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Show TIIK YOUNG I'OX IS PUZZLED. Bv Tiiomton w Bargees. Who most would see. will find. I ween. 'TIs best himself to keen unseen. Redd Pox. After the vounor Fox had left Prickly Porky tho Porcupine feasting on Illy pads, he kept on up the! Laughing BrOOki He felt that he ha 1 learned all he could arbout Prickly Porky thai day and that It would be a wasto of time to Bit watching him stuff himself. Hi h id n. ver been as far up the Laughing Lrook as this and he felt very bold and very much out In the Great World Everything w-as n. - and strange, He had the delightful feeling that any Instant he was llkl to see something some-thing he had never seen before. But already that young Fox had the beginning be-ginning of wisdom in hiu small h I I Eager as be was to explore he dl.l not forget the lessons he had already learned. "He is likely to see most who himself him-self remains unseen." said the young Fox to himsSlf.. "And he Is muca safer " ho added. Of course, he was right, and this shows tjiat he had that common sense which Is lh" u -glnnnlg of 'wisdom. He was brimming brim-ming over with curiosity, but ho didn't Intend that that curiosity should lead him into dancer So as he made his wo; along the bank of the Laughing Brobk he use I his eyes, his ears and his nose as Old Mother Nature Intended they should b used. He never stobueti twit Into an open place until mad" sure that It was perfectly safe to do so. He never failed to tct every ev-ery Merry Little Breeze that came dancing alontf. He never Called to stop and listen whenever his little, black cars caught an unexpected sound, no matter how faint it was. I Presently he came to where thej Laughing Brook made a sharp turn. The water was laughing, gurgluiK I nd splashlnR over and between rock : ' and the sound of It filled his ears , Suddenly tho young Fox stopped jusc as he was going to take another step With cne paw lifted he stood as still as If he had suddenly frozen. His ears were cocked forward and his head was tipped a little to one side.: He had heard a splash. You or 1 probably would not have noticed that1 that splash was any different from' i he splashing of the water on th.-rocks, th.-rocks, but the young Fox had no-tied no-tied the difference, and now he was listening for it again. He had noticed that this was a single splash while! the splashing of the running water I was continuous. For what seemed to 5 j I ;.j!'' "-r"; H.tM "There Is somothina nuccr uolrur on round that bend. 1 '-aid the vounc Fox to iiimsdf as he benn to steal forward. him a very long time he stood there, listening, but hearing nothing but th sound tin- Laughing Brook. He had about made up fads mind I -at nad been mistaken when azaln he. heard that splash This time he knew that It rami from around the bend in the Laughing Brook. What cou:d I it mean? If it was Just the Laughfhg Broo'; why didn't thoso splashes keep right on? Why was there such a long time between them1 The voung Fox was puizllng He continued to stand right where he was, listening. After a while he heard that splash igatn He didn't move until he had heard :t half a dozen times "There Is something Queer going1 on around the bend." said the young Fox to himself as he began to steal forward. He would take two .ir thr.e steps, then stop lo listen until! he heard the splash again. All th time he was using his little black nos as h nos-e should be used. But his' nose told him nothing, and because of that bend in tho Laughing Brook I his eyes told him nothing. He had to depend on his ars. and those ears' told him that there was somethlngl unusual going on just ahead " Jt was exciting. it was very exciting, ex-citing, and it was puzzllnp. The! young Fox could not Imagine what I he was going to see when he reached 1 a place where h- could look arouud ' I hat bend in the Iaughlng Brook. , I (Copyright, 12.', by T. W' Burgess.) The next story- "The Young Fpx is More Pussled Than Kver." |