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Show N M)VKTIRK NF.XR THK LAI MIN". BROOK. BY TTIOR VTON W. BlTtGFSS. Never Judge looks alone Iest an error you atone Reddy Fox. I Young Foxes are quite like little . boys and girls ln that they cannot keep rtl re n time and want to see everything that la going on. Thiy had found Croaker the Green Frog near the Iji ighlng Brook and had j made him Jump head first Into tha ; water. Mi ha 1 disappeared In tho mud at the bottom. Four such excited ex-cited little Foxes as they were as they 1 watched and waited for Croaker to come up again! You see this was the i first Frog they had ever seen and they knew nothing about Frogs. Hut Croaker didn't come up anl ' after a while the four little Fox-is I gave up watching for him They ' couldn t understand how he could stay ' under water so. rut they hadn t the . patience to watch until he did come , Up Yf.il see this was their first visit to the laughing Brook and there were I io manv things to see that they I couldn't keep 8111 long. Presently one of them wandered off to see what new thing he could find In a few minutes the other little I Foxes heard him calling excitedly. Away they raced to see what he ha 1 found Ho was dancing around a queer looking thing on the ground At first they took it to be a big. rough brown stone "Huh!" exclaimed one of them. "Have you called us way over here! Just to look at an old stone"" "It Isn't a stone!" cried the little! Fox who had found It. "It Is alive II has lops and i head and the funniest fun-niest tall you ever saw!" The three other little Foxes drevri very close and looked sharply 8urc Dough at one end was something, very like a short head. They cou!d J Oi t'A'i ayci that wore very sharp-' looking. Peeping out from under thoj Ices were foot with large toe nails. I And at the other end held close against it was the funniest tall. At on e the three little Foxes b- came a? .-x.lt.d i flu first one. AM of them danced about this queer look- Ing creature and yelped excitedly Oil It didn't move. But for thos-i sharp eyes they might have thought It dead One of them stole around I. hind It and suddenly pounced on II 1'nder his feet the back of this strange creature felt as hard as stone But he didn't have time to think about It. That short head swiftly shot out and back and a pair of wicked looking Jaws snapped so close "Till Is snapper, the Snapping Turtle," Tur-tle," Mid he. tn the nose of that venturesome ittlo ' Fox that he fell over backwards nil I In a heap. In fact all the little Foxes 1 j Jumped backward Then the strange creature straightened his tan out. boohed his fet out mi slowly be-. be-. gsn to waddle towar Is the Laugnln i Brook They saw now fiat he hud surprisingly long n.-. k My. my. my, how excltM those four, little Foxes becani Thv Jumped about and made li'tlc rushes it this I queer fellow, but none quite da.ed , touch him He k p rlghr ot. us as If they w.ro not there Tho young Foxes hecam niu:o exclt d thfcP. e " and they grew lptj r. On.- .if thini nipped at that OjUeot tal' A cliarp' hiss warned him nv t. t.y ;t agjii). ' I'resently noddy Fox came over to see what th t nckot was about. ?Io wis Just In time to see one o' those young Foxes lift a p.iw as If to strike, at the head of that queer creature. With a liound Reddy sent th.it young ' Fox sprawling Then shnrplv he or- 1 lered all the other young Foxes to j keep away "This Is Snapper the Snapping Turtle" Tur-tle" said he. Whatever you do I keep away from this fellow when yju j meet him He could take nn of our, paws off at a single t,te He is a ilan-gei'ous ilan-gei'ous fellow Just look at those JHWS ! of Ills, they are made for cutting, .md i he can snap that heno" of Ms around like a flash. It is lucky I got hre when I did, or one of you lUrely would have bi en hur' " (Copyright. 1922. by T. W Burge) The next story "The Foxes Find la I'oustn of Bnapper'a.1 |