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Show BOWSER INTB5RPERBB. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. E'en though you do net understand, Obey when given a command. Dowser the Hound. Bowser th Hound was uneasy. Somehow he didn't feel like sleeping He had a feeling that something was wrong. Just what it was he didn't know. It was just a feeling, that was all Perhaps it was because ho couldn't understand why his master had ordered him to keep away from the young Fox who was a prisoner in that box Just a little way off. Finally Bowser decided he would have a look around. By this time sweet Mistress Moon had begun to shed her soft light over everything As Bowser came out of his house he looked over to the box where the younK run yvata u pi wvu , vu.. jkv iii front of that box was a dark mass, which at first. Bowser thought was a Blai k Shadow. He took a few steps toward It and it moved and divided. n. part disappeared through the doorway of that box and tbe other lightly bounded away Bowser knew at once that one of tht6e sesmlnc shadows was the young Fox Whom he had been ordered to leave alone.. But 'what was the other one? Something was Rolng on ho j must find out about. He walked I over to where that dark mass had I been and in an instant his nose told I'hlrn that that shadow which had i hounded away a. is no shadow nt all. but Mrs. R eddy For a moment or two Bowser hesi-I hesi-I bated. His master bud ordered him to leave that young Fox alone, but he had said nothing about any other Fox. Would it be right for him to chase Mrs. Reddyt Bowser decided that it would He opened his mouth and sent his Kreat voice rolling across the Oreen Meadows e'ear over to tho Old 1'asturo. Then with his nose to the ground he started after Mrs. Roddy Ent this chase proved to be different differ-ent from any chase Bowser could renumber. re-number. Instead of leading him far away before trying to got rid of him Mr? Reddy led him only a short distance dis-tance before she mixed her trail so that even his wonderful noso could not straighten It out. lie spent some I lime trying, but at last made up his I mind It couldn't be done and trotted back home. As he drew near the box where the young Fox was prisoner he again saw how shadowy forms In the moonlight, moon-light, one rept back Into the box w hile the other swiftly bounded away j . - . "1; c?l- tin " ""r'" i Out Just In Front of That llox Was u Dark Mass. Again ho found the fresh trail of Mrs Reddy and again she led him off. only to mix the trail up as before be-fore He spent even longer his time trying to work out that trail, but at ; last gave up and trotted home. As I before, two shadowy forms sepa-; sepa-; rated and one disappeared in that . and the other bounded away This time Bowser didn't follow. He knew that a trick had been played on ' him and he meant to find out what 1 it ,wns So Instead of following Mrs Reddy he sat down a short distance away to watch. Ho had not been watching very j long when Mrs. Reddy boldly ap-I ap-I peared right in front of him Shel I was so near that the temptation was too great, and away went Bowser j after her Again tho result was as before. In even less time than usual her trail ended. But now Bowser wasted no time trying to find it. He turned and hurried straight back to Farmer Brown's barnyard. Once more he saw tho young Fox hurry In o the box while Mrs. Reddy disappeared dis-appeared among the Blaok Shadows If ever there was a puzzled dog It was Bowser the Hound. Something was going on that ho couldn't understand under-stand at nil. The truth of the matter Is, Mrs. ; 1 f was trying to gnaw through the collar the young Fox wore and thus set him froe. Bowser was interfering. inter-fering. ( Copyright. 1922, by T. W, Burgess) The next story: "Mrs. Reddy Is Forced to Give Up." |