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Show I HE YOUNG FOX IS. MADE COM-FORTABIjE, COM-FORTABIjE, nv THORNTON W. BURGESS. Thoughtful klndnosa in the end Is bound to win for you .i friend. Farmer Brown's T.oy. After the yountr Fox, chained to a post back of Farmer Brown's house, I had three times been thrown on his back by the chain which held hlni b wisely gave up tring to run away rt full speed. JU "'it tried to st il laway, hut, of eours when he reached Uie end of the ehuin he found hlm-jt"!:' hlm-jt"!:' still a prisoner. Then ho began to understand fully thai It was that chain that held htm. if he ronid cut that chain ho would be free He promptly s:it down and began to prnau I at that chain It didn't take him iong I to find out that, .sharp as his teeth 'were, they were useless on that Chain. Then he gave up. He stretched himself him-self on the ground, with his head flat between his little black paws, and didn't moo. lie was in ust that position when at last Farmer Brown's Bov came out of the barn. He had a large bo:, In one side of which he had Ut Q doorway door-way Just big enough for the young Fox to go through comfortably This bdz he placed on the ground close to the post to Which the joung Kox was chained. i . "There, you little rascal," said. Farmer Brown's Boy, "I think this will make you a very comfortable house. No harm is going to come to you and you will be kept out of mis-1 chief. If ou only knew it, you are really better off than you were free, because then you might x- Into hits- chief and somthlng dreadful happen to you. You and I are going to get better acquainted ;ifter a while and you will learn that I am reall a f rii.-nd.' Of course, the younsr Fox didn't understand a word of this. Perhaps he. would have felt better If he had understood. As it was, he was sure that Partner Brown's Boy was a dreadful enemy and meant him nothing noth-ing but harm. He was too frightened even to think, and how he did long for his mother. Somehow ho felt that if only his mother would come to him all would be well ! firmn- Brown's Boy guessed how the young Fox was ferling. H went, into the house and got s plate of food, which he put down beside that box Then he went back to the barn.l where he could peep out and watch but where the young Fox could not see him. Hr Was Very Comfortable, but He ;- Very, Very Miserable, For some time the young Fox did not move. When at last he was sure that no one was around he got to his feel and wallc.-d umt to that lux. Hs wa suspicious of it He w.is very suspicious of It. He remembered how harmless that old barrel in which he had been caught had seemed. This )ox might be the samo kind of a trap. I It was a great temptation to go inside Inside he would be out of sight, and if there was .my one thing 111 all the Great World that young Fox wanted it was to get out of sight He was afraid to stay outside, and he viii afraid to go in It wasn't until he heard the back door of the house slam as Mrs. Brown came out that he put more than his nose inside in-side that little doorway. But when he heard that door s'.arn and heard tho footsteps of Mrs. Brown he Just had to gel out of sight, bo in he ivent It was dark In there, and somehow he felt safer. But never onee did he take his eyes from that little doorway. You see, ho was afraid It would be closed. But it wasn't closed, and no one came near him. Inside that box was some hay for a bed. The young Fox curled up in that hay. He was very comfortable com-fortable Yes, i-ir. he was very comfortable. com-fortable. But he didn't once think oi that. He was very comfortable, but he was very, verj miserable. (Copyright. 19:'2", by T. W. Burgess.) The next storv: "Bowser the Hound Is sorely Puzzled " |