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Show A. A. A BEB5THBBE STHY k By TSSOKrVTOM V. BUKGESS jj JOHNNY CHUCK. TRIES TO ENJOY HIS NEW HOME JOHNNY CHUCK was shaking In J bis skin and ashamed to admit it, lie could hear Sammy .lay call ing to him. saying that there was nothing to be afraid of and to come out. lie was afraid of Sammy's sharp tongue if he didn't go out, for Sammy would like nothing better than to go about telling that be. Johnny Chuck, was a coward. At the same time Johnny was afraid of that terrible unknown monster whose voice had sent him scurrying Inside his house in such fright. "It is all very well for Sammy lieve that It was a very much finer home than the old one In the far corner and that he wouldn't go back there for anything in the world. It was true that there was a great deal more going on there than near the old home. You see there was a great deal of passing along the dusty road just the other side of the old stone wall. This was exciting, but not at all restful. It kept him always ready to dart down inside his house. He couldn't doze In peace as he had loved to do In the doorway door-way of the old borne. Then, too, the dust was very provoking. pro-voking. It swept over him every time an auto rushed past. It made all the grass, even the patch of sweet clover some distance away, gritty and unpleasant to eat. His doorstep was not shaded in the least. Some days it got so hot that Johnny almost burned his little black feet. Still Johnny tried to make himself believe that he was enjoying his new home, and that it was ever and ever so much nicer than his old one. . 1933. by T. W. Burgesa. WNU Service. Jay to say there Is no danger. Probably Prob-ably there isn't for him; he has wings and can fly away," grumbled Johnny, as half way up his hall he listened for more sounds of the thing that had frightened him so. "I know all about that thing that frightened you so and if you will come up I'll tell you all about it. If yon keep out of the dusty road it is perfectly harmless. Everybody around here knows about it and nobody is afraid of it. If you don't come out I'll tell all the neigh- Then Sammy Demanded to Know What Johnny Was Doing Ud There. bors and you'll be laughed at the rest of your life. Come out ; I want to talk to you," said Sammy Jay So Johnny Chuck went up far enough to poke his bead out of his doorway and then Sammy Jay told him as best he could that an automobile auto-mobile was nothing to be afraid of if you keep out of Its way, and its way was always on the dusty road or sometimes up In Farmer Brown's dooryard. Then Sammy demanded to know what Johnny was doing up there and why Polly wasn't with liitn. Johnny told Sammy that he had moved because he thought he had lived long enough In the old home and wanted to live where he could see more of the Great World. He had left Polly behind, he explained, ex-plained, until he should have a fine home ready for her. Sammy winked one eye, for he understood exactly what had happened. But Johnny didn't see his wink and went on to explain how much better this place was than the far corner of the Old Orchard where his old home was. When he had finished Sammy wished him a great deal of happiness happi-ness in his new home, told him that lie surely would see a great deal more of the Great World there, and said that he admired Johnny's spirit and independence. Then he flew away chuckling. Johnny didn't see anything to chuckle about, and he was a very thoughtful Chuck as he at last started to get his breakfast break-fast After he had found where the nearest clover patch was and had found out just how long it would take him to get from it to the safety of his house In time of dan ger. and after lie had become fulh acquainted with his surroundings al: of which took several days, .lohnin settled down to enjoy Ids new Num. lie did his best to n,:!n.- be |