Show EVE K 91 FAIRYTALE R I 1 RY TALE ay iy ay f maty mary mat y graham bonnet bonner THE ROOSTERS IDEAS nick find and hall had come abna aguin again they had left their cou cousins 1115 feeling very happy for all now were tere such good friends antl anil they were ere better friends than ever before afler tile visit which made everything very nice to tell to daddy some of tile emals from the barnyard belonging to tile tha house houe where the cousins ihei had been taken over by daddy tor for the cousins were going to move to the city and they wanted their animals to be e among friends they had only taken their dog with them sir benjamin bacon and sir per rival pork now two of the leading pigs of the pig pl pen were having a fight over some food but mr red crown rooster was paying no attention to them nick kick and nancy had been feeding all ali the animals and now nov they were more listening to sir mr rooster Il ooster who was vas talking fit at the top of lila ills voice or crowing as its his talk Is usually called in tile the good old days said mr iner rooster folks paid attention to me they may think a lot ot of miss fidgety fashionable lien hen now that her egg have become so scarce but they dont pay halt half enough atte attention nilon to a good natured kindly old rooster now last summer I 1 had a narrow escape I 1 was cro crossing shig the road when one of these bor horrible dust throwers th rowers came along hy by a lust dust thrower I 1 mean a motor car or an automobile or whatever it its IB they are called this one lifts had the usual horrid horn attached to it arid and how low that horn did toot I 1 hurried out ot of the and I 1 was mas almost nearly run over oear dear me but it was a narrow escape escape I 1 might lave have lost ray my life true they did warn nie me they were coining but what creatures motors are the vry very idea of 0 telling a fellow to get out of the way NRY in such a rude manner and think of the service I 1 have always done people 1 I have awakened them in inthe the morning true they have grumbled they have said that just because I 1 was an early riser it was no reason I 1 should try to wake people up but I 1 knew v what hat was good for them 1 I knew they be staying in bed so long I 1 knew they should be getting up and enjoying the sunlight and working find and not wasting time 1 I feet feel a friendly feeling tor for that alarm clock niel nick and nancy talk about that alarm clock gets abused too it seems to my rooster mind that alarm clocks lend lead very slid sad lives they see that children arent late to school and that men arent late to business and that ladles ladies see that the breakfast breal crast is on time but do they get thanked for it not a bit of it ive heard people say oh I 1 could have killed that old alarm clock tills this morning I 1 was having baying a nice sleep and it carein the least now the alarm clock was doing dolani its duty it was seeing that whoever was in the tha room with it late that was most important so I 1 feel a friendly feeling for the alarm clock for I 1 have been abused too but I 1 could stand all that if only I 1 could still be the king ot of the barnyard now that motors have come coma along the motor horn is treating us nil all as slaves making us rush this way and that from one side of the tha road to the other I 1 am against all things modern im for the good old days when a crowing rooster was thought to be a creature worth while it may be all rl right bt for miss fidgety fashionable lien to live in these modern lays days but they are sad days for thi th rooster what are you crowing about old red crown asked nick yes you have a lot to say for yourself said nancy im dreading the summer and the said red crown but the summer has just past said nancy you be so upset and you do seem upset about something I 1 guess ill give you an extra handful of grain im dreading next summer said red crown but I 1 feel a little better now ive two good friends in a good old barnyard after all maybe the automobile will igo go out of date and the he motor birds of the air the airplanes peanea will take their places then toot their horns for creatures to get off the clouds and the good old roosters of the barnyard will rule as they used to rule in that case im for the days to come but I 1 do dread next summer for this last one lias has been a hard hard on one lie ended |