Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1930, Page 45

WHEN A SIGNATURE. WAS CONSIDERED A SERIOUS / MATTER. AND A WORSE 4 ART. BEDTIME STORIES °; "5rcess' One Up and One Down. What seems disaster it is plain May prove to be the victim's gain. —Hooty the Owl. Hooty the Owl and Mrs. Hooty were having more difficulties this year than ever before in raising a family. You see, one of the babies was in the nest and one was on the ground. Mrs. Hooty had thought that this one had tumbled from the nest, as she had scolded him right well for his careless- ness. But he hadn’t tumbled from the nest. No, sir, he hadn’t tumbled from the nest! He had been pushed out of ¥, 2 HE HISSED AND SNAPPED HIS BILL AT ME. the nest by his greedy and selfish sister. She didn’t seem a bit sorry either. Probably she thought that now she ‘would get all the food. Mrs. Hooty, however, thought differ- ently. She had no intention of allow- ing the little fellow on the ground to suffer if she could help it. So she fed him down there. In fact, she paid very little attention to the greedy sister up in the nest. She left Hooty himself to look after that one. It seemed as if she hunted twice as hard for the little fellow on. the ground. There was no danger of his going hungry. Sammy Jay spent a lot of time watch- ing, but taking great care that neither Hooty nor Mrs. Hooty should know what he was about. Once when neither of them were around Sammy flew down jand alighted on the ground near the | little Owl. But he didn't stay there | long. Sammy told Mrs. Sammy about | it afterward. “You should have seen him,” said he. “He is the most savage youngster I ever | saw. He hissed and snapped his bill at | me and threw himself on his back and | struck at me with his claws. He is a little savage. Yes, sir, that is what he is—a regular little savage. He didn't seem to be any the worse for his tum- Jble from the nest. I believe he is grow- |ing faster than the other one now. | Probably Mrs. Hooty thinks all the |more of him because he did tumble from the nest. The little fellow on the ground was doing very nicely. He'had a sheltered and very comfortable place underneath a little hemlock tree. In fact, he was | warmer there than he had been up in the nest. He wasn't old enough to worry. . He left that for his mother. Mrs. Hooty did worry some. She always woriled a little while she was away hunting food. You see, there was al- ways the chance that Reddy Fox might come along, or Yowler the Bobcat, or Old Man Coyote. She knew that any one of them would be very glad to try young Owl for dinner. So she always hurried back as fast as she could and as soon as she could. And always she | found the young Owl safe. One reason for this was that Old Man Coyote, Yowler the Bobcat and that part of the Green Forest. They knew that there was not likely to be anything to catch over there. They knew that with Hooty and Mrs. Hooty hunting both night and day, there was little likelihood of finding anything to eat very near that nest. So they didn’t waste time going over there, which was just as well for the little Owl on the ground. So, with one up and one down, Hooty and Mrs. Hooty found their family cares greatly increased. It was just twice as hard to keep watch of the babies sep- arated as it would have been with the bu:blel w(eth!:h in the n‘e’st. Meanwhile, e one on the ground was growing faster than the one in the nest. There it got th ts. Certainly, he had lost nothing by being pushed out of the nest by his greedy sister. And she, on her part, had gained nothing. In fact, she had really lost, which is quite as it should be. (Copyright, 1930.) THE v - e T e A Statement for the Press. 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