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Show SAMMY .1 W WATCHES AND WATTS By Thornton . Burgee If von do wroriK you r e bound to rue it For someone's suit to see you do it. Sammy Jay. In the Green Forest or the Old Orchard Or-chard that some one is pretty sure to be Sammy Jay himself. Next to getting get-ting into mischief himself, Sammy delights de-lights in catching others in mischief. Somehow ho always seems to lc around whf-n there 13 anything v;'in' on. What Sammy Jay's sharp eyes do not see is hardly worth seeing. I On this particular morning Sammy had found nothing of interest in the, Green Forest, so ho decided to go up to the Old Orchard. So many birds' live in the uld Uichard that there Is! always something going on there And Sammy known that he can always j plek a Quarrel there just for exclti -I ment, if ho wnt to So Sammy flew I up to the Old Orchard. Ho was very quiet His noisy tongue was still. He! few from tree to tree doing his best j to keep out of sight and at the same, j time to spy on his neighbors, i Sammy found it riuite as dull in th , Old Orchard as It had been In the i Green Forest He had just about made! I up his mind to pick a quarrel w ith i Welcome Robin just for the saks of! a little excitement when hia sharp eyes saw something red disappearing In hind some hushes Just back of , Farmer Brown's house, i "If that isn't Reddy Fox, then I'm I no Jay: 1 exclaimed Sammy to himself "I wonder what that red-coated ras-I ras-I cal is doing up here. He ought to have sense enough to keep away from' Farmer Brown's at this time o't yeai No one with a family has a right toi takfl chances, and Reddy Fox certainly certain-ly Is taking a chance when ho corneal up in Farmer Brown's dooryard In i broad daylight. I wonder what he is after. He probably knows that Farmer Farm-er Brown and Farmer Brown's Boy are not at home I watch him. Perhaps Per-haps there may be some excitement, after all. So by a round-about way Sammy flew over to i little tree just back of the little pen In which were the young Ducks of Farmer Brown's Bov. ( Almost under hi n Reddy Fox lay in I the grass behind some bushes, watching watch-ing those Ducks. Sammy chuckled1 RCei "if that Isn't Reddy Fox then I'm no jav : ' exclaimed Sammy to hlnw if silently. Tfe km-w that should he taka one of those Ducks he would be running run-ning a chance Of getting into trouble. Sammy also knew that Reddy was sorely tempted. "He can catch one of those Ducks and get away with it Just as easily as not." thought Sammy. "If ho does that there will be no excitement at all I can't let Reddy Fox get away so easily as all that Reddy thinks that no ono sees him I'll let him keep on thinking so until the last minute." So Sammy kepi his tongue still and watched Hv- watched and waited. !!..- eyes twlngled as he saw Reddy Btrug Ming with temptation. He chut klcd but It was a noiseless chuckle, as he saw Rcddy's mouth begin to water. "Ho won't bo able to leave them nlono." thought Sammy "His stom-uch stom-uch will overcome his common sense His stomach is going to get him Into trouble. I feel It In my bohes?' So Sammy watched and waited and wished that Reddy would hurry and make up his mind. At last Roddy began be-gan to creep forward very slowly and very carefully, k'-cplng himself as flat as possible In th" tall grass. Sammy's eyes sparkled. Now was the time for some excitement (Copyright, 122. by T. XV. Burgess) Tho Next story: "Sammy Jay Gets mi. Excitement. ' |