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Show "IMe Tories 0 Bedfimeyl Thornfon."W29jfp a Wolverine la very smart, A fact which no on can deny, A pity 'tis his nimble wtta ' In better ways he doei not try. j WHAT GLUTTON DID IT IS always a pity when nimble wits are used in wrong ways. But they often ure. It Is so with Glutton the Wolverine, and It Is a lucky thing for the little people of the Green Meadows and the Oreen Forpst that he lives only Id the Great Woods of the Far North. Otherwise they would have far more troubles than they do now, and goodness knows they have enough as it is. As Buster Bear said. Glutton Is very smart, and Buster's eyes twinkled as he prepared to listen night, so I didn't see many. Every once In a -hlle that trapper would go all around to look at bis traps and kill the poor little people who were caught, if they were not already al-ready dead. Then he would set the traps again and put more food there. It was dreadful." "Traps always are dreadful," growled Buster. "One morning I happened to look over the shore, and there was Glutton Glut-ton the Wolverine. I swam ovei to tell him about those traps, but be Just laughed at me. "You can't tell me anything about them," said he In that ugly way of bis, 'I know more about them you'll ever learn.' Guess be did, too, for what do yon think he was doing?" "What?" cried Peter Rabbit, who was listening with all his might. "He was following that trapper all around, eating up the food at each trap and then, pulling up the trap, leaving it where everybody could aee It There wasn't one of those traps hidden so that he couldn't find It and pull it out without with-out getting caught In It." - Buster chuckled. "Didn't I tell yon that Glutton Is smartT" said ha "I'd like to have seen that trapper when be came around the next time." , "I did," replied Ilonker. (tffl br J. Q. Lloyd.) WNU Service. "Trappers Are Forever Trying to Catch You Who Wear Fur Coats." to what Honker the Goose had to tell him about Glutton. You know Ilonker had stopped Just for tUe night in the Pond of Puddy Reaver, deep In the Green Forest, and was full of news from the Far North, from which he had Just come. "Tou now those trappers who are forever trying to catch you peo- pie who wear fur coats," began Ilonker. "I should say I do I" growled Buster Bear In his deep gruiubly-rumbly gruiubly-rumbly voice. "I never could understand un-derstand why these men folks can't be content with their own coats instead of trying to steal ours." Honker chuckled. "I've always said that a coat of feathers was better than a coat of tar. They never try to trap me." "No, but they try to shoot you to eat, and that is Just as bad," growled Buster. Honker stopped chuckling. That's true," he admitted. "I've been wondering If it Is quite safe for me here." "Perfectly safe, for tonight anyway," any-way," growled Buster. "Now what was It you saw Glutton do?" "Well," began Honker once more "a little while before I left my summer home In the Far North one of those trapper-men came to live on the shore of the lake where 1 lived and built a queer little house there. He made It out of logs and put a roof of bark on It When he had finished that he took a lot of traps In bis canoe all around the shore of that lake and back In the woods and aloni the brooks that flowed into the lake. He bad ever and ever so many traps, and if took falm days and days to set all of them. I could see him when lie was at work close to the shore of the lake, but I never could find any of the traps after be had set thera, though I went straight over to the places where he had been at work just as soon as he had left. Sometimes I found the food he had left there to tempt the little peo- Cle for whom he had set the traps, ut I never could Bee the traps themselves. He was cry smart, was that trapper. "Of course, I told everybody whom I met bat you see, I sleep at |