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Show jfeSSDTJgp 11 paim 11. 1 J :ss tj Thornton VV. Burgess sons tbat are learned through 1 seldom need to learn again. Old Mother Nature. I is nothing In the v.-orld r.o ; lng as to be ignored. This to be taken no notice of what- i & time when you want to be j . The young Fox who had out In tlx- fJrnt World was! Ijnorcd by Prickl: Porky the! Inc. whom h had met on the Jttle Path in the Green Forest. mnr Fox might have been a' )r stone for all the notico ' Porky took of him. Prickly simply kept slowly shuffling, way talking to himself in a way. I young Fox uulte lost his tem-t tem-t was the 1 irrt t.me he had !n Prickly Porky. Ho hadn't that there waa any such fellow thr Great World, uf course. Did have found out all about fore venturing ery n ar him. 1 What h- had tnb-nd'-d to do first place. But wheu be lost pcr he forgot Most people 1 do forget when they lose their tcni-r tcni-r c rs. ' If Prickly Porky had taken any notice no-tice of him whatever, the young Fox 1 rol ibl v.ould have remembered and would have been careful. Hut to be treated a3 if he were nothing more than a stick or a stone was more than the young Fox could stand. He was bound that he v.ou'd make this homely, lippoUte fellow take some notice of him Tb- moved so slowly that the youn.: lx at last lost all fear of him He yapped and barked in Prickly Porky very face. He ran around him excitedly. once he even jumped over hint. But Prickly Porky kept on his way quite as if the young Fov was not then- at all. He dilnt ccn rattle the thousand little spears In his coat as a warning for hie eaw that this was a young Fox who had yet much ,to learn. Finally, the young Fox be-Igan be-Igan to wonder if .lir couldn't safely 'spring on l'rii kly 1'orky from behind If he could once get on his back such a slow moving creature couldn't .ossibi do him anv harm. Tin- voung ! Vox ran around behind Prickly Porky. Prickly Porky didn't even turn his head. Twice the young Fox started to spring on Prickly Porky's back, and twice at the last Instant his cour-i cour-i failed hhn. Sp instead he was con- nt to follow close behind making (readful threats and pretending that Me was going to jump Then something happened Yes, ,1r. -. something happened. It hap-pened hap-pened so suddenly that it was not until long afterwards when In- had ibev were so Sudden and o sharp Ibat they mad- the young l o ycln come to know all about Prickly Porky that the young Fox knew what rtully did happen. AH he knew at the time mat suddenlv there were several sharp pains In his left fore leg They Wrc so sudden and so sharp that the) mad' the young Fos yelp When he looked ut his leg to see what hurt him so be found slicking n it half a dozen of Prickly Porky's Ittle spears, which you know are called quills. They were what the 0Ung Fox had taken for a queer kind of hair. Bight then and there ths young FOX lost all Interest n Prickly Porkj Whining mlserablj limped away as much frightened as he was hurl, and as n.ueh pUZ?led Us he was fr'ghlcned. Something had lhappene'd to him bui h. hadn t the I least idea what He kn.w only that ,,, hai received a painful losson. . What had l-.appened Was nus. That young Fox had cotme within reach pi Iprlckly Porky's tall. He may be slow every other way. but he can swing that tali ' covered with the same kind of little spears he Carries In his coat, That young Fox was lucky hat thai tall hadu't hit him in the fac i instead of on one leg. Then Prickly 1 porkl had kept right on his way oultfl as if nothing had happened ; JSopyrlgbt, Dfrby r w BurCM 1 I The next story: "The Young Fox Acquires Wisdom " n.. |