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Show PAJWDY M Mils PADDY HAK1 Till EUBSI l It I -Hi VI OK By THORNTON W. BURGESS When everj thing seems going wrong And not a thing seems right. Just try your best to do your best. And work with all your might Paddy the Beaver. Mrs. Paddy swam down to the new dam with a log for the food pile down in the did pond She found Paddy swimming hack ; tid forth Just above th- Crossing point on the dam and ICOldlhg angrily. "Now what's the matter?" ehe demanded. de-manded. "Matter enough, matter enough, my dMr!" replie d Paddy, "non't you see that pig headed nuisance blocking our way over th- elam'.'" Mrs. Paddy looked up and for trie first tim saw prickly Porky sitting right where they must haul those logs over the dam. "Have you asked him to move'"' ln-qulrd ln-qulrd Mrs. paddy. ' )f course 1 have. I've not only asked htm to move, but explained to him how necessary it t that we should (ret these logs over the- dam and down to our food pile as soon as possible !) doesn't pay any more attention to me than as If I were a stick or a stone." Then Mrs. Paddy tried. The result w.ts JuiJt tho airai'. You see-, Prickly Porky was ao pig headed that just because be-cause they wanted him to move h" dldn't want to move, and wouldn't move. All his life ho had done just as he had wanted to do. and not as others had wanted him to do. At last Paddy started tr, dr.iz a log over th- dam at a point further along lit was not B good place and when he I got the log over It did not fall in the Laughing Urook, but had to be dragged drag-ged there. He left It to float down the 1 Iaughlng Brook and wont back to jhvlp Mrs. Paddy to get her log o i r. But Mrs. Paddy had been doing sum. jllilnklng. "We must use our heads, Paddy, r.he said. "It is too hard work and It takes too long to drag the logs over the way you took that one. Prickly Porky isn't going to stay hi" forever. for-ever. Tho thing for us to do is gl all th logs and branches wo have cut down hero to the dam and leave il,, mi Tlwn when that stupid iHIow takes it into his head to move on. u-can u-can get them over ihc dam and into the Laughing Brook. In that way. We i will lose no time." I "You are right, my denr. Ti ou ar 'rleht Hist as veu usually are." re-plied Paddy. "1 hate to give in to that fel-'low fel-'low but time Is precious and we cannot can-not afford to waste It. Colno on. Paddy started swimming for the other end of the pond, where they had "Have '! asked him to move?" asked .Mr Paddy. been cutting trees, and Mrs. Paddy followed. fol-lowed. They each brought a log down and left it against the dam at the point where it was to be carried over. Then they went back, for more. Hack and forth, they traelcd, and all the time : Prtckiy Porky remained right where I he was, and gnawed tho bark from a stick, just as If that was the- only J Important thing to be done In all the ' (ir -it World. I (Copyright. 1322. By T. W. Burgess) The next story "Paddy Giv.es Pdlckly Porky a Bath!" |