Show az m thornton thorn ton W burgess 7 C at BILLY billt MINK TRAILS HIS i BREAKFAST it ahi RILLY ILLY MINK had overslept over slept this awas alii was very unusual for billy iu Usually ally he was watching for the th fc farmer to bring him his breakfast debut this morning billy had over gy slept he knew it the minute his opened right away he scram gabled out to see what had been left him for breakfast he found noth ieng I 1 na he bli blinked n ked two or three times rebr r for he had become so used to find ting his breakfast right there at the indge edge of the woodpile that he nt believe there was none adhere here for him that morning but there a thing there sven even the tiniest scrap billy began to 0 wonder if someone had stolen his while he slept rj right away he put his nose to he ground and began to run about 0 ibis way and that way he was crying maying to find out if something had put there and then taken away ahe knew that if anything had been 60 ere he would be able to smell it arf rhe irhe has a very wonderful little I 1 fe ose se agul presently a very delicious smell abts ckles that wonderful little nose yass aliat liat at is it was a very delicious atte nell ell to billy it have een en delicious to you you would i ft ave ve called it a very bad smell it si as the smell of fish and not fresh sh h at that aio billy began to gallop along with g si bell s nose to the ground following that S nell he care who saw him jlou see he had become so at home id fi i that farmyard that he felt quite heo i life afe there he and tle the farmer had adt ome very good friends there of I 1 ibias as no dog to fear and billy afraid of the cat he had just one thought in mind and that was to find out what had become of that fish he was sure it had been meant for him whoever had taken it away had dragged it along the ground so it was easy for billy to follow the smell he was trailing his breakfast in just the same way hs he had fol followed the rats in the barn straight across the barnyard the trail led and over to the shed at the back of the house there just in front of a hole under the floor of the shed billy found the fish his eyes sparkled and he wasted no time he began to eat that fish at once he stop to wonder who had dragged it there he care it was his fish and he intended to make sure of it when he had finished that last scrap billy felt so stuffed that he want to move any more than he had to he looked over to the wa woodpile odzile and then he looked at the hole under the shed the woodpile was too far away he felt sure that he would find a nice comfortable dark place under that shed without hesitating nesi tating a he disappeared through the hole 0 T W burgess service |