Show I I BURGESS BEDTIME STORIES BROWNS BROWN'S BOY DaY SAVES SAYF-S TilE TUE G GROUSE OUSE AND TUB TilE FRUIT Hy Dy lOX W tY nU BURGESS GESS You will admit Ir If you are fair That common sense Is really rare Old Old Mother West Wind Wo We hear a great Croat leal seal about com com- common corn men corn mon sense sen c but sense real sense real true sense Isn't so common after aCter all Ir I tho Hawk happens to yield to o temptation and catches a a chicken I tIn In omo farmers fanner's barnyard bar Ih the chances are aro that that farmer run runs I l for tor his sun gun c n and wants want to kill nil all I IBal l Ba s He lie never atop stops to I an and consider that has paid for or that chicken and paid a very high price qt t that by destruction of treat great numbers of ot Kisco mico which were destroying that farmers farmer 11 K crops He never stops to consid- consid r consid r 1 that other hawks hawk he shoots at may never have ha touched a chick chick- chicken chick en I en cn i Ho just lust doesn't usa common commons i sense IRe He lie e use lse atall at 11 1 all all I INow Now low there are plenty of ot farm farm-cru foam farm err erl who had they Jl I r and hire Air Irs Grouse budding Jt In one of oC their apple trees would at once c Ita Irate e wanted to kill them It wouldn't havo o occurred to them to try to find out how much real harm It any Sir Mr and Mrs Grouse wore were doing doin All they woul would have seen soen would have ha been the tho ho buds I hl h Mr and Mrs Grouse were were plc Icing kins Jut Iut farmer Browns Brown's Boy Doy Isn't like that Farmer armer Browns Brown's Boy has I real reDo I sense Ot Of course ho ha dl nt want next years year's fruit destroyed 1 by the picking of or the buds by Mr Ir and Mrs Grouse but neither dla dio dl he be beant want ant Mr Ill and an Mrs Irs Grouse de destroyed de- de destroyed strond lie He wanted the tho fruit but bul bulhe buthe buthe he wanted Mr 11 and Mrs Mra Grouse aln alne P II e too Ho was smart enough to know that It If Mr 11 and 1011 Mrs Grouse picked oft a few Cew buds here nn and n a afew I few Cew buds there It w probably I be a good thing thine There would not be as many apples opples on that tree trec next year eor but they would bo be bigger and better apples So he really didn't mind minu seeing them budding as a taking taIling those buds Is called But when the next morning he lie discovered discovered ered Bred that most mot of oC the children or of orI I Ii and Mrs Grouse children who ero now full Cull grown crown were also budling lint In tho rho Old Orchard h he rJ ld decided that something had od to bo be bodona bedone done dona about it II There were too many of them In one tree treo If It they WHO w cre allowed to eat rat their fill till ot of buds on that one tree there Would b be C test few w apples next year ear PC Se Farmer I-armer Browns Brown's Boy Doy prompt prompt- promptly promptly ly Iy went out and and- mall and drove 0 them away he ho did like to hear the tho whirr ot of their stout st wings Inga as they lieu Clew straight back to the thc Green Greet Then he went Lack bark to the barn an and I got cot a shovel With this he broke brok the tho crust and shovel shoveled d awat awa the snow for tor quite a way around that thai tree What remained he l down n Then Ihen ho brought buckwheat and spread It all around I 1 t r C 1 sated ia time Grouse Glouse and i 1 e saved cd the lie he fruit Crull cult said lie hc on Iho tho place where ho he had cleared away tho the snow and trodden it down lie He knew that those Grouse would como come back soon and Dond ho he knew that n when thy they saw laW that thai buckwheat thc they would forget all Doll about buds tor for the tho time being have hav a a feast said Farmer Browns Brown's Boy That buck buck- buckwheat buckwheat wheat will taste so good that tho those birds will go so ahead and sturt them them- themselves themselves themselves selves Yes Yla sir they wont won't know when to stop eating They'll eat cat un until they cannot f get gt t another grain erali Into their crops They'll forget all about buss bull Sure enough this is Just what happened Mr JIll and Mrs Grouse soon returned to tile the apple appi tree Locking down their bright eyes discovered ered the tha th buckwheat Down I they went and began bc an to pick It up My Iy how good It tasted I One Ona by one their children arrived and when they discovered what Mr Ir and Mrs Mra Grouse were lero eating hur- hur hurrie hurrie rie rhet to get a 0 share One Ono by one they filled their crops and when their crops crOIS were idles ono one by by one they flew Clew back to the Green For For- Forest Forest for forest est fhe They hadn't touched a x bud on one of those apple appi trees trees tree No sir they hadn't touch touched cd a single bud budon budon budon on one ot or apple trees 1 Farmer armer Browns Brown's Boy Doy chuckled Ive I've saved the Grouse and Ive I've Iv saved the tha fruit said he hc Com mon just sense en c just a I little common did did It 11 It If you OU dont don't want folks to lake take something that they thoy want just give elvo them something that thai they hey want vant more Copyright 1927 1921 1 27 1 T W Burgess The Che next t story tory Whitey the Snowy I Owl Appears 00 au |