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Show AR'S A FALLEN HEROl Weekly Bedtime Story for the Kiddies fly, have nothing to fear from Buster, Bus-ter, and who always delight in making other people uncomfortable, never let a chance go by to tell Buster and everybody else within hearing what they thought of him. They delighted in flying about through the Green Forest until they found Buster Bear and then from the safety of the tree tops screaming scream-ing at him: Buster Bear is big and strong; His teeth are big; his claws are long; In spite of these he runs away And hides himself the livelong day! A dozen times a day Buster would hear them screaming this. He would grind his teeth and glare- up, at them, but that was all he could do. He couldn't get at them. He just had to stand it and do nothing. Walker of Lindon suffered sev A FALLEN hero is someone to whom every one has looked up as very brave and then proves to be less brave than he was supposed to be. That was the way with Buster Bus-ter Bear. When Little Joe Otter had old all he little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadow how Farmer Brown's boy had been afraid at the very sight of one of Buster Bear's big footprints foot-prints they had at once made a hero of Buster, at least some of them had. You see they thought that if Farmer Brown's boy was afraid of Buster, why, of course, Buster couldn't be afraid of Farmer Brown's boy. And as this was the first time, the very first time, that they had ever known any one who lives in the Green Forest to make Farmer Brown's boy run away they looked on Buster Bear with a great ' deal of respect and were very proud of him. But now they had seen Buster Bus-ter Bear and Farmer Brown's boy meet face to face, and while it is true that Farmer Brown's boy had run away as fast as ever he could, it was also true that Buster Bear had done the same thing. He had run even faster than Farmer Brown's boy and had hidden in the most lonely place he could find in the very deepest part of the Green Forest. It was hard to believe, but it was true. And right away everybody every-body lost a great deal of the respect for him which they had felt. It is always that way. They began to say unkind things about him. They said them among themselves, and some of them even said them to Buster when they met him, or said them so that he would hear them. Of course Blacky the Crow and Sammy Jay, who, because they can '' , W flu jj. K ft ft k li h C n v. . He would grind his teeth and glare up at them, but it was all he could do. But when impudent little Chatterer the Red Squirrel shouted the same thing from a place just out of reach in a big pine tree Buster could stand it no longer. He gave a deep angry scowl that made little shivers run over Chatterer and then suddenly started up that tree after Chatterer. With a frightened little shriek Chatterer Chat-terer scampered to the top of the tree. He hadn't known that Buster could climb. But Buster is a splendid splen-did climber, especially when the tree is big and stout as this one was, and now he went up after Chatterer. How Chatterer did wish that he had kept his tongue still! He ran to the very top of the tree, so frightened that his teeth chattered, and when he looked down and saw those great teeth coming nearer and nearer he nearly tumbled down with terror. The worst of it was there wasn't another tree near enough for him to jump to. He was in trouble this time! T. W. Burgcss.-WNU Service. |
