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Show Thornton W Burgess watch while he hurried over to that patch of clover and get a bite or two. Sammy agreed at once. But Sammy is Just brimming over with mischief, as you know. Johnny was only half way to that patch of clover clo-ver when Sammy screamed. Back scrambled Johnny Chuck as fast as he could. When he found it was Just a Joke he scolded as only he can scold. That tickled Sammy Jay and he flew away laughing. You see. Sammy didn't know how very, very hungry Johnny Chuck was. By the time Jolly, round Mr. Sun went to bed behind the Purple Hills, hunger and fear had quite cured Johnny Chuck of obstinacy. He would start for home the first thing in the morning. . 1933. by T. W. Burgess. WNU Service. -t A CURE FOR OBSTINACY JOHNNY CHUCK was stiff and sore. It was the day after the great fglit. Johnny sat on his doorstep door-step and he was in anything but a happy state of mind. In the first place, each separate wound made by the teeth of Reddy Fox had a separate and distinct ache. No one who aches all over can be in a very happy state of mind. Then, too, Johnny was nervous. He kept turning his head every two there. If there had been no one there he wouldn't have minded, but Polly Chuck was there and Johnny Just couldn't make up his mind to go back and confess that he had been wrong in the first place. Of course, no one feeling that way could be in a very happy frame of mind. But what made him most unhappy of all was the fact that he was hungry hun-gry and all the time growing hungrier. hun-grier. Ho didn't go far enough away from his doorstep to get his breakfast, and he hadn't had much to eat the day before, nothing at all after the great fight. With longing long-ing eyes he looked over to the distant dis-tant clover patch. After his experience expe-rience of the day before he didn't dare go so far from his home. If he had been feeling all right he wouldn't have dared to. Stiff and sore as he was It was out of the question. He couldn't run and he couldn't fight. He tried to eat some of the grass near his (loorstep. It was thick with dust and so gritty and unpleasant to the taste that he managed to swallow only a little of It. So the morning passed and afternoon came. Late In the afternoon Sammy returned re-turned to see how Johnny was getting get-ting on. An idea came to Johnny. . 11 He would ask Sammy Jay to keep This Tickled Sammy Jay and He Flew Away Laughing. or three minutes to make sure that all was safe behind him. That stone wall which had seemed such a splendid splen-did protection when he built his house, in the corner of it now seemed a constant danger. Johnny imagined he heard enemies creeping creep-ing up on the other side of it. He expected to see me ueaa 01 neuuy Fox or Mrs. Reddy bob up over the top of that wall any minute. No one as nervous as that can be in a very happy frame of mind. Also Johnny was beginning to be quite honest with himself and to admit that he wished he never had thought of leaving his fine home in the far corner of the Old Orchard. He wished he was back there. He knew now that It was the very best place in all the Great World. At least, it was the very best place for him. But he was still too obstinate obsti-nate to make up his mind to go back |