Show it little stories R tz 1111 ya W y THE WHITE HUNTER A A COUT BOUT the time that peter rabbit ta had reached the green forest that night after the first snow a slim trim little fellow yawned dawned rubbed his big eyes yawned dawned again pd and then abruptly made up his mind that he was hungry and that it was time to do some hunting lie ile scrambled up to the doorway of his home aich which BBS as in a snug hollow under tile roots of an oil old tree in the green forest and thrust his lead head out the ground was white the trees were white everything was white lie he smiled as he be sat there looking out at the white world and his smile was a crafty cruel hungry smile that white world just suited him it have hare suited him better if you had been there when nhen he made hn his first leap out into the snow you would have understood right away why by lie he was so well pleased ills coat was as n 06 now as he bounced along in long leaps there was a fierce joy in his heart white as the snow I 1 lie ile was all white except the tip of ills his tall tail and tl that bat was as black it was shadow the weasel now of all the hunters of the green none done bm smarter arter none there la is F forest orest than tireless none more eager more P shadow ba dv the we weasel ace reddy fox and d tile the owl and man ian coyote an old stomachs and v when he n hunt to fill their stomachs full they have hare their they for hunts hunting iut but shadow stop ile he of b tinting bunting when joy the pure eat he lie he can much as killed as has no I 1 ile he keeps keep a oll oh my not boop does lie ile Is like a great hunting right on hunters it Is for legged many two and iati feared tills this that lie Is no 90 of the green for by bv the little people est now as he bounded along in long leaps there was a fierce joyin joy in his bel heart with everything yelte B h ite he could be even bolder than usual for or in his pure white coat not even the wrathful eyes of booty the owl thel the I 1 one enemy lie he really feared would be likely to see him it was very convenient veni ent that white coat he ran swiftly with long bounds stopping stepping only to investigate the old logs and stumps and brush isales iles that he came to each of these he examined very carefully there might be a wood mouse hiding there and shadow Is too good a hunter to be careless so presently he came to the tracks of peter rabbit for just a second shadow smelled of the tracks with his keen little nose than which there Is none keener ills ids eyes brightened with eagerness hal said shadow he passed here not very long ago nothing w would or could suit me better for dinner than peter rabbit this cold air makes me hungry he know rm im about unless red dy fox or old sian blan coyote happens to give him a scare before I 1 catch up with him it ought not to be a long chase it was well for the wood mouse that shadow had bad found peters tracks after they left W bite foots hiding place instead of before he Is such a slim allm fellow that he be could have and would have slipped in at the little doorway and made an end of presently shadow came to the place where peter had followed the tracks of happy jack squirrel Il hello lello exclaimed ow has that fellow returned re to the green forest ill just keep an eye open for him hereafter thon then he paid no more attention to nappy jacks tracks but kept right on after peter presently he came to the tracks of jimmy skunk ile he knew right away whose tracks they were you know jimmy Is a cousin to shadow when he saw those tracks he scowled ile he and jimmy are not on the best of terms besides at first he thought jimmy was following peter and that would upset his plans but in n R few minutes he saw tb that at peter had been following jimmy ind and that made him easier to in mind ne he felt still a till better when jimmys tracks ended at the hole under the old stump where jimmy had made his home for the winter shadow sniffed at the doorway and then showed all his sharp teeth in an ugly snarl lies hes down in there ind and im glad of that lie he muttered and then with longer bounds than ever he kept on after peter 0 by J G lloyd ervle Erv Ear lc |