Show l z A LOST rH P IJ Uy By W rC 5 The trapper no mercy feel fe-el ho sets sels the Iho vicious trap of steel stel Oid Oid Mother Nature A As Aa you kno know certain of ot the people of o the tha Green Forest ate hunters huntera They live almost ost wholly on smaller people of the tho Green Forest orcal and these smaller People of the Green forest orest are always in III fear of ot these thue fierce bunters hunten But Dut there is oie oe thing that Is un- un understood understood un understood among all of ot the people veople of the tile Green 1 Furest Fore t and big bigand and this Is the tha hunter bunter bunts only that he himself lf may IDay live e lie hunts hunta fairly It Is his wits against the wits ot or he seeks seeka seek It Jt Is understood among all the little people that tho price of life Is the price of constant watchfulness and end that only the smartest live which Is quite as It should be Man alone alone tm ng all the hunt bunt hunters ers ens has ever ev stooped to unfair hunting Man alone has ever act acta acta a trap Tho rap Is la unfair It ItIs Itis Itla Is a IL deadly enemy lying In wait at a n place where whore no enemy Is to tobo tobo tobo bo expected It Il 1 is merciless Jr If tt it does not kill at It once It still sUII holds on The hunters In fur and feathers kill nt itt once The steel stoel trip seldom kills So It Is that alt all the little people of ot the Green and tOe Green Meadows all the little littie people who travel up and down dOw the Laughing Brook around the Smiling Pool and along the Gre Great Gret t River look on the trapper as aa one without honor and without Justice or fairness Now Paddy the Denver Beaver Is la wise tn In the wisdom of the tho trapped and hunted The moment be he discovered that break In Sn his dam he sus suspected a hunter Until well veil Into the tho night s h-s h land and Mrs padd Paddy worked to repair that dam And An tho when the tho next day they found tt It cut open again Paddy was more suspicious than tha ever I know said aid ho Ito to Mrs 1 Paddy I 1 know what It means One of those two legged creature want ants to catch vs 18 i lIe He knows that we must rela- rela It It But what I J ace is what I I he cut that hub hole holc for tor In the tho place declared Mrs Mra Paddy What good ltd dId d dilt It do What goo good 1 can skit cs-skit it do NO good replied Paddy he be be cause he lie doesn't know that I 1 know what ha lie e Is nut ar But 1 it if young Beavers without our experience were I in III our place it might do him u great deal ol ot good You mark my Words worda my dear there thoro Is la a trap somewhere around that open open- opening tn ing md That fellow want our skins But Dut hell holl keep right on wanting So It was th that h it when Paddy an anti Mrs Mra Paddy went over to repair the second break brcak In their dam Paddy that Mrs Paddy should not come coma too close to I-to himself the tue greatest care that opening all aU over ovel A first he found nothing suspicious lie He found nothing suspicious yet he was wan all tho the time lie Ho couldn't TO It e It out of ot his head that there WM Wa a trap there thue some some- somewhere where come where Again alii he went vent around slowly carefully swimming back and lod forth In III front of that opening but taking taking- th thu greatest care not notto notto notto to step down on anything lie He was just bout t abo t to give up and decide that alter Miler all he had been lier he I i discovered cleverly at Jus just tho the point where ho lie woud bo be mOSt t likely to step ateI In repairing the hole a suspicious auspicious bit of o Iron Paddy got gol II a a stick and carefully poked It tt In lit over t that bit Lit of iron Iroll Ito Ho brought stick and the tho same taine thing l R How he worked I Presently ho he hud had that place well covered Then he lie and Mrs irs Paddy worked as aa only Beaver Dellver can work They buried burled that trap for fOI a IL trap It was where whore It coul could not 1 possibly hari harr any ore one In n fact they sprung tho the trip trap with one ulle of the sticks they were w rc ro pushing down They heaped up VP the tile and plied piled It In and racked It in lit until that rap crap was waa so 80 o deeply burled buried that their knew that lat trapper would have to cut the dal dam wide wida opell III order lo to find It again Then they filled In the Iho break In the dam danl and d but happ happy and once mOra inora IMe aCO arc they returned to their house Thu Tills time the Ht trapper did not annoy them hem tO He gate o up Perhaps It tt was because o lie he e found out that Farmer armer Browns Brown's Boy had hed d wh i ce he wax wo to todo todo todo do Anyway o u 0 11 mor or trill were le I II I got ut A tIck lId 1111 1 carefully It our ocr that th bit of iron set for Paddy and Mrs Paddy Copyright 1927 1921 by T W Burgess The next story At Home Yet Not at ionic Home |