| Show I BURGESS I I STORIES i I I TilE MiDNIGHT lT SCARE Ily By T TO TOW ii W BURGESS I j How silly tie Us that In the he night nightA nl htA I A little noise nole fright I Farmer Drowns Irowna Do Boy I Farmer Browns Brown's Coy Doy to Down sOil ami Mother r Brown were I greatly pleased by time the smartness or Mrs OIls Skunk In slamming time the screen door when she wanted to attract their attention Jimmy Skunk had not flOt learned this clev clever or er trick but Mrs Jimmy had learned It by accident Sh bad llad happened to eat catch h a claw In Iii the screen and amid pull pUI the tho door open a little Va way It had swung back backwith buckwith with a bang bauI and Anel at once oneo one Moth loth Mother er Cr Brown Bro lied had come coins coin to see what It meant After ACter tl that t Mrs Jimmy the tho samo same timing thing when whenever ver she else como canto up to the tho house homo and found no food waiting for her or Of 0 course you ou can guess xu ss that Farmer owns Browns Boy took pains to see that no food was put out for Mrs III's Jimmy Ho He It liked to hear her bang bane the door After she h had banged It two 0 or thre times he le would go so to the tile door amid Invite In her In Inside lie he h ai- ai Al ci Always ways was had hael a pia plato te ot or rood food a await await- walt lug Ing her Hl friends used to come up to the th house just Ju t to see Bee ee Mrs Irs Jimmy do that little trick for roro of oC course he h had d told Cr c body abOut It One On night t Farmer larmet Brown Do toy wait awakened a How long ho he had been lIeen asleep ho lie didn't t know Iwo but It seemed to hint him that It must be In the middle of ot the night nights As s a matter a tact fact o f-o tact It was Vas It WAS s R a little lIIlIe later latem than tho the middle A tI I Is L h Vt VL L tv in III mn caned called the tho wee mum sma hours or of orthe the night A sudden noise had awakened him It had hael been so sudden that Farmer Brown Browns Brown's Boy had sat nat right up In bed beil and his eyes had flown n wIde wido open op n w at was ms-as that thai T he lie le muttered end Anel lien ho he listened with both ears can All was still You know how very Cry still It can be In the th mid mid- middle mid middie die dle of ot the night That Is the imay ay It was AS then Farmer Browns Brown's rown's Boy could focI tori his heart thump thump- thumpIng log Ing all as s ho lIe sat Int there hero listening Then with startling suddenness a adoor adoor loom door banged In the stillness or of orthe the night It sounded very loud Indeed What could It meanT mean Son called Farmer Bro BrowS It are you up No 0 replied I Farmer Browns Brown's Boy Doy Did you OU ou hear that noise T Before Farmer armet Brown n could re- re reply re reply ply there ther wee wail was that bang of or a door again It made mado Farmer Browns Brown's toy Doy jump Its It's It queer how much louder things sound In the night nl than In tho daytime That was a the th back screen n door said Farmer Farina Brown I 1 1 dont don't s see lICe how it could have been said laid l Farmer armer Drowns Drown's Day Boy There Isn't any wind Bang Ban Thu This time timo there hero was 8 no doubt about It It wall wa was that t door What Shat hat was as that lie he muttered 1 and then listened wills lIh both earn cart Run nUI down Son and nel see lice what whal ails that door said Farmer Brown Slowly Farmer Browns Brown's Boy got gol out of oC o bed Slowly ho bo went down down- downstairs downstairs stairs He tic wouldn't have e admit admit- ninth admitted ted led that ha ho was afraid No siree he wouldn't have base admitted it II But there ther was sOmething sOmething- queer about that door slamming at that hour of the night and with no wind Somehow or other Farmer Browns Brown's Boy wasn't a bit enthus enthusiastic about going down dow to time the back door lie Ite lighted a lamp SlowlY JIO jie he unlocked and end opened tho th kitchen door the tho door dOOl Into the tho shod sited Just u as a lie be did so the Screen door on once one co moro more slammed almost In his face Its It's a wonder that lint Farmer Browns Brown's Boy Doy didn't drop that lamp Dut But he ho didn't Ho JIo held It ita Ita a 0 little hIgher What hat lIe ho saw laW caused him to almost drop that lam 1 again only this time timo from Iro toni surprise There looking uI up at him were wore JImmy my Skunk Mrs Is and ho hmo bG six young oung Skunks They rhey were all looking at lit him In Inthe the most mont reproachful way WILl You see sec v th the Skunk C family Is Is Ii out at night more moro than tImers by du day rhe They atI I had become hungry and anel so ao they had at once of oC o Farmer Browns Brown's house Finding nothing to cat out In the shed shod Mrs Jimmy I tried slamming tho the door Farmer Browns Brown's Boy was wall pro pro- pro pro I yoked At time the he lie en en joyed Joed the llio joke Jo So he ho hunted about In the tho pantry until he found f something for tor his ond binck gUests which ho lie put out In iii the shed Then ho lie hooked that screen door Thereafter that screen door vas door was WI hooked every night Copyright 1921 1827 1 27 by T W ICH Burgess Durren The rhe next story Mr Ir and Mrs Grouse Como Conic Building |
