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Show FXKMI.K BROWN'S ISOY IS GKLATLY TROUBLED. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. A true heart counts no trouble groat That saves one from, a dreadful fate. Far.iier Brown's Boy. Farmer Brown's Boy. in starting out to look for the runaway young Fox, was depending very much on the wonderful nose Of Bowser the Hound. He hoped that Bowser would be able to pick up the trail of tlu young Fox and lead the way straight to him. But Bowser didn't- No sir, Bowser didn't. You s'. the ground was very dry and It had been many hours since the younp Fox had started on his way to freedom. By tho time Farmer Brown's Boy and Bowser started out there was no scent left. Bowser did his best. Yes. Indeed. Bowser did his best. He didn't know Just what he was expected to jo. That is to say. he didn't know that he was expected to find tho trail of that young FOX. But ho knew that Farmer Brown's Hoy expected him to hunt some one. so he ran thrs way and that way. with his nose to the ground, sniffing and snutiing and doing his best to find a trail which he comd follow They went .irross the Green Meadows, Mea-dows, over to the end Pasture. Farmer Brown's Boy had a feeling that that young Fox WOUid go to the Old Pasture Pas-ture All the time that Bowser nv.s trying to find a trail with his wonderful won-derful nose Farmer Brown's L5oy was looking and looking for signs of a dragging chain But though no tramped this way and that way nlonj many cowpaths In the Old Pasture, he found no signs to show that the young Fox had b-en that way. Tho longer he tramped the moie worried Farmer Brown's Hoy became. "I must find him. I must find him,'' ho kept saylnp eer and over to himself him-self "Perhaps he didn't come to the Old Pasture at all Perhaps he went up through the Old Orchard to the Green Forest. I will go over there as soon. as 1 have thoroughly hunted through the Old Pasture.!" It was tho middle of the afternoon find Farmer Brown's Boy was about ready to start for the Green Forest, when Bowser gaw an impatient yelp. His master understood that yelp, it meant that he had caught a whiff of the scent of some one who had passed that way. Bowser yelped again Th.-n for a few minutes he was silent His master could so- him running back and forth this way and that way. 3 it meant that he had caugiu a whiff of the scent of some one who hoel passed that way. with his nose to the ground and n's tall wagging more and more excitedly. excit-edly. Presently, Bowser lifted his head and sent his great voice rolling out to tell all within hearing that he had found a trail. Then away he started, haying as he ran. Farmer Brown's Boy knew that Bowser had found the trail of a Fox. There was no doubt. I whatever He plunged after Bowser as fast as he could go. He hadn't a doubt that Bow3er had at last found the trail of the young Fox and would BOOD catch up With him, for, of course, the young Fox could not run fast with that chain dragging behind But after a while Farmer Brown's Boy began to doubt. Already he ha 1 been led far from tho place where I Bowser had first found the trail and it appeared that the Fox was ru i-i nlnff without the least trouble. It simply couldn't be the young Fox. It must be that Bowser had found the trail of another Fox. In this Farmer Brown's boy was right for Bowser was chasing Reddy Fox At last Farmer Brown's Boy had to give up. It was pettlnK late and there wa work that must be done at homo. So with a sad heart he trudged horn?. ' He didn't enjoy his supper that night. ; All the time he was eating he kept wondering if his pet had any fool. I When he went to bed that night he j didn't sleep good. He kept waking I up and worrying about that young Fox. "I've got to find him," he would say ' I've got to find him." (Copyright, 1922. by T. W. Burges3) The next story-: "Found at Last." |