| Show BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN bathorn bythorn by THORNTON TON W BURGESS BILLY MINK FINDS A TRAP por two days billy mink saw nothing FOR F more of the man who had made him suspicious but this make billy feel any easier in his mind he had bad a feeling that that man had visited the ithe laughing brook for no good puri pose he had a feeling that that bat visit ahad had something to do with himself so Billy became more watchful than ever and traveled up and down the length jot ol 01 the laughing brook more often than ever trying with eyes and nose to find out just what that man had been about the third day after that first visit the man came again billy saw him tic he crossed back and forth from one bank to another almost as soon as he reached the laughing brook but not quite the man had come down the laughing brook a little way before billy discovered him just as he had done the first time billy followed the man down the laughing brook just as before the man seemed to be looking for some thing billy watched him until finally he tramped off through the green forest then billy turned and hurried back to the place where he had first seen the man that morning he do anything while j 1 watched him but poke about and seem to be looking for something muttered billy 1 I wonder it if he did anything else before I 1 discovered him I 1 think ill look to see that everything Is all right up the laughing brook so S 0 billy went up the laughing brook above the place where he had first seen the man that morning he crossed back and forth from one bank to the he other and he examined every stick and 10 log and hole as he went along being suspicious he took the greatest care not to step anywhere until he had first looked to make sure that it was safe his nose told him just where the man had been but for some time he found nothing suspicious everything was just as it should be nevertheless billy was filled with uneasiness he get rid of a feeling that something was wrong somewhere presently he came to a hole la in the bank a hole with which he was very familiar from that hole came the most appetizing in smell now billy was hungry he had spent so much time following that strange man that he had had no chance to eat for some time the smell from that hole was of fish that fish was in the back of the hole there was no doubt about that all billy had to do was to go in and get it and that is what he was tempted to do then in a flash a thought came to him there never had been a fish in there before so why should there be now with the greatest care billy began t to 0 examine everything around that h hole ole in the water just at the entrance to that hole were some dead leaves held down by a little bit of mud billy remember ever seeing those leaves before very cautiously he reached out and lifted them underneath was a trap 0 T W burgess Burgo aa W service |
