Show II FARMER FAR BROWNS BROWN'S BOYS BOY'S GREAT SURPRISE By Thornton W. W V. V Burgess Durgess A real surprise you'll all agree A good surprise should always be Farmer Browns Brown's B owns own's Boy Bo Little Miss Curiosity the little mUe Chuck who had been so much at home In Farmer Browns Brown's kitchen had gone She had escaped Farmer Browns Brown's Boy was sure of ot it Mother Brown was sure of It Hadn't they hunted everywhere Ir in that house for Little Miss Curiosity I must have ha left leU that door open without knowing It It sighed Mother Brown I dont don't remember opening that back door once but I must have Well WelI all we can cm do Is to hope that no dog or hunter of fox will get her I Just cant can't bear to think of anything happening to the little scamp Farmer Browns Brown's Boy went out to the barn to do his evening chores before b rore dark Having finished shed these he re returned re- re returned returned turned to the house Wheres the pail pall Mother asked he I I notice that some of ot the plants need water- water waterIng waterIng Ing IngI Ing I guess Its It's over In the comer by bythe bythe bythe the stove replied d Mother Brown I i r. r I J Jl 1 i l But nut Mrs Bronn Brown reached in and picked up Little Miss Curiosity washed up the kitchen floor this morning and I 1 put It over there with the floor cloth spread around the edge to dry Tanner Farmer Browns Brown's Boy went over ov r to the comer corner of the stove and sure enough there was the pall pail and in It was the cloth with which Mother Brown had washed up the floor It wasn't spread around the edge to dry dryas dryas dryas as she had said but he didn't notice this He picked p eked up use tie pall and it struck him that that pall was a wee bit heavier than usual 1 He reached In Inand Inand inand and picked up the cloth Right then end nd there he nearly dropped that tha pall Yes sir he nearly dropped that tha pall pail He lie whooped joyously For Por goodness sake Son what has got into you cried Mother Brown Then Farmer Browns Brown's Boy began I to laugh lugh How l he did laugh I Come Com here said he come here and look lookin lookIn in ire this pall pall Mother Brown hurried over to look lookIn lookin lookin In the pall There curled up in th the bottom of the pall pan and blinking up a at them sleepily was Little Miss Curl Curl- She had h d climbed into that pall pal and then pulled the floor cloth down over her so that It t had hidden he her completely Not once had they thought though of looking in that pail pall For that mat mat- matter matler matter ter ler had you glanced cIa need Into the pall pai you jou would never have suspected that tha thata a funny little woodchuck was as there That said Farmer Browns Brown's Boy is one of the greatest sui surprIses I ever had and one of the Now go back to your our box you little scamp camp for I hav have e to use this pall But Mother Brown reached in anc and picked up Little Miss Curiosity I 1 feel just like squeezing you ou she de de- declared The Idea of making us all al althis this worry But Im I'm so glad to have hav you back that Im I'm going to give you OU a cookie So Little Miss Curiosity lay on he her back jack on Mother Browns Brown's lap and nib nib- nibbled nibbled nibbled bled greedily at one of those delicious cookies such as only Mother Brown could make And all 1111 the time she knew nothing of the excitement she had lad caused I wonder said ald Farmer Browns Brown's Boy as he watched how contentedly she he lay In Mother Browns Brown's lap If U she really cally would run away avay should she get gt out I 1 have an Idea that she would stay tay somewhere within smell of those cookies I wouldn't blame her if U she did Id I'd Just like to see what she would do Well we wont won't do anything of the kind yet yet et declared Mother Brown She's happy here and she's going to stay here where I can look after her When she he gets big enough to fight her ler own battles well see about let let- letting letting letting ting her out Copyright 1927 by T. T W W. V Burgess The next story Old Man Coyote Is Wrongly Accused |