Show BEDTIME STORY by THORNTON W BURGESS BURGES A FISH DINNER FOR TWO had become of the big WHAT afat fat fish that plunger the fish hawk had caught in the big river that king E eagle agle had forced him to drop that buster bear had claimed for his and over which buster bear and king eagle bagle had been quarreling most shamefully when king eagle had bad seen his chance he had bad swooped down to the place where the fish had fallen his claws outstretched to seize it but there was no fish there no sir there a sign of a fish king eagle flew up to the limb of a tree out of reach of buster bear just as buster snarling and growling all sorts of dreadful things came bushn rushing 0 ver over when buster could find no fish king eagle had somehow got it after nil all and this put him into still more of a rage if possible but as I 1 i N I 1 it 11 1 1 meanwhile granny fox and reddy fox were sitting down to the finest fish dinner they ever had he glared at king eagle he saw that there was no look iok of triumph in king aag eagles agles face as there surely would have been had he be obtained the fish instead there was a look which said as plainly as words where has that fish gone buster stared up at king eagle and king eagle stared down at buster and for afew a few minutes neither said a word the anger died out of their faces face s and into each in I 1 its t s place crept a look of foolishness what are we quarreling about asked king eagle nothing for there Is nothing to quarrel about replied buster bear quite as mildly did I 1 dream that a big fat fish fell from the 1 not unless I 1 dreamed that I 1 watched plunger the fish hawk catch one and then make him drop it chuckled king eagle 1 I had set my heart on a fish dinner dinder no more than I 1 had cepl replied led buster boar bear what we vre should have done was to divide that fish InSL instead VILU of quarreling over it 1 I wonder said king eagle slowly looking this way and that way suspiciously it if that fish swam away ran away or flew away its gone and the question Is how did it go it had bad to go somehow buster bear was very busy sniffing where tile the fish had fallen sniff sniff sniff 1 busters austers Bu nose Is very keen been and it tells him a great deal sniff sniff sniff I 1 A frown gathered on busters austers Bu face sniff sniff sniff 1 tile the frown grew heavier and his mt tle ile eyes eyes began to snap it was plain that buster bear was once more growing angry that fish RAN away it he e growled in his deep grumbly voice 1 I thought as much said king eagle ut it ran away on tour four legs continued buster bear whose legs asked king eagle the legs of old granny fox growled buster bear and hat means that she will have the dinner you cheated me out oil you tou mean that you cheated me out of retorted king eagle promptly and then what did these two buster bear and king eagle do but fall to quarreling again quite as fiercely as before over something which neither of them had never had had and never would have silly it but then most quarrels aels are just as silly meanwhile granny fox and reddy fox were sitting down to the finest fish dinner they had bad had bad for many a day the way to get on in this world said granny is to keep your eyes open for the mistakes of others and then just step in and take advantage of them of course buster bear and king eagle will say that I 1 stole this fish but I 1 zint it belong to either of them it belonged to plunger the fish hawk but he be lost it it and so then it belonged to whoever could get it remember member Ile this reddy quarreling is bad business for those engaged in it but it Is likely to be ver very y profitable to some one else always try to be that some one else keep out of quarrels yourself but be on hand when others quarrel did you ever taste a finer alner fish 1 I neier neer did replied reddy 1932 by TW burgess service |