Show BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN by THORNTON W BURGESS BILLY MINK BECOMES suspicious P ALL the little people in the 0 OF green forest there Is none with sharper eyes and keener wits than billy slink mink nothing goes on along the LaUghl laughing Dg brook from its start in the green forest to where it joins the big river that billy mink know about billy Is a great traveler he Is so full of life and energy that he cannot keep still very long at a time moreover billy Is one of those little people to whom it makes no difference whether jolly round bright mr sun Is shining or gentle mistress V T I 1 21 billy mink followed the man down the laughing brook moon has taken ills place up in the sky or the black shadows have wrapped everything in darkness lie ile takes a nap whenever lie he feels sleepy and whenever he feel sleepy he travels up lap and down the laughing brook in these little journeys back and forth nothing escapes billys bright eyes and sharp ears and keen nose being such a slim fellow he slips in and out of holes and hiding places which no one save his big cousin shadow the weasel could get into now kow it happened that one day billy curled up in a hollow log under a pile of brush close to the lau laughing hing brook in a jiffy he be was asleep blight in tile the middle of the pleasant est of pleasant dreams he was awakened instantly he was wide awake ile he was just as wide awake as if 1 he be been asleep at all without stopping to think anything about it it he knew what had bad awakened him some one had just passed his hiding biding place noiselessly billy crept out of the hollow log and peeped from under the pile of brush walking down the bank of the laughing brook was a man ive never seen that fellow before 11 muttered billy to himself it farmer browns boy and it farmer brown lie he seems to be looking for something I 1 wonder what he Is about I 1 think ill watch him so as silently as a shadow billy slink followed the man down the laughing brook and the man once suspect it you see cilly billy can always find a hiding place it if it be no more than a heap of brown leaves lie he just slipped from one hiding biding place to another always keeping the man in sight billy became more and more inter es asted ted and inquisitive as he watched that man the man certainly did seem to be looking for something ne he would examine every half sunken log in the laughing brook lie ile searched carefully every little hole it take billy long to discover that this man seemed to be especially interested in those places where billy almost always went when hen traveling up and down the laughing brook billy stopped and rubbed his big nose thoughtfully ile he was growing suspicious pi cious clous 1 I wonder thought billy it if he be Is looking for me ID T W burgau service lc |