Show BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN by THORNTON W BURGESS LIGHTFOOT IS RECKLESS M uis HIS search for the new stranger ri 1 who had come to the green forest lightfoot the deer was wholly reckless he no longer stole like a gray shadow from thicket to thicket as he had done when searching for miss Dainty foot lie ile bounded along careless of how much noise he made F from rom time to time he would stop to whistle i challenge and to clash his horns Z there Is going to be some great excitement cit ement here when lightfoot discovers this fellow thought sammy against the trees and stamp the ground with his feet after such exhibitions of anger he be would pause to listen hoping to hear some bole sound which would tell him where the stranger was now kow and then he found the strangers tracks and front from them he be knew that this stranger was doln doing just what he had been doing seeking to find the beautiful aless Dainty foot each time he be found these signs lightfoots lightfoote Light foots rage increased of course it take sammy jay long to discover what was going on there is little that escapes those sharp eyes of sammy jay As you know he be had early discovered the game of hide and seek lightfoot had been playing with the beautiful young visitor who had come down to the green forest from the great mountain then by chance sammy had visited the laughing h crook brook just as the big stranger had come down there to drink for once sammy had kept his tongue still there is going to be excitement here when ll lightfoot 1 hotfoot discovers this fellow thought sammy it if they ever meet and I 1 have a feeling that they wll there Is going to be a fight worth seeing I 1 must pass the word around so sammy jay hunted up his cousin blacky the crow and told him whai what he had discovered then he hunted up bobby coon and told him he saw Unc Billy Dilly possum sitting in the doorway ot of his hollow tree and told him he discovered jumper the hare sitting under a little hemlock tree and told him then he flew fiew over to the dear old drier brier patch to tell peter rabbit babbit of course he told drummer the woodpecker tommy tit the chickadee and yank yank the nuthatch who were over in the old orchard and they at once hurried to the green forest for they think of missing anything so exciting as would be the meeting between tween lightfoot Lilt foot and the big stranger from the areat great mountain sammy forget to tell paddy the beaver but it was now news to paddy paddy had seen the big 7 stranger on the ed edge ge of his pond ea early aly the night before 6 of course lightfoot knew nothing about all this ills his one thought was to find the big stran stranger er and drive him from the green forest and so he continued his search tirelessly T W burgess service |