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Show BbWtss Umm stomsI I Ill Mt- RISDD FORG1 I 15 Thornton V. . Burgess How i.ften we ourselves deceive I'.v what we do or don't believe. ' MRS. REDDY. I There came a morning when the i young F'ox. who bad been forced to live by himself, found do breakfast walUng for h'm 01. the doorstep. He-was He-was surprised. lie was verv much jsurpriBed Yo.: see It was the first time BUCh a Ihing had happened1 I. ry other mornlnp when he had come out his breakfast had been wait-! ' iiiK for, him. He sniffed aU around but there was no uggestion .f a I breakfast and th-re was no scent to show that any one had been near the I doorstep. At first he wasn't much disturbed. ' "Probablv mother Is late this morn ing." he said to himself 'Perhaps th--hunting waan't good Sh- wouldn't forget me. I'll Just h. patient and h'l be sure to come soon." So the" younjr Kox sat down on his doorstep and wailed. He was quite willing to wait But the wry fact that then- was nothing to eat seemed to make blm hungry. He tried not to ihink about it. But an empty stomach Insists on being thought about. He grew hungrier mi I hun- grler and hungrier. He sat sUll as long ii he could Then he got up and wan. bred about livery few minutes h came back o that doorstep. Tiun he began to wonder ir something had happened to )ils mother and father. They wouldn't for'--, t me," thought the yonns Fox. "N . SlT they wouldn't forget me 1 know th-y wouldn't Something must have happened hap-pened to thm. My, but I am hun-. gry? 1 never v. as v hungry bofoi.-. ' What will I do U they don't come at I all? l kn ixv som'ethlm ha Happened 1 to them, f lust I now It. J By th? middle of the morning tha i young POX coni stand It no Ion-I Ion-I rer. He must gel somi thing to eat That empty stomach of Ma Would n t give him any peace at all. He decided de-cided to go down to the Green Mcad-i Mcad-i own. He knew the w uy perfpctl) ; He had been down there many times I with the rest of the GamUy v,e oi.' b , h id got in trouble with that little l Skunk and been forced to live bv himself. i So the young 1-'"X started down I through th" Old Pasture to the Qreen1 ' Meadows. It was the first time he I had ever made ihe tr.i all alone. and ,t gave him a ciueer feeling of bold-: He hanged lib portion so that he could st i' Ix'ttei. ness I in tl nature of an . I adventure He Couldn't think of air. r-M possible danger, but then you never can tell. So every loot of the way he us. .1 his eyes and his ears and his as a wise Fa should. J v h m he rea bed the edge of the ijl Green Meadows he carefully peeped rH ut from behind a bush Some dis-tan dis-tan o away he saw a spot of red. lie JH bed It sharply. It moved. He iH . h inged his position so that he could 111 sev letter. Tt v as h'.s mother! a es 1 11 I ..II 'I lien t I young i'e:. Reddy I'ox himself. and presently he discovered hl '.m brother and t" They were dH hunting grasshoppers and Meadow quite . i.-ar that the am hunting was veiv good. i The young Vox piinked. He swal-lowed swal-lowed bird once or twin He knew now that nothing had happened w, fpfhrr and mother. It must be, that i h-v l ad forgotten him. Ye1, I.. it. bad gotten a I about him. He wouldn't have believed it of his mother, but thi re ' was and she didn't appi to he giving him a thought. Tl:c young Fox suddenly set his teeth tog. (her very hard If his 'I mother and father didn't think any more of him than that he would show them that he eojld take car- o, bin. I self. He crept out from behind the bush and started to look for grass- jjfl (Copyright, 1 92, by T. W. Curgcssi Tho next storv "The Young Fox Is Proud of Himself." |