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Show ; LjEDTIME STORO. down the dusty road early that morning. When he reached the corner cor-ner where Johnny Chuck's house was, of course, he heard the racket made by the birds and knew right away that something was going on. lie stopped to listen. Mingled with cries of the birds were snarls and growls. Bowser scrambled ap to the bank and looked over the stone walL One glance was enough HOW THE GREAT FIGHT ENDED TP f 113 little people of the Old Or-A Or-A chard still tell about the great fight which happened up near the corner by the dusty road. Of course, Sammy Jay saw the start of It because be-cause he was right there. And of course It wasn't long before everybody every-body In the Old Orchard who could flv was rip-lit nil I GPLlQAQP I all that went on, for Sammy's voice reached even to the far corner where Polly Chuck was. So all the feathered folks forgot everything else and hurried over to see the fight. Such a racket as they made I Their tongues fairly flew as they shouted encouragement to Johnny Chuck. Johnny needed all the encouragement encourage-ment possible. To have fought Iieddy Fox alone would have been no small task, but to have to fight two at once was more than twice as bad. But Johnny Chuck Is not only stout in body, he Is stout in heart as well. "Coward I" he snarled, as Reddy Fox faced him. "Coward! Coward Cow-ard I You didn't dare face me "Broadcasting entertainers are not the only people who receive request re-quest letters," says delinquent De-lores, De-lores, "other people owe the butch-er, butch-er, the baker and the candlestick maker, too." . 1933. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. aione j Now, Mrs. Reddy had no mind to spoil her beautiful red coat If she could help It, so she was quite willing to sit by at first and let Roddy do the fighting. But Johnny Chuck knew that all the time she was watching for a chance to jump at him from behind, while Reddy held him helpless, so as he fought lie tried to keep both Reddy and Mrs. Reddy In front of him. After a little he was able to get his back to an apple tree and then he felt better. bet-ter. Reddy Fox tried his best to pull him away from this, but he couldn't Johnny Chuck was too big and heavy. Besides he was giving Reddy all he could do to keep from being torn by those sharp teeth. There right before him were Reddy and Mrs. Fox I With a roar Bowser was over the wall and half way to the fighters in the twinkling of an eye. At the sound of that voice Reddy and Mrs. Fox had but one thought, and that was to get away as fast as their legs would carry them. Like a red flash Mrs. Reddy leaped and darted down through the Old Orchard Orch-ard toward the Green Forest Rpd.1v It soon became clear that Reddy was getting a lit tie the worse of it Johnny's coat was tough. Underneath Under-neath that tough coat was a layer of fat and Reddy's teeth had to go through both the tough coat and the fat before they could do any real harm to Johnny Chuck. Mrs. Reddy would have tc help. So she watched, jumping this way and fiat way, for a chance to dodge in and seize Johnny where he would soon be made helpless. That this chunce was bound to come sooner or later she was sure. Now it happened that Bowser the Hound took it into his head to trot tried to do the same thing, but Johnny Chuck had set his teeth in Reddy's shoulder and not even the sound of Bowser's voice made him let go. He was beyond caring about Bowser. Reddy struggled with all his might and fear doubled his strength. Just in the nick of time he shook himself free and bounded away. Bowser merely glanced at Johnny Chuck and started after Reddy, his great voice waking all the echoes In the Green Forest. So ended the great fight of which the little people of the Old Orchard tell to this day. As for Johnny Chuck, he marched back to his house growling fiercely all the way and there on his doorstep he set about licking his wounds. 1933. by T. W. Burgess. WNU Service. |