Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1928, Page 50

BEDTIME STORIES Reddy Fox Is Most Polite. Boliteness may not alwass pay, it Toses notaing anyway U oM T I hier Fox. It was true. Reddy Fox was coming straight toward the carrot patch where Johnny Chuck, Jerry Muskrat and Mrs. Jerry were feasting on carrots. What to do? That was the question in the minds of all three. Johnny Chuck was not so much afraid as Jerry Muskrat and Mrs. Muskrat. You see, Johnny is a very good fighter and he knew this. He is big and strong. Once he would have been a very badly scared Chuck, but now he wasn't much scared. But with Jerry and Mrs. Muskrat it was a very different matter. Reddy Fox “HA! GOOD MORNING, NEIGH- BORS,” SAID HE IN HIS MOST POLITE MANNER. was quite capable of killing either of them and they knew it. Mrs. Muskrat moved over to beside Jerry and Johnny Chuck maved over beside the two. Then the three faced Reddy Fox. Now Reddy hadn’t seen any one but Johnny Chuck until he was almost over to them. He stopped short when he discovered the ‘three. Such a surprised look as there was on his face! “Ha, good morning, neighbors!” said he in his most polite manner. “That was a heavy rain, wasn't it?” Nobody said anything. Reddy took two or three steps nearer,and Johnny - Chuck and Jerry and Mrs. Muskrat drew a little closer together. Then all three lifted their upper lips and showed BY THORNTON W. BURGESS what fine sharp teeth they possessed. Reddy sat down and grinned in what he believed was a_very pleasant way. “I've often wished I liked carrots,” said he. “Don't let me disturb you at your breakfast. I really don’t care for them myself, but perhaps you won't mind if I just watch you while you eat. How is Polly Chuck, Johnny?™ Johnny Chuck said nothing and Reddy grinned more broadly than ever. | Chuck saw it and so did Jerry Musk- | liteness of Reddy Fox was the desire to | catch one of them. So they continued | to show their teeth and say nothing. Now all this time Reddy Fox was saying to himself, “If Johnny Chuck wasn’t there I would have one of those Muskrats. Yes, sir, I would so! I'm surprised to find them away up here. They must have been driven out by the water. I wish Mrs. Reddy were here. If she were here we'd soon break up that little party. I must think of some way of getting them separated. That's what I must do—get them separated. But I mustn't let ‘them suspect. I must continue to be polite.” Aloud, Reddy said: “Well, I see you folks are a little disturbed, so I'll’ be moving along. I just wanted to make a neighborly call, but if it is going to disturb you I won’t think of staying.” It was then that Johnny Chuck spoke. “Don’t let us hurry you, Reddy,” said he. “It is too bad that you don't like carrots. But as there is nothing else here to eat I suppose you Will wani to go along and get your breakfast.” He grinned maliciously as he said this. Reddy Fox gritted his teeth, but he didn’t let them hear him. He knew that Johnny Chuck knew that his po- liteness was all put on. He knew that Johnny Chuck wasn't fooled a bit. It made him angry, but he couldn't afford to show his anger. So he arose in a leisurely manner, said bood-bye in the pleasantest way possible, hoped they would enjoy their breakfast and started off toward the cornfield that adjoined the carrot patch. Instead of disappear- ing in the cornfield he walked along the edge of it until he reached the cor- ner of it. Then he turned the corner and there was out of sight. “1 hope they'll think I've really gone,” he said to himself, and swiftly disap- peared among the cornstalks. He was working his way back out of sight to a point where he could watch Johnny and Jerry and Mrs. Muskrat. (Copyright. 1928.) Abe Martin Says: 1 o 5 ”nlfl, ! v @./f e ¥ 'Gin’ll eat linoleum,” says Miss Fawn Lippincut in th’ current issue o’ Hearth and Home.” (Copyright, 1928.) PR G At } The One Vice P Jim Bildad is a saintly soul, a rigid moralist, indeed, save that he likes to fill the bowl of his old pipe with nox- jous weed and let the smoke trium- phant roll; to no cheap frailties does he plead. When Bildad's day of toil is done he likes to smoke an hour or three and watch the great red, glaring sun sink slowly in the Western sea. It is his only kind of fun, his only form of harmless glee. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t swear, he doesn't play unholy games or loaf along the thoroughfare to flirt with idle vamping dames. Day after day, with ardor rare, he puts his shoulders to the hames. He is so free from faults and flaws, his one small ‘weakness should not score; the pipe that decorates his jaws should make no human being sore. Yet workers in a sacred cause assail him daily at his door. ‘There are some pure and spot- less folk, impelled by motives most sublime, who see in blue tobacco smoke the evidence of sin and crime; they see Jim puff his pipe and stoke, and then his frame they deftly climb. A moral leper he appears to stern reformers of this stripe, and they bombard his pa- tient ears with language scoriac and ripe: they view with deadly doubts and fears the influence of his old pipe. Poor Jim is roasted up and down and to and fro and back again: ‘most every day he’s roasted brown and urged from briars to abstain; yet he’s the only man in town who has no habits bad and vain. WALT MASON. (Copyright. 1928.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. My sister Gladdis was in her room and I looked in to see if she was eat- ing candy or anything, wich she was- ent, just kind of standing there look- ing at herself in the looking glass kind of sad, saying, Well Benny old top, you wont have many more chances to poke your mussed up little hed through my door to see what Im doing, and I must say Ill miss the site. Do you mean on account of you go- ing to get married? I sed. Thats wat I mean, old bean, Gladdis sed. Sometimes I use to think Id be glad to see the last of everything around here, but now that the time comes, Im weakening. miss me too, she sed. Sure, G wizz, I should say so, I sed. Well thats very nice of you, I must say, Gladdis sed. In fact it makes me feel strangely like blubbering, for some unknown reason. I must say your a good kid, Benny, in spite of the fact that your a rather aggervating little skrimpus at times, she sed. And your all rite yourself, even if 'you do act as if you thawt you owned the whole werld sometimes, I sed. O, look at the little runt thats tawk- ing, Gladdis sed. Meening me, and I sed, And look at the big skinny gallumpus thats tawk- ing back. Meening her, and Gladdis sed, Well well, this seems like old times, my how Il hate to miss all this. Me too, I sed, and Gladdis sed, Come and give me a kiss and Ill give you a peece of candy from a box that Ive bin holding out on you. Wich I went and did, -and she gave me 2 pieces insted of one, being cream coconut my most favorite kind. Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN, I hope youll = “Me an’ Pug sure are lucky. We found a old man today that gives you a nickel not to holler in front of his house.” (Covyright. 1928.) BRIDGE. A TALKIE OF A WOMAN PLavinG BRICGE | HOPE Y0U WONT PUD PARTMER IF | MAKE A AN TAKE MOW ANTHEN. e BEST CF et MAKE PANGTANE 5 YOO KNOW > Y 72 5, (1 rore oo oons ey ” CENTRACT. 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