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Show 1 S$s fiEDTmE !S THE YOUNG FOX IS IMPUDENT By Thornton W. Burgess By impudence fa nothing won, i And on! harm is ever done. Prickly Porky. j The young Fox who had icTused I to go back and join his family had j now to make his own ?.ay in the Croat World There was no onp but hlmsffif lo depend or There was no one io trll hnn v. hat to do Llut he I wasn't afraid The fact is he wanted I to be alone. When he thought oi I his brother and sisters he rather pitied them because they were uot as .'independent a.s be was. You see, he I d.dn'i know that they, too, were eager to be out In the Great World for themselves and were about ready to ' leav home. i His pad experience with one of Jimmy Skunk's children had made the young Fox very careful. Ho had learned his iosson well He really hadn't nee led hie mother's advice! never to mcddlo with things he didn't know ahout Whenever he found anything any-thing new and ."traDge he made it his business to find out all about It, or at leant as niacli as he could, before I venturing near He used his eyes and his ears and his nose as they were intended in-tended to be u?ed, and so he made few mistakes But even the wisest of Foxes willj ouce in a while forget or will make i mistake So perhaps it is not to be wondered at thai the young Fox diJ Occasionally forget. One of these times was oo I he day that he made his first Visit alone to the Green Forest. For-est. He was trotting along down the' Lone Little Path when his Bhatp eves caught a nev and strange sound In BtanfTy the young Fox stopped IP.' Stood, perfectly still, with his two sharp httle black ears pointed forward that he might hear beitti. That stranpe sound was unlike anything he had ever heard It come from a tree just ahead of him. Presently h!s eye.i opened very wide, very wide, indeed Pouiing down the trunk of that tree backwards was the queerest fellow he ever bad seen. He hadn't supposed sup-posed there was such a queer fellow i nail the Great World Me was big.' much bigger than the youns Fox aud lie was covered with what lo the' young Fox was the queerest kind of hair When he looked closely he round that there were two kinds of hair. One was fine, but the other made, the young Fox rub his eyes Nev-,' er had he heard of such hair. P j actua!lv tattled as this queer fellow I ; Prickly Porky paid no attention to the young Fox j came down the tree. It was this rattling rat-tling which was the sound the youni Fox had first heard. Of course, you have guessed who it was who was climbing down that tree. It was Prickly Porky the Porcupine Porcu-pine What the oung Fox took for queer hair was his quills, the little fpcars ho carries hidden in his coat. How ihai young Fox did stare. Slowly and fretfully Prickly Porky came down Tin- young Fox didn't know whether to run or to sLiy. Ho finally decided to stay. There would be tinr enough to run when he had to. Prickly Porky reached around and began to shuffle slowly, up the Lune Little Path toward where the young Fox was si I tius. He moved very slowly, as he always does. The young Fox decided thai there was not hint; to fear from a fellow who could move no faster than this brie did "Who are ou?" he demanded. Prickly Porky paid n;i attention to l he young Fox, but continued to talk to himself In a fretful way. The young Fox repeated his qutstion. and etill Prickly Porky took uo heed. The young Fox became angry He began to call Prickly Porky names. He Jumped about around him at a sale J distance and pretended that he was going to jump on Prickly Porky. Could you have 6cen them you wouldn't have guessed that PC kl : Porky even knew I hut that young I 'ox was about. The yoang Fox became angrier and angrier. He forgot that j ho knew nothing about this inrang' fellow. He kept Jumping abou: him and getting nearer and nearer to him! us he called him bad names and be-, came very' impudent, indeed. (Copyright, 1922, by T W Burgess.) The next story: "A Painful Lesson." |