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Show jBURfSPS BEDTIHE STORIES THE LITTLE FOXES SEE BOWSER Bl THORNTON . BURGESS. I. fesMT 'l ' .Will surely lengthen out his davs. Mrs. Reddy Fox. I Over in the ld Pasture Mr. Redd Fox and the four y'oung foxes sat listening to the voice of Bowser the Hound as he chased Reddy Eox Sometimes it was so faJnt that they could hardly hear It. Again It would be so loud that Mrs. Reddy would grow anxious lest Reddy wns heading for the Old Pasture. At first the young Poxes had been merely curious, but after their mother , had told them about Bowser the Hound the .siiund of his voice filled tie in with u strange fear. This was exactly what their mother wanted She wanted them to be afraid She wanted them to be so afraid that al-ways al-ways they would take care to keep away from those places where Bowser the Hound would be likely to be. I Presently Mrs. Reddy got to her feet. 'Tome," said She, "Follow me i losely and don't one of you turn nslde. .Keep at my heels. " Then sh' I started off along an old cow path through the bushes of the Old Pasture. Pas-ture. The four young Fuxeq obediently I followed. The first one kept very :close to her heels. The second one I was right at the heels of the first. 'Tin third was so close to the second that his nose was tickled by the hair on the end of his brother s ttatl. The last one of all was so close to the third that he almost stepped on his black heels. They wondered where they were going, but they asked no 4 11 es l Ions. Under the bushes and around bram-ble-tahgles Mrs. Reddy led the way. jAt the Kick of the old Pasture was ja hill and the top of this hill was bare It was toward this that Mrs. Redd) was heading. By .m l by they reached the top. Mrs Ki ddy made the four young Foxes lie down while she stole forward to see that all was well. Presently she barked softly, j This was a signal to the young Foxes to come. At once they ran out to where she was ljlim down on a big flat rock. There without being told they lay down beside her. It was funny to see how each one tried to do Just as she was doing. Now, from this big rock on the top ot the hill In the old l'asture there was a splendid view. The y'oung Foxes never had been there bl fore They never had been where the could look so far So at llrst they gave no thought to anything but looking. look-ing. They could aoo ull o-er the Green Meadows. They could se Farmer Far-mer Brown's. Mrs. Reddy pointed this out to them and told them that Ithero was where Bowser the Hound !llved and that never must they go ne;ar there. Hut It wasn't JttSt foi the view that Jr. j Preen nil the four young l oves mw lb.it It vva.s their father. Redd Fox. their mother had brought those young Foxes up there. J ist at the foot of ,the hill on one side was the beginning ;ot the Green Forest Reddy was running in the Green Forest. Mrs. I Ki ddy knew Just where ho was run-nlng run-nlng and just where he would run. She jwas sure that before long he would come along a certain old road at the very foot of the hill in the Old Pasture Pas-ture Then he would once more turn .back Into the Green Forest. Reddy did Just exactly that. They had been lying on that big rock only a short time when the sound of Bow-'ser's Bow-'ser's voice began to grow louder. It crew lOudeT and louder until to the I four young Foxes it was the mont terrible sound they ever had heard. .They wanted to run. but their mother 'didn't move and so they didn't move They Just lay there and shivered, Then far down lr the old road appeared ap-peared A, little moving red speck. It fln w nearer and roarer Presentl 'the four young Foxes saw that It was their father, Reddy Fox. He wns run- nlng as If very tired. Two or three I times he stopped to listen, then startled start-led on aalii bown right past the foot I Of the hill without even a glance up ran Reddy, and disappeared among I the bUSheS. Hardly was he out of slght when Bowser the Hound appeared ap-peared far down the road. At first Bowser was only a speck 'But soon he was near enough for th.i 's'ounp Foxes to see him clearly He WSJ running with his nose to the ground, and If he wns tired ho didn't show It. His great voice rang In tholr lears. and It was plain that he was en-Joying en-Joying that chase. When he passed jui below- them the young Foxes saw I what a big fellow he was. Very fierce and terrible he looked to them. (Copyright, I '.ILL', by T. W Burgess), The next stsory: "A Lesson In Fox Crafl " |