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Show POUND i LAST. Bj Thornton W. nurge-. Rich Is he who doth command Friendship that will understand dd Mother Nature A Badly frightened and very hungry young Fox lay bealde a log in the Green Forest, with all his might h lshfd that he hn.i not run away from Farmer Brown's barnyard, -where h bad been a prisoner. Tea sir. he I Wished Jot that, s'rnngo as it may I Seem. It had ben better, far better, to b B prisoner there than a pr'soner . I th 'Irr:, Forest, and this is Jus' Whai the young Fox was. As' a pri-. pri-. oner In Parmer Brown's barnvard he lhad Jiad plenty to eat and the best of cars .U a prisoner In the Green Forest For-est ho was likely to starve to death All night he had struggled to free himself, but In ,valn. That chain which held him had wedged so tightly tight-ly In a crack in an old log that, do ba1 he would, he couldn't get It free hen morning carne he wui In ile-and ile-and completely tired out. He wsi bo Mr-d out end discouraged that he hardly noticed the racket which S; rum:. Jay and Blacky the Crow and 'hatterer the Red Squirrel were mak-Ing. mak-Ing. As soon as It was light enough all three had hurried over to se If M7SS still there, and when they had ifound that ho was had started la to .try to torment him by shrieking at him end calling his namea end making fun of him. j That -n tno morning Farmer Brown's (Boy had eaten an early breakfast. urried through his work and started 01 again to look for that young Fox. I He headed straight for the Green 1 Forest, for the afternoon before he had searched all through the Old Pasture. Pas-ture. Now the voices of Blacky the Crow and Sammy Jay carried a long distance. Een before lie reached thu edge of the Green Forest Farmer ! Brow n's Boy heard them. He paused 'for a moment to listen. He know by the sound that those two scamps were greatl) excited over something. jlils face brightened "Perhaps those rascal3 have found the young Fox," said ho to himself. " I can tell by the 'sound of their voices that they have' . found something unusual. I'll go over there and see what It is." 80 with Bowser th- Hojnd iiotting :at his heels. Farmer Brown's Boy headed straight for the place where those voices were Coming from. The I nearer he cot the louder those voices became. Then he heard the oice of Chatterer the Bed Squirrel and it ' sounded as if he were as excited as Blacky the Crow and Sammy Ja. Hv iiurrk-d. and hope grew In hi heart Blacky the (.'row was the first one ( aw tiu oaw! Hero COmea L'nrmer Brown s Boy. ' Ito discover Farmer Brown's Boy. "Caw, caw, caw!" he shrieked louder jthan ever "Caw, caw. caw! Here 'comes Farmer Brown's Boy:" Now. once such pews would hav ! filled the heart of the young 1- ox with I jfear. Probably that Is what Blacky' the Crow thought It would do this) .time But It didn't. No. sir. it didn't, 'instead It filled the young Fox with Joy. You seo. he knew that Farmer ! Brown's Boy a frlend. He knew It probabl would mean that he would .have to go back B prisoner In Farmer Brown's oarnyard. hut that would be better, a thousand times better, bet-ter, than being a prisoner in the Green jForeet. So the oung Fox pricked up his ears and listened eagerly. Presently he hi-arl fQOtstepa Then he saw Farmer Brown's Boy slowly j 'approaching and looking this way nri'l 'that way The young Fox sal Up and! Whined. Te8. sir. he did just that. Of 'course. Farmer Brown's Boy heard 'him and hurried over to him I "YOU poor little rascal' " exclaimed Farmer Brown's Boy as he Ban how 1 the young For. was held prisoner. "You poor Utile rascal! I wonder how 'long you have ben a prisoner here." Then he went to work to get the I Chain free from tho log. while Bowser I jthc Hound looked on. wagging his tall. 1 When the chain was free he picked the young Fox up in his arms and !. started for home, while Blacky the Crow and Sammy Jay hurried to tell j all tho other little people of the Green 1 'Forest what had happened. (Copyright. 1922, by T. W. Burgess.) j rhs nxt story. "The Proof of True; ' Friendship" |