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Show liKT LITTLE FOX SP1FS SOMETHING. Iteraton W. Burgess. pil yon will be true, t. tiaiB plv, n yon Mrs Reddy litititoDe In the Iaugh-ei Iaugh-ei t balf-grown llttlo Fox. lliDirteet of tho four chll-IiMt chll-IiMt Foi. He had proveJ U erart-?t I.- .-.u'.si- i pi'.: up trying to find h':i thi the three other young TKe, Reddy and his four 1 were playing a game of mt a game that really u.it Iftcufh the young Foxi-s Mr this. Reddy had gone UMtn and the four young-dicwed young-dicwed his tret", until It i,ti Lsufhin.- Itrool-. FI Fox wouldn't give up. lew hit father hiding i;id be found If only he If- oufh o find htm lie Ikii fatber hadn't gone whe-e atb followed "It must -,. ill toss the laughing pt ill," thought the little li apjcttd us to be smart S lit across on these l.l,j Ismr, I am going to keep I wm and rind out. 1 II 'HtHfled until I do " d at the swlftlv running a the stone he set on wit one. ' Father told us J l our best friend In time Tas other day mother anethhig Perhaps It Jt 10 much of It," satri - ttM stones were nearer LWell. here ijoes:" P tb little Pox lumpe.1 nw store it really sur-B sur-B ' find ho easily he Jwsp. was now la the Laugnln Brook. I!"a- do,vn 'o gain cour- gttt Jump He looked up 'Brook and he looked ' Machine Brook. From C.L. C,J d 8f0 ne mother J nd "'Btra sitting nr Jown the Laughing Once morn he -ji'. ilo.wi U gain courage cour-age for the next Jump Brook ".here the trail of his father had em"d About half-way to them waa h lil? rock right In the middle of the. Laughing Brook. Tho little 1 Fox hardly noticed it at first. But presently he noticed that the top of th.it big rock wasn't like the tops of other rocks No, hlr, it wasn't like the tops of other rocks. The little Fox eat up a llttlo stralghtrr and looked sharply The top of that big rock was reddish There was no doubt about It The llttlo Fox stared and stared Present ly a Merry Little Bree7 went danc-Ina: danc-Ina: over that big rock. Th' little Fox blinked his eyes two or thr.o times. It seemed to him that the top of that big rock had moved BVer so little Another M-rry Little Breeze danced over It This time the little Fox was sure An Idea popped lnt? his funny llttl head "Tour eyes msy fool you, but you can always trust your nose," was a 1 saying Mother Fox had taught tho 1 young Foxes The little Fox remem-! remem-! bored this "I be!lee " snld he, "tint if I can get where the Merry Little Breezes will blow In my face from the direction of that big rock I will find out something I believe the Is some one on thot big rock, but I cannot trust mv eyes." The smart little Fox held up his moist little black nose to find out which way the wind was coming from Then he kept on across the Laughing Brook by means of those big Stonei. I Jumping from one to another, until at last he was safely on tho bank. As soon as he reached the bank hs strirte.i down the iJtufflilnp: Brook. He didn't keep his nosV to the ground now for he wasn't thinking of find- Ing his father's track there He kept' his nose In the air and with every step he sniffed. (Copyright. 1922. by T. W. Burgess ) The next storv "The Smart Little Fox Finds Reddy." |