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Show "IAffle St oxies M c -Burgess vwmdVrv again right away, but spent a lot of time with his terrible gun looking for Glutton, While he was off look-ing look-ing for him Glutton came to his house with his stout claws and tore a hole In the roof and got inside. Of course, I don't know what he did in there, but I have an idea that when that trapper came back he didn't find any food fit to eat there. Anyway, the next day he took his canoe and went away, and I did not see him again until the day before I left when he came back with a lot more wings, xuou, I guess. "I'm Just wondering if Glutton will get those things or If he will get Glutton, or if Glutton has gone somewhere else. Served the man right for trying to trap the little people who wear fur. I don't like Glutton. No one does. But cer-talnly cer-talnly was glad to see that he was smarter than that trapper." ((H b J. O. tloyfl.) WNU Servlc. GLUTTON AND THE TRAPPER PETER RABBIT couldn't Bit still. You know how full of curiosity be is and how dearly he loves a story. He had listened quite breathlessly while Honker the Goose told how Glutton the Wolverine Wol-verine had found all the traps of the trapper up there In the Far North where Honker was spending the summer. "What did the trapper trap-per do when he found that all his traps had been pulled out in plain voice Of course, I don't know what he said, but 1 can guess. He went from one trap to another, and the farther he got the angrier he grew. But getting angry didn't do him any good. It never does any one any good. So at last he stopped getting angry. Anyway, he stopped showing his anger, and went to work to set the traps over again and again, and this time he took more care than ever to set them. Then he got a piece of meat and around U he hid a lot of stout traps. I guess that was Just for Glutton. I suppose he thought that if Glut-. ton found one there he would think , that that was all and might step! into one Of the others while he was eating the meat "I Just hung around where 1 could watch. The very next day along came Glutton. My, but that fellow is smart I I Just had to laugh. The first thing he did was to hunt for a trap. When he found It he pulled It out. Then what do you think he did?" "Gobbled up that meat and stepped in one of the other traps and was caught I" cried Peter excitedly, ex-citedly, v, ' , - "Nothing of the kind," replied Honker. "He didn't even look at that meat He went right on hunting hunt-ing Jor traps until he had found every one. It was Just as if he had seen that hunter set those traps, but he hadn't When he had found the last one he Just walked over to that piece of meat and ate every scrap of It. Then he went on pulling pull-ing out the traps which had been set for other little people just as before, and when he had eaten so much that he couldn't eat another mouthful he Just spoiled the rest of the baits so that no one else would eat them. "When that trapper found that Glutton had. played that trick on him again he didn't set his traps He Went on Hunting for Traps Until Un-til He Had Found Every One. sight and all the bait taken?" asked Peter eagerly. Honker chuckled. It was a deep i throaty chuckle. "He lost his tern-! tern-! per," said he. "I've seen Buster j Bear lose bis temper," said he. ' Honker looked over at Buster, and i Buster looked foolish. "But Bus-- Bus-- ter is nothing to what that man was when he lost his temper. He talked to himself la a very loud |