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Show MKTIIIIKN DISAI'l'I k. IHOHMON . hi If v" fe;-'iD"t th.- p ' doub.: j j i ;.. : N'atun Mfced-iys Furm r Brow n K veal shut to the l - SiEt ti:; piui Haw u i ' BkC!:? cl RcdUdl l.-n .. tot..'-: ' iiiu: . : ' N K'iCh IliK'l t Lbd til ht:i5. No more v i Hit ." Hkri ;Ih heoyuril gab anil mv:.:- i 1 1 ki Bhl I flk to i urn Vj ltd tart-i '. the lien jBl: :: (riphti i 11 rush I Hbt torn, but I iv ' he tl:u.- 1m ;. j . rvvl.. re In i In-Jlvilili In-Jlvilili or on- of bis r-l.i-BNkcJ In u!n. ".ov.s'T th- I' V:: tr l- v.f-r I ha Bi-' pff bromi n I bta Mu; u la the way Hi' returni 1 to Ms husking :tte Utern(n In. lr.,- ; ws mining! Ju.t Wotely sun-. . ouiit-d E' ' l.Pi It had shnplv I H 11!(d t, : ": Late in the afternoon he fflrove tne hens back Into the henynrd barn. N'owhere did he find so mu.-h as a trace of that missing hen. TJow-ser TJow-ser the Hound .se-::s d thai something was wronp and trotted around behind bis master, snlftlntj he-re and th'-e with that wonderful nose of his. But ho smelled nothing to e-xclto Iilm and it was plain to his master that jo Fox had be-en around to have carried away a full-grown hen. ' If Shadow the WVascI had killed mat nen i wouiu nnu me uoj uuiu-where. uuiu-where. Shadow couldn't carry it off." said Farmer Brown's Boy. "If Shadow the Weasel didn't takr It and Reddy Fos didn't Uik it and Red-tall Red-tall the Hawk dldn" take It, who did? That's what 1 want to know. Hens don't disappear of their' own accord Now I've lost four and I am no wiser as to how they dlsappcan-d than 1 was in tin beginning. If this keeps up I am at raid I will lose all my hens. Oho thing Is sur--, and that Is that I Will ha- to ki-e-p them shut up. This last one dlsappc-ared when they were outside the henyard and it may be those others disappeared In the same WS,y, only I didn't notice It at the lime I want to know who that thief Is, and I mean to find out. Soon r cr latir he will give himself away. I never knew it to fall. A thief, is hound to b,. found out." Farmer Brown's Boy stopped to pat the young Box before oroing back to th. bam. The young Box was not outside, as usual, but was In his house. Farmer Brown's Boy callel to "hfrji softly. Pre-sently th- young Fox camo slowly out, actlnp very much as If he were sl py. Slowly he walked over toward Farmer Brown's Boy. Just as the latter put out his hand to pat tho young Fox on the he-ad ho saw something which suddenly sud-denly awakened his suspicions. (Copyright, 1 .22. by T. W. liurge-ss ) The next story: "Farmer Brown's Boy Finds Out the Truth." m |