Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1929, Page 31

l —By Gaar Williams | l . i | Our Secret Ambition. . et ey BEDTIME STORIES °) " o The Willful Young Gander. Willfulness. as sure as fate. Wil lead to trouble soon or late. —Old Mother Nature. In the flock of Honker the Goose were several young geese, as is always the case in a big flock. These young geese were making their first trip back ' to the Far North. They were not yet mated, nor would they mate that year. ‘Theirs was a carefree life with nothing to do but learn the ways of the wise among geese and to have a good time generally. Now, young geese are quite like young foiks of other kinds. Some of them are quite likely to be willful; some of them = v PRESENTLY HE SWAM IN CLOSE TO SHORE. are inclined to think that they know it all; some of them are always looking for a chance to do what they want to do rather than what they should do. In Honker's flock there was a young gander who had a very good opinion of himself. It goes without saying that he was a willful young gander. Honker, as leader of the flock, always had to keep a watchful eye on this young ander. It wasn't so much that Honker feared that the willful young gander would - get. inta trouble himself as it ‘was that he feared he would lead other members of the flock into trouble. You see, this young gander liked to show off before the other young geese. W. BURGESS This willful young gander was greedy, which perhaps was quite natural. He was strong and handsome and he thought a very great deal of his ap- pearance. He thought even more of his stomach. So when Farmer Brown's Boy had thrown yellow corn out into the pond of Paddy the Beaver espe- cially for Honker and his flock, this willful young gander was one of the first to rush forward when Honker gave the word. Never was there a greedier young goose. He shoved others aside and scrambled for those yellow grains as if no one else were to be con- sidered at all, He could not push the older geese aside, for he had not yet attained his full strength, but he could crowd and shove the younger geese aside, and this he did, until finally Honker drove him off by himself. When the last of the corn had been picked up the flock began to swim about, dress their feathers and gabble contentedly. The willful young gander, however, was sulky. He wouldn’t gab- ble with the others. He swam off by himself and sulked. Presently he swam in close to shore. Honker noticed it and called to him sharply. The young gander pretended not to hear. He started to wade out on the shore. But all the time he was keeping a watchful eye on Honker. When he saw Honker suddenly start in his direction the willful young gander pretended not to see him, but he turned and swam rather rapidly out into the pond where the water was fairly deep. You see, he had no desire to be punished by the big leader. “He is just doing it to show that he is the leader,” thought the young gan- der. “He is a bully. I can tell him one thing and that is that when I get my full strength he’ll never bully me. There isn't a thing in the world to be afraid of in this little pond here. There is no reason in the world why we shouldn't all of us go ashore if we want to. There is no danger. I'm going ashore the first chance I get. Yes, sir, that is what I'm going to do! Honker is getting old. He isn't fit to be the leader of a great flock like this. He is too easily scared. Some day I'm | going to lead this flock and then they’ll know that they've got a leader. I wish | he would take a nap. I want to go ashore.” So the willful young gander talked to himself, in the way that young people have of talking to themselves. (Copyright, 1920.) 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