Show BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN by THORNTON W 13 BURGESS A DIFFERENT GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK 0 ONCE NCE more lightfoot Light toot the deer was playing hide and seek in the green forest but it was a different game than the one he had played just a short time before you remember that then it had been for his life t that hat lie he had played he was the one who had done all the aidin hiding g now tie be was w as it and some one else was doing the hiding instead of the dreadful adful tear fear which had f filled him in that other game he was now filled fil ledwith with longing ion ing longing to make friends with the beautiful stranger of whom he had caught just a glimpse but of whom every 1 day aay he found tracks at times lightfoot would lose his temper yes res sir lightfoot e would lose his temper that was a foolish thing to do but it seemed to him that h he e just help it he would stamp his feet an angrily and thrash the bushes with his great sp spreading g antlers anglers as it if they were an enemy with whom he was fighting more than once when ae e did this a great pair of 4 great reat soft gentle eyes were watching him though he know it if he could have seen them and the look of admiration in them he would have been more eager than illan ever to find that beautiful st stranger anger at other times lightfoot would steal about through the green forest as noiselessly as a r shadow he would peer into thickets and behind tangles tang agles of fallen trees and brush piles hoping to surprise the one he sought he would be very very patient perhaps he would come to a thicket which he knew from the signs the stranger had left only a few moments before then his patience would vanish in ampa tience and he would dash ahead eager to catch up with the shy stranger put but always it was in vain he had thought himself very clever but this stranger stran ger was proving herself more clever of course tt it long before all the little people in the green forest knew what was going on they knew all about that game of hide and seek lust just as they had L known all about that other game of hide and seek with the hunters put but now instead of trying to help lightfoot as they did t then ben they gave him no help at all the tact fact is they were enjoying that game mischievous sammy S arnay jay even went so far as to warn the str stranger stradder aDger several times when lightfoot was approaching pro aching of course lightfoot knew when sammy did this and each time he lost his bis temper for the time being in he quite forgot all that S sammy ammy had done for him when he was the one being hunted once lightfoot almost ran into buster bear and was so provoked by his own carelessness that instead of bounding aw away y he actual actually ily threatened to fig fight lit buster but when buster grinned good natu at him llo lightfoot thou thought lit better of it and bounded away to continue his search then there were times when ll 11 lightfoot bt would sulk and would declare over and over to himself 1 I dont care anything about that stran stranger 0 ger I 1 wont spend another minute looking for her and then within five minutes he be would be watching listening and seek seeking ing some sign that she was still in the green F forest orest 0 T W burgoss auressa Bu ressa w service |