Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1929, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. SATURDAY JUNE 15, 1929. BEDTIME STORIE [out to the shed. There with hammer | Jenny Wren's Confidence. The most provol words I know, Are simply thes told you 9. —Mr. Wren. The thing that worried Farmer Brown's Boy most regarding the nest of the Wrens in the clothespin bag hang- ing in the shed was the possibility that Black Pussy the Cat might reach the bag and catch Jenny Wren or the babies when they hatched out. He kept Black FARMER BROWN'S BOY WENT OUT TO THE BARN. Pussy shut up in the house at night, and during the dav he and Mother Brown kept a watchful eye on Black Pussy. Two or three times she had been discovered beneath the bag, look- ing up at it longingly, the tip of her tail all the time twitching. Each time she had been punished. “We can't_watch that nest all the time,” said Farmer Brown's Boy. “It has got to be protected in some way.” ‘It ought to be,” sald Mother Brown. “I don't want anything to happen to that family after having given up my clothespin bag for them.” Farmer Brown's Boy went out to the barn. He got some wire netting. The holes were just about big enough for s Wren to slip through easily. He made a8 framework and covered it with the netting. Then he took the contrivance BY THORNTON W. BURGESS and nails he went to work. Jenny Wren was on her eggs in the clothespin bag. The hammering fright- ened her, but she stuck to her eggs. “I don’t know what he's doing, but I don't believe he's going to harm me at all,” she kept saying over and over to herself. “If he had been going to do us any harm, he would have done it be- fore now. Just the same, I wish I knew what he is doing.” By and by the pounding ceased and Farmer Brown's Boy went away. Then Jenny Wren left her ec~- and popped out of the clothespin bag to see what had been going on. At first she was frightened. It seemed to her that she was a prisoner. She was inside a cage. But it didn’t take her long to discover that she wasn’t a prisoner at all. The openings in the wire were just big enough for her to slip in and out nicely. But no one any bigger than she could get inside, and there inside hung the clothespin bag with her nest and preci- ous eggs, where no one could reach them. Black Pussy came sneaking in. Her tail twitched and her eyes glared with longing. She had fully intended sooner or later to get to that clothespin bag somehow. Perhaps you can guess her surprise and disapoointment when she discovered that wire cage protecting it. It wasn't possible for her to reach that now. t was the very next day that the eggs began to hatch and soon there were six hungry babies in there. Those were busy days for Jenny and Mr. Wren. From dawn of day until the Black Shadows came creeping out from the Purple Hills they worked to feed those hunery bables. But they didn’t have to worry. It didn't take them long to discover that they now had the safest home they ever had. No enemy could reach that clothespin bag hanging in- side that cake of wire netting. They actually took delight in teasing Black Pussy, as day after day she sat down beneath, looking up hungrilv as she listened to the cries of the baby Wrens being fed. “Now, what do you think about this place for a home?” demanded Jenny of Mr, Wren. ““You were right. my dear; vou were uite right,” Mr. Wren admitted meekly. “You are always right.” (Copyright, 1929.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle o3l ddaEEE EEE R . Degree of capacity Distinguished champion. . Part of an optical instrument. Cereal fertilizer, . Egyptian king. . Endeavors, . Immediate. 20. Tantalizers. 1. Turkish title, 3. Dominion, . Reputed . Reluctant. . Odd. . Informs against. 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