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Show j B u R vJS s B EDT i q E WE hunter; lose a possum I DINNER. ! By Thornton W. Burgess. afewon ir falling you or me erer bad as it might be. H Unc' Billy Possum. Hi? Bilk ought to know. Certainly waedas if nuitu rs with hini could bean v,or?" Ke bad been shak- cat of a ire,- Kl,i fallen lo pound with a dreadful thump in aldst of a group of hunters. He Ibsn shaken t . ,, Jin,j ,10W ne king f arrn li.- l;rn v not where, Ecottht.-e hunters. !!- was be tarried by his tail. He looked to jd. He had looked lliat way eiace he had struck the ground, thunto-v thought be v a: d ad, and Rere planuing to serve him for Just as well that Vnc' Billy jt't understand what they were P& Imagine how h" i 1 . 1 have H bt could have understood what re planning to 6 with him He M1-' would hae felt then thai vrere worse than they ijjily ' They were b.-d enough as ll It wa-n't c imfurl able, to s r P s b' carried by the tail, and against treep, and slapped in by iwlga of bushes JJ1"-' i"H.- m.id i . an.l mo- s as If be were really dead. Not Puld It enter u heads oi th-IM5 th-IM5 that h' wasn't dead. But all .UOf; I'aC Hid, In fact, there wasn't anything Eanr w-ilh him. The th nn i e had hit the ground ho I Ptf'J the breat li fr.-.m i,in- tmi iht IM Vou see he had known how " He had fallen as limplv as P nung by his tail. hlle nothln a -ened. Then WW heard lh . of that dog LtJ chased him up a nee. He y the sound that the dog had mm track, of some one and was S 'hem. The hunters became 7. They hurried after the dog. ttuse ii night, and of r-tork in the Green Forest, Un.' W butuped against trees inorf ij he would have been had h!ifp'h0 c?-rried hlm becQ able I t Nd by ,hc' barking of that dog 1 hS? "n" p,a' ' aiu' rn' BiUy' 1 lh ,,i;it tln:- liad chased some ip" a tr, e. He hop-'d it wasn't m or o h r lilldren J I),, a? afraid Ii v . Th: I wor-m wor-m fciT 11 worried him more than il Personal !iji,i,? M whle th,; huuters readied I iZ .ht,re ,hL' dOB was barking 1 11 " t th- foot of a 3 ifv.' , hc k' pt leaplni up at I L. ,hc tree, all the time bark-I bark-I fat! aDfJ excitedly that I nc' Dil- Kin, h ba(1 auv voicc lef'-I lef'-I Ua Tn?rK bf'n:ilt' as excited as 1 f a ' tra,lj,'r around the II t) itrer' ;u"! 0110 "l pre 1 Ifti r h- "Dr' wh0 was ! in J. L n?" Billy tossed him down j, stump an( joined the others, fko vU'rr" e,arlnK UP and tr'" ilci u'lK ln tlit ""ee. Very, I s f -, 1 nc' 131115 1 LirnpJ " ' ' ' . viiKel- So 0TlfX v'aH wftlfnlng mi a s-u'.ml !.' flV ;.tJ'i'r"1 ''" tbr. l,r,rk . i,le ol W i P. then slowly but silently For a Possum as fat as Unc" Billy w3 h certainly did travel. stole away. As 90on as he felt that It tu3 safe to do bo ho ran. My, bow bo did run. For a Possum as ft as Unc' Billy was he certainly did travel. The- hunters had lotd a Posjum diune-r, but tht-v didn't know it. (Copyright, 1922. by T. V. Burgess ) The next story "How Bobby Coon Saved Unc' Billy." |