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Show 1 mi: voi .; rox .i i s w jBDTON W BURGESS. it:: Us !rJoin lost lafilrly count the cost. S I -Old Mother Nat up.. BJ ftt who w.is Farmer' Si's ruDDcr. had been n fatot Ibat he wis almost m ttt, Tarracr Brown's ftr, try pood to him They K ! '-! nds. But no one p'jfteET jn 1 If- u 1 1 . . ffiijMg Fox had plen'.v to - V o 1 1 i rjWr bome an nothln . Blrtnis (o the idea id Ksk tint. rop!r. im: it fwa; Koxs . i ni hap-J hap-J t- "'Jld quite forge-.is forge-.is Brit littlf! 1Kb Sometimes when le around be w outd lie ikiag out across the over to tht Greeiu Old Putyre, with such tjc tbat 1 am sure 'Jbor would have takt-a ti tt ir'.n him. cni- n-.TTiing. bfl-u bfl-u astir In Farmer tat joun;- Fox made lie tlaple which held Hp he was fastened l Itcoiiie loo.e. Thu at the chain and It UllUJe. Ho kept luir-Itj luir-Itj and tugging. At t ptllwl out- it pull, .1 ly taat the young Pox shls bad. When he ht discovered thut ho ir, hi- (ree t0 twin vas still fsst to as no longer fast m trcr.ibled all over Al first he mov 1 Ha t i . Zi fc- '-J?..t up shorl l 9 Zfa Ua won I... I t: : ill tii s' " ts' 1 ' ' ' ii t. H kv. ,:;, !'s: h . - :' ir, . m m il ) sal! 'f--' 511 it' ttS UK." '"'t hit troubles Vil Ijrouphi him un n . . J f -:. v " 1 ' -. "Si - HfAM Stralghl for the Old Pasture lie headed. chain free from the bushes. Then he v.. nt on slowly and carefully now. In spit of this, that chain would keep catching and yanking him up short. I It was .slow work and hard work, but I at last he reached him home in the bramble tangle on the edgo of the I Grt n Forest where jt joins the Old Pasture- lie was quite tired out by that time and he was badly worried by that dragging chain. But despit.-all despit.-all this, he was happier than he had b. en for a long time. He was happier than ho had been since ho was first taken prisoner. His happiness mi the happiness of freedom, than which there is no greater happiness. So the younf: Fox lay down to rest. (Copyright, 1922. by T. W: Burgess) The next story: "That Hateful Chain " 00 |