Show Burgess Bedtime Stories TilE THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEAR DISAPPEAR- DISAPPEARANCE DISAPPEARANCE ANCE By THORNTON W. W BURGESS Mystery is 13 seldom nice But it gives to life lICe a eo spice Farmer Fanner Browns Brown's Boy Farmer Browns Brown's Boy looked at Farmer Fanner Brown Farmer Brown looked at Mother Brown and Mother Brown looked at the other two and andon andon on i each face was the same funny expression They were standing In Inthe inthe the he room of Farmer Browns Brown's Boy Well Veil said Mother Brown what do you jou ou make of It Is that a real Bear or Is It a ghost Bear Farmer Brown grinned By the looks of things around this house Ill I'll say that Its It's a real Bear said he But where under the sun hes he's gone to o now Is beyond me one We heard him racing around upstairs here when we started to come up and he hasn't had lad a a. chance to get downstairs since He must be bo here hero But v here where asked Farmer Browns Brown's Boy None Nono of the closet doors Is open Nevertheless Ive I've looked In every closet We have pulled the clothes off orf every bed There Isn't a a. place in these rooms big enough for a n. squirrel to hide let alone a a. Bear even If he hes heIs heis Is s little He couldn't have Ime gotten gott n out of tho the windows s. s because the screens screens' are in all of or them He must have gotten jotten downstairs somehow though how I haven't the least le t idea Farmer Brown shook shoo his head No said Mid he he couldn't have gotten gott n downstairs He was upstairs when you jou and I started up Your mother was at the foot toot of the stairs by the tho time we were at the top He couldn't possibly have gone gone downstairs g without being seen by her Boy grinned All perfectly true said he he so supposing you tell us where he Is It was fas Farmer Browns Brown's turn to grin Hes a n. mystery Bear sal said he It looks to me as if 1 he couldn't couldn get out but did Probably he 1 is laughing at us now Arc Are you ab ab- absolutely absolutely ab- ab absolutely sure that no closet door was wa open One may have been open anc and blown to after aCter he ho had gone In o or been pushed to I am ans absolutely sure replied Farmer Browns Brown's Boy but Just t to tomake tomake make doubly sure well we'll go through those closets again Mother can sta stay right here at the head of the stairs stair while we search the closets in a all the rooms So mother Brown remained a at the head of ot the stairs stair while Farmer Brown and Farmer Browns Brown's Bo Boy opened and md searched s every closet close They made a good Job of It U too i- i ii i S Where he was he was keeping very very sun still But they didn't find Cubby More More- Moreover Moreover over they didn't find any sign n that Cubby had hM been in any of the closets closet There was no stickiness anywhere Nothing was upset or dis die disarranged arranged as was the th case cate in the various bedrooms Well said Mother Brown It isn't well said Mid Farmer Brown Drown That Bear Isn't in any of the closets He Isn't in any of the bed bed- bedrooms bedrooms bedrooms rooms Youve You've seen that for tor your your- self sel I think he is bewitched All this time Cubby was In one of ot the bedrooms and he wasn't bewitch bewitch- bewitched ed Where do you think he was This much I 1 can tell you Wherever Wherever ever ver he was as he was keeping very very still lie He was keeping as still as al any mouse moule that ever lived Copyright 1927 19 by T. T T W. W Burgess Burges The next story Farmer Browns Brown's Boy Is Ah ened |