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Mrs. Hooty Greatly Alarmed. Tis not alone the cooing dove _Whose heart is touched by gentle love. —Hooty the Owl. It was not long after the little Owl ad fallen from the nest over in the reen Forest that Mrs. Hooty returned. phe had a mouse. Of course, she flew traight to the nest. ucmn% from a tree a short 'way. He was taking great care to be ;fiyy hidden while she watched. The one little Owl in the nest became reatly excited when his mother arrived | is. o Sammy Jay was | ribly distance | ‘A Strain on the Family Tie.—By Gaar Williams BY THORNTON W. BURGESS mouse, too. He put this in the nest, or rather on the edge of it, and then he joined Mrs. Hooty in hunting for that lost baby. very clear that Hooty and Mrs. y were both very much upset.- “I have believed it,” muttered Sammy to himself. “No, sir, I wouldn't have believed jt! They were such ter- flerce- folks that I wouldn't have believed that they could know what love is. But it appears they do. I have seen a good many bird mothers upset, but never one more upset than Mrs. Hooty By this time the two big Owls were beginning to Jook the tree all over. They ‘were looking to see if the youngster had fallen out and might be somewhere on one of the branches of that tree. around in another tree, for i 't fly. But anxious parents do foolish things. Sammy Ja; [RS. HOOTY BEGAN TALKING TO{ " HIM EXCITEDLY. nd snatched at the mouse she was ~br tly Mrs. a ap) ty ‘did not notice at Arst that there But after she had given the mouse nhenndyhbyahzmm:’;m baby. It looked to Sammy as if at first e didn't know just what was wrong. phe seemed to know that something wrong, but what it was she didn't ow. Then suddenly she realized that. ©of her bables was nowhere to' be Hooty became much. and- he [ Mrs. excited. | Hooty &sb&d that other baby aside as if ught he might be hiding the lost pne. She looked in and = the S A SRR HIIIII=II daEnE E B Across. 1 !ug'd;n suspension. of voluntary ac- ty. y. [10. 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