Show E 0 1 ti f fr 9 r hOT T TEMPERED FOLK By fly B Thornton V. AA s Who for defense Is la fully rullY armed You'll find Is h very cry seldom harmed Old Old Mother lother Nature In the Long Jong Lane leading from Farmer Browns Brown's barnyard barnard down don do n t to the tho Green Orcen Meadows and the corn corn- cornfield cornfield cornfield field live o certain little hot tern people They had been there then all nil summer At first there hat hall been only a I few of or them but each one carried a n sharp little lanc lane j They lived beside the tho road In tn i a Yellow Yellow- mossy bank They were ere jackets which you OU know kno are a a kind of Wasp Rasp Now J ow at first no one had both bothered Bred ered them and so they had both ered no one But Dut as they grew gre more more and more numerous theY began to make some trouble Twice Farmer Browns Brown's Boy was WI stung slung by them when ho he Happened to stop close beside the little hole holec In the tho ground which were the en en- entrances entrances trances to their homes Then one ono day Farmer Brown Drown drove down the Long Lane ne and Bowser Boser the Hound trotted along alonS' besides the tho wagon agon Presently Bowser Dowser ran ahead He thought he smelled smelted something up on the tho bank and as Js Ja his way he ho ran up with hi his nose to the ground He ran right over the tho homes home o or of the Yellow jackets Out they came each with his little lance ready for Cor business But Bowser Dowser had passed on and they didn't see ace him They saw Farmer Brown and his two bU bra horses who ho were ere Just passing Things ThinS's happened In the Long Lon Lane Lanel I My Sly my m my mr f I should say sa they did happen Sammy Simmy Jay saw It all and tells about It to lo this day You see those horses started al always always ll to run away Those horses ways was had been treated kindly and on 1 they didn't know what to make mak makor of or those sharp pains made by bytho bytho bythe tho the lances of or the i Farmer Drown Brown n himself fared Car d no better belter But he could pay no at- at attention attention to tt anything but those horses Such a prancing and dancing and kicking and squeal squeal- squealing squealing ing InS Such a plunging It was a wonder that that wagon upset But Dut finally Farmer Brown managed to quiet the horses and b by this time lime they had left the tha behind Farmer Brown got some mud and ind put It on the wounds w mad made By those thol e sharp shari little lances That made the horses feel better betler HJ H put ut some somo on his own on wounds too loo and ind that made him feel better belter It was after aCter dark when Farmer Drown Brown ventured to drive e back up lP the he Long Lane The had laJ all gong gone to bed bed- There was rl i 4 fri friL t L b fA Ill They lived heed beside tho the road rod In a 11 mossy mo r bank blink no more mor trouble but he knew that there was waa likely to be trouble whenever Vo any one ono passed that way Well have to lo smoke them theist out said Farmer I Brown Drown Well Yel have havo to 10 go so down don there t and smoke them out Now some one besides Sammy Jay had seen all that had hap hap- That some some- someone one was Jimmy Skunk Jimmy had been taking a nap hidden In the thick busho bushes that grew beside the Long Lase Of or course he ho had waked up at the sound of or all that racket which the horses had made when they we u slung stung Now Now what does docs that mean mean said Jimmy Skunk to lo himself What can have happened to have upset those horses so He lazily yawned and stretched d. d Then he ho ambled out and looked up p the Long Lane I dont don't see s e anything said Jimmy I dont don't see anything to ha e those horses so They certainlY were frightened I wonder what It tt means I think Ill I'll have to stroll up that way wa by br and by Mean lean Meanwhile Meanwhile while Ill I'll go back and finish my nap There Is no use uso Ul O In losing good sleep when hen one doesn't have to lo So Jimmy turned around and went ent back and In two Iwo minutes he was once more curled up taking a nap When then ho awoke a oke It was just before time for tor jolly joll round re ra r. r 1 I Mr 11 Sun to go to bed behind the th Purple Hills lulls Jimmy ambled out Into the Long Lane Lano and then turn turn- turned turned ed up the Long Lane He Ho hadn't forgotten that he was going lo to lotry to try to find rind out what had fright fright- frightened ened Farmer Browns Brown's horses Copyright 1925 by T T. W W. Bur Dur- gess The T next story AtOr Jimmy Skunk Proves Prove Himself Useful |