Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1930, Page 30

THE EVENING WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1930. 1| THE CHEERFUL CHERUD STAR, N THAT 1S A QuesTioN WHICH WiLL Have TO N REMAIN UNANSWERED I WANT To GO To POLICE HEADQUARTER AND MAKE T Our Secret Ambition. —By Gaar Williams BEDTIME STORIE Telltale Tail. The truly wise are always slow To ever let suspicion gro¥ FARMER BROWN'S BOY. Farmer Brown's Boy was puzzled. Yes, sir, he was very much puzzled. He was sure that there were mice, or at least a mouse, in the corn crib, It didn't enter his head that any one else could be eating the corn. So he had set traps for mice, and not a mouse had he caught. Neither had he seen a mouse, However, each day he found grains of corn scattered around and often a bare cob from which the corn had all been taken. That was evidence enough for Farmer Brown's Boy. One morning Farmer Brown's Boy got up extra early. He was going to town that day, and he wanted to get his morning work done earlier than usual. So he went to the corn crib to get the | corn to feed the hens, and he was just about an hour earlier than usual. " As he threw the door of the corn crib OEen he heard a rustling sound, and he looked up quickly just in time to catch a glimpse of & tail disappearing under the great pile of corn. “Well, I never!” exclaimed Farmer Brown's Boy. “So it isn't mice who have been taking the corn; it is Chat- terer the Red Squirrel. It never entered my head to suspect Chatterer. But there is no mistaking that tail. There is no tail like it. I wonder how you got in here, you scamp!” Meanwhile Chatterer was keeping BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. | do.” thought he, “and {hat is to keep | perfectly still. He may not have seen | | me. I don't see what he is doing over | here so early in the morning, any way. | It isn’t time for him. He had no busi- [ mess to come so early. If he did see | me, he can't find me under all this | corn. So, whether he saw me or not, the best thing for me to do is to keep perfectly still.” So Chatterer did keep perfectly still, and though Farmer Brown's Boy tried to frighten him by pulling over a lot of the corn and making & noise, it was ! of no use. Farmer Brown's Boy got the ( corn he needed and wen: ‘it and fed | the_hens. He hadn't tin.' .ien to try | to find how Chatterer had entered the | corn crib. But when he returned late ' | that afternoon the first thing he did | was to look that corn crib over. To start with, he looked for holes, as he had | | looked once before. Of course he didn’t | find any. In fact, it was just as much | of & mystery as to how Chatterer had | entered that corn crib as it had been when he thought it was mice in there. Of course, Farmer Brown's Boy saw | nothing more of Chatterer, and he began to wonder if it could be possible that he had been mistaken. “A fellow's eyes will fool him cnce in & while,” | said he to himself. “Yes, sir; a fellow’s | eyes will fool him once in a while. Still, I don't believe that my eyes could pos- sibly have mistaken any other tail for a squirrel's tail. That scamp certainly was in here this morning. That tail of his gave him away. Now the guestion is, how did he get in? I guess I'll have to set a trap for him.” So Farmer Brown's Boy brought in a little box trap—a trap that would not hurt whoever it might catch. He baited 4 T eI S TS S When loching up at stars I feel Like being honest, strong and wise —|| I wish that I covld always heep A little ‘starlight in my eyes. " AMcana BuNcw O Kivs BsEEN AFIER ME Chased by a Bear. PROFESSOR MUTT, T MUST BE BEAUTIFUL ¢ 4 o o y , Pop Momano SNAPPY ! Al Gets Uninvited Company. STHEM JUST- STAaM ‘BOUT SO FaR. 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