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Show JeIedtime storo certain place beyond the Big Rock. Hooty was interested. He turned so as to sail over the Big Rock and then saw that something was going on underneath. For just an instant Jerry's head appeared. That was enough. Hooty understood. Chuckling softly, Hooty turned back toward the Green Forest. "I know what's going on," he chuckled. "I know what's going on. He's building a new house. By and by It will be above water. He will be so busy building he may forget to watch out. If he does I am just the fellow who wants to be around. Just let him once forget for-get when I am about and he will have no more use for a new house. Now, I'll stay away from the Smiling Smil-ing Pool for a few nights. It won't do to have him see me about." . 1933, by T. W. Burgess. WNU Service. HOOTY, THE OWL, DISCOVERS DIS-COVERS WHAT IS GOING ON To-whoo I To-whoo ; To-whoo-whoo-whoo I What may a hungry fellow do? S'O SAID Hooty the Owl as he 1 waited for the Black Shadows to creep out from the Purple Hills. It was Just the hour when Hooty always Is hungry. You see he had had nothing to eat since just before daylight that morning, and then it had been a mere bite, a careless little mouse. All day Hooty had slept In the top of his favorite tree in the lonesomest part of the Green Forest. Now he was wide awake and waiting only for Mr. Sun to go to Bed, taking with him his children, the Jolly Little Sunbeams. Sun-beams. You see, Hooty the Owl does not like them. They try to blind him. They never succeed, for though many people don't think is clever. He is very clever indeed. You know how he flies without making a sound, for all the world like a drifting shadow. But with all his cleverness Hooty never had been able to catch Jerry Muskrat. He had tried times enough, goodness good-ness knows. Ever since Jerry was big enough to leave his mother, and even before, Hooty had tried and tried to catch Jerry. As he waited for the change to the Black Shadows, Hooty was thinking of Jerry and wondering why It was he had seen him so seldom during the past summer. The reason was that having no house in the Smiling Pool, Jerry had lived in his castle in the bank of the Laughing Brook. Hooty had not known this. At last it was dark enough to suit him and on silent wings Hooty sailed out from the Green Forest straight .for the Smiling Pool. As he drew near he saw right away that the water was quite muddy and that it was muddiest near a Now Hs Was Wide Awake and Waiting Wait-ing Only for Mr. Sun to Go to Bed. so, Hooty can see very well indeed in daytime, but the dusk is easier on his big eyes, and so he waits until then to do his hunting. Now, one of the first places Hooty visits every night Is the Smiling Pool. Had he had a mind to, Hooty could tell dark stories of things which have happened in the Smiling Pool, strange disappearances disappear-ances among the little people who live there. At least they were strange to 'all but Hooty. The truth Is, in or around the Smiling Pool Hooty has found many a good dinner. din-ner. In his own peculiar way Hooty |