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Show A PROUD FATHER 1 lt Thornton I'.nr- The newer the baby the surer 'twill be The most wonderful baby you ever, will see. Whltefoot the Wood Mouse. N'othlng grows faster than docs pride. Once It becomes fairly started in the heart it grows and grows ln a most astonishing way. When White-foot White-foot the Wood Mouse was first shown' the four babies which Mrs. Whltefoot! said were his as well as hers he was so surprised that thro was lit. b-room b-room for any other feeling. Llttl MrS Whltefoot was fairly bubbling over with pride and he thought that Whitefoot ought to be Just a proud of these babies as she wad. He didn'' tell her so. but he wasn't proud of them at all. The truth Is he thought 'them very homely. Their beads were too big for their bodies. They were I sp rawly little things. Instead of being I proud of them ho was rather ashamed of them. You see he hadn't yet got ,the feeling thul they really belonged .to him. But as he thought things over and listened to little Mrs Whltefoot ho began to be Just a little bit proud of those babies As he hunted for. his supper he kept thinking about them, and the more hi- thought about them the more proud be became. "Mrs. Whltefoot is quite right, they are wonderful babies. 1 thought Whitefoot. ' Never have I seen su-h fine looking Wood Mouse babies They are a credit to their parents I muilt hurry back and have another look at them. ' So back hurried Whltefoot and was met at tho door by Mrs Whltefoot..! You see he was just a wee bit ashamed to admit that he was so Interested The soft eyes of Mrs. Whltefoot twinkled twink-led but she said nothing and made wav for Whltefoot so that he might look at the babies Whllefoot's heart 'swelled as he looked at them They were his, his very own' Mrs. White-foot White-foot would let him stay only a moment mo-ment When he left tho house he went straight over to hunt up his neighbor, Tlmmy the Flying Squirrel "I have some news for you, Tlmmy," said he. What Is It0" asked Tlmmy. 'i have four of tho finest babies that were ever born in the Green Forest." For-est." declared Whltefoot proudly "Oh, Is that all" replied Timmy. ' I thought It was something really important," im-portant," "You ought to see them." continued Whltefoot. 'They are simply wonderful." wonder-ful." Timmy the Flying Squirrel yawned. "It's a nice ecnlng. Isn't if" said he, and went sailing over to another tree with one of his wonderful jumps For 'he next few days Whltefoot could think of nothing and talk of nothing but those wonderful babies. mm I liac Tour of the finest hable that i-T were born in the GlQCn FOSBSt," declare i v hlu tool i" audi) . and he couldn't at all understand why H his neighbors didn't seem the leas' .bit Interested No sooner would b" H mention those babies than the one to whom he- was talking would remember H thai he had business somewhere else H i You see every one of thorn either had H or had had the most wonderful babies H in all the Green Fprest if course. H jthey were too polite to tell Whllofool H so. but that is the way they felt about H It. It is always so when there are H new oi Mr s H (Copyright, 1 922. by T- W. Burgess) The next story. "Four Fast Grow-lng Grow-lng Little Worries." oo |