angry angry gry Then his wits wit Its began to work lie He was smart enough to know that jealousy and anger wouldn't get him hint anywhere I should like to know Inow where Booty or Mrs got th that t chicken thought Reddy 1 should like to know whose hen hen- henyard henyard yard hen yard they have visited d It if they can get chickens I ought to be beable beable beable able to ot Of 0 course they have ha the he advantage ot of o me mo In ha that f dont don't bother them They can drop down Into a henyard frona above e But perhaps they have bavo found Cound a 0 place where the hens nr are not shut sh up Ill I'll watch and see In which direction they fly ly But neither Booty nor Mrs Mra Booty seemed inclined to fly Cly You see ce they had been hunting long I and hard and they were tired N Now ow that tile thc they had plenty for tor the babies at present they decided to rest reat Redd Reddy was impatient but long ago ho he learned that Impatience ence once seldom gets him laina anything So Reddy Heddy la lay down where he could watch Mr and Mrs up In Inthe inthe Inthe the trees He lIe felt sure they hadn't soon him It was a long watch nd a a most tantalizing one You see aee every ery now and then a Mer Iler- Mer- Mer Merry Merry ry Little Bretz would dance danco Uon along suit blo blow blew down dOn Mm oms om feath- feath f or ath-or orb Ill Ju Just l seeing those thos feathers aruM ato l 8 l and anti then off ott In direction Hoot Booty load hail taken made Reddy so hungry that It seemed to him lie te Ie just couldn't keep still But nut he did and In the end he was rewarded He Ho saw Booty ly fly flyaway Away In la a certain direction and he knew b by the way In which he flew lew th that t was IS headed for Cor a particular place Ordinarily Booty would fly ly to one of ot his hl favorite watch towers and there sit sit lt every ery once In a a while hooting booting to frighten any of oC the little people who might ht be bc near at at ot hand This Is his hI Ia- Ia fa favorite tonic trick By sud suddenly and very loud he Jle startles the lit lit- little littie lit little tle tie feathered and furred folk tolk who may be near by They rhey they are very cry apt to move ever so 0 little and his Ills wonderful ears catch the faint sounds which tells where they are But Bul this time Booty Hooly was not headed toward any of ot his favorite watch towers toners He lie was Willi flying In a a very determined way and In a way which Indicated that he was Wall going some distance Reddy arose yawned and then trotted oft off In th the direction Booty had taken Already ho he guessed berA Booty was bound tot tOI or You Youe see e Reddy knows all the country for I a long distance around HI Be knows exactly where here every v ry farm arm is III and where here each Cach build building In Is So be he knew by the tha Booty Hoot had taken that he wu was wa heading to- to toward toward to toward ward a R certain farm larm some lome dIs- dIs dis distance tance tanco away anay It was wal hats lat In the afternoon almost dusk Those chickens ought to be shut up by the time lime he gets gelS ther thought Reddy Heddy as he trot trot- trotted trotted ted along lie Ho probably got that chicken this morning when the hena were first let out Ito He doesn't know much about hens h ns or he wouldn't be fooling tooling aro around nd over there now It will bo be dark by the time tune he uti there and they will have C all Ion gone to bed I 1 think Ill I'll keep on over o there just the saute though for lor it may be bc bethere bethere there In hs a atay a tay aPay Into that lien hen henhouse house It I Is I a 0 a long time Inco Ive I've been over thero there a very vory long longtime longtime time lime In fact tact IlIad I had bad quite for forgotten gotten gotton those liens heni I am much obliged to Booty for tor reminding me or of them Copyright HIT by T W a |