Show ITHE THE CHILDREN IS EVENING TALE i by THORNTON W BURGESS THE OWL ERS WHAT IS GOING ON ON to chool to to chool I 1 what may a hungry fellow do 0 SAID booty the owl as lie he waited S SO for the clack black shadows to creep out from the purple hills it was just the hour when booty always Is hungry you see he had had nothing to eat since just before daylight in alight that moral morning ng and then it had bad been a mere aa 0 now he was wa wide awake and waiting only for mr sun to go to bed bite a careless little mouse all day snooty had bad slept in the top of his favorite tree in the loneso part of the green forest now he was wide awake and waiting only for mr sun to go to bed taking with him his children the jolly little sunbeams you see booty the owl does not like them they try to blind him they never succeed for though many people dont think so can see very well indeed in daytime but the dusk Is easier on his big eyes eye and so he waits until mr sun has gone to bed to do his hunting now one of the first places booty visits every night Is the smiling pool fool booty always has taken great inter est in all that goes BOPS on in the smiling pool had he a mind to booty could tell dark stories of things which have happened in the smiling pool strange disappearances among the little people nho ho live there at least they were strange to all but the truth Is in or around the smiling pool fool booty has found many a good dinner in his own peculiar way Is clever lie he Is very clever indeed you know how he tiles lies without making a sound for all the lie world like a drifting slin shadow dow but with all his cleverness booty neer neica had been able to catch jerry muskrat iltis hrat lie he had tried times enough goodness knows ever since jerry was big enough to leave his mother and even before booty had bad tried and tried to catch jerry at first it was because jerry was young and tender now it was becil because list b he U was so big and would make such saco a satisfying dinner As he waited for the change to the black shadows booty was thinking of jerry and wondering why it was he lipid had see been n him filin so seldom during the past ou summer the reason creaso n was that having no house in the smiling pool jerry had lived in his hl castle castle in in the the bank of the laughing brook had not known this at last it was dark enough to suit salt him and on silent wings booty sailed out from the green forest straight for the smiling pool As he drew near lie saw right away that the water was quite muddy and that it was mud diest near a certain place beyond the nig big nock was nag interested ne he turned so as to sail over the rig big rock itoch and then saw that something was go going on underneath path for just an instant jerrys hen head appeared that was enough understood chuckling softly booty turned back toward the green forest 1 I know going gain 0 on ii he chuckled 1 I know going ong on iles hes building a new house uy by and by it will be above water ile he will be so busy ausy building lie be may forget to watch out if lie does docs I 1 am just the lellow fellow who i to wants to be around just let him once forget when I 1 am about and he will have no more use for a new house 1 now ill stay away from the smiling pool for a few nights I 1 tt t wont do to have him see me about C 1933 by T W burea service |