Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1929, Page 54

54 l Wotta Life! Wotta Life! —By Gaar Williams We HAVE ALL BNDVED A HEARTY GUFFAW OUFR THE JTORY OF AN OSTRICH MNG\ BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. BEDTIME STORIE that Reddy and Mrs. Reddy tried for another turkey. They tried the same old trick. Mrs. Reddy showed herself and led the dog away. Reddy stole down as near to the tree where the Such a feast as Reddy Fox and Mrs. | turkeys roosted as he could get and Reddy had had on that turkey! When | waited for them to come to roost. He they finished there was little left but 1 was so infent on watching those tur- feathers and bones, and these were all | keys as thay came up toward the tree nicely hidden under ths narn of the |that he failed to notice the farmer very farm where the turkey had been | peeking around a corner of the barn. caug] You sce, Reddy and Mrs.|In the farmer's hands was a terrible Reddy were smart enough to know that [ gun. That farmer was wise to the ways the farmer would not expect them to |of Foxes. He had understood perfectly hide so near. Therefore, they were |what had happened the evening he had safer there than if they had gone far |lost a turkey. He knew that two Foxes away. It was broad daylight by the time they finished that turkey, so they More Than He Bargained For. mo takes a chance should mot complain oth fright and pain. 3t fatlure brings OB 4 Mother Nature. had been working together. “They'll try that trick again,” said he. “One will lead off the dog and the other will try to catch a turkey. I shall have to give them a surprise. I doubt if they will be around for two or three nights, but they certainly will come before long. I'll just keep a watch every nignt while the turkeys go to roost.” So the farmer kept his gun handy in the barn. On this night he heard the dog start off after Mrs. Reddy. He slipped out the back door, taking his gun with him, and stole very carefully and silently back of the barn until he could peek around the corner near to where Reddy was hidden. He saw Reddy at once. Reddy had his head lifted and was eagerly watching the turkeys, which were making their way slowly toward the apple tree. Slowly the farmer lifted the terrible gun. It was going to be a long shot, but he knew that he could get no nearer to Reddy without alarming him. Just as the terrible gun reached the farmer’s shoulder, Reddy happened to glance that way. Like a flash, Reddy leaped to one side. As he did o the terrible gun went bang! bang! Reddy felt & number of stinging . He had been hit by the shot from that terrible gun. But he hadn't been seri- ously hurt. You wouldn't have thought he had been hurt at all, could you have seen him run. He had got more than he had bargained for this time, In- stead of a fat turkey in his stomach he had a number of small shot under his skin. But what was even worse from Reddy's point of view was the knowledge that their clever plan for catching turkeys had been discovered by the farmer. (Copyright, 1920.) Daily Cross-Word Puzzle HE SAW REDDY AT ONCE. decided to spend the day right where they were under the barn. And this is exactly what they did do. Jimmy Skunk was curled up in one corner and Reddy and Mrs. Reddy were curled up in an- other corner. Having eaten so much, they were very sleepy. They slept all day. The turkeys had already gone to roost by the time they ventured out. “This is no place for us to stay,” sald Reddy to Mrs. Reddy. “It would be foolish to try to get another turkey right away. The thing for us to do is to go back home for a few days. Then we can try the same trick over again.” So it was not until four days later . Extensive. . Cultured. . Uncloses. . Butter substitute. . To reckon chronologically. . Doctrine. . Practical unit of electrical capacity. . Red-bellied woodpecker. . 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