Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1930, Page 35

N 1 l When Words Fail Yu Juot Like wMagt l ’ L A A Y BEDTIME STORIE +Tis mothers have. with danger near, ‘The iove that overcometh fear. —Old Mother Nature. Farmer Brown's Boy and Bowser the Hound were headed toward the Green Forest. Farmer Brown's Boy had Spring thoughts. It was still Winter, but Farmer Brown’s Boy's thoughts were turning to Spring. He was on his way over to the sugar house among the sugar maples to prepare for the coming sugar season. The sap would be run- ning soon now. That would mean busy days and busy nights for Farmer Brown and Farmer Brown's Boy. It was a dull gray morning. Over among the pines and the hemlocks it was almost dark. Farmer Brown's Boy 80 FARMER BROWN'S BOY HEAD- ED OVER TOWARD WHERE BOW- SER WAS BARKING. heard a faint squeak. It came from off at one side. It was the squeak of a mouse. He looked in that direction and was just in time to catch a glimpse of a big bird disappearing among the trees. “Hooty the Owl!" exclaimed Farmer Brown’s Boy. “Hooty the Great Horned Owl caught a mouse! That reminds me that it is about time for that fellow to be nesting. I wonder if he and Mrs. Hooty are using the old nest that they used last year. If I had time I would go | over there and look. But I haven't time. Tl have to slip over there some day soon. Hello! I wonder what Bowser has found now.” He stopped to listen. Bowser was barking. And from the way he was | threatening m: NOW THEYLL ¢ LET You WAIT BY THORNTON W. BURGESS 1 barking Farmer Brown's Boy knew that | Bowser had found some animal or bird | that had refused to run or fly away. “Probably.” said Farmer Brown's Boy, “Bowser has treed something. I wonder | if it can be that Bobby Coon is out yet. I'll have to have a look. Bowser never | barks for nothing. He has found some one or something.” So Farmer Brown's Boy headed over toward where Bowser was barking. He | approached carefully. He could see | Bowser in front of a little hemlock tree | and making short rushes toward it and | then backing away, all the time barking. | Whatever it was was under that little | hemlock tree. Farmer Brown's Boy | moved forward. As he did so a big bird |swooped down and struck Bowser. Bowser yelped. Yes sir, he yelped. If you have ever seen the big claws of Hooty the Great Horned Owl, or Mrs. Hooty, you will not wonder that Bowser yelped when Mrs. Hooty struck him. “Well, T never!” exclaimed Farmer Brown's Boy. “What can that mean? ?vm: is Mrs. Hooty getting after Bowser for?” Meanwhile Bowser had backed away to a safe distance, where he continued to bark. Farmer Brown's Boy continued to advance, and suddenly Mrs. Hooty swooped at him. She didn’t hit him, but she passed very close to his head, and she was snapping her bill in the most anner. Farmer Brown's Boy was puzzled until he looked up and saw the old nest of Blacky the Crow. ‘Then he understood, or thought he did. “Those Owls have taken Blacky’s old nest this year,” said he to himself. “That's what it is. They have taken Blacky’s old nest and they don't want us around. Still, that doesn't altogether account for the way Bowser was bark- ing. Bowser wouldn't notice that nest, and if he did it wouldn’'t mean any- thing to him. There is something queer about this. I must look into it.” Just then Farmer Brown'’s Boy caught a glimpse of something white that moved underneath the little hemlock tree at which Bowser had been. barking. He hurried forward and stooped to peer under. As he did 50 he received a sharp blow on the back of his head. It was so unexpected that it caught him entirely unprepared, and, bending over as he was, he nearly lost his balance. But he | didn’t quite. He heard the sound of a snapping bill and he knew who had hit him. He knew that Mrs. Hooty had treated him just as she had Bowser the Hound. (Copyright. 1930.) Daily Cross-Word Puzzle 1. Cause to cease. 7. Simple, dignified hymn tune to be sung in chorus. 13. The discharge of rifies. 14. Relating to the romance lenguages. 16. Smaller. 17. The windflower. 18. A species of cuckoo. 19. Cover with a roof of flowers. 21. One of the honors in bridge. 22. An incorporated municipality. 24. Primitive, 25. A demonstrative pronoun. 26. A relative by marriage: coll. 28. Command to turn oxen. 29. A ridge. 30. Percolation. 32. One who goes to bed. 34. In behalf of. 35. Saw wood with the grain. 36. Pertaining to marriage. 40. A lad: Scotch. 44. A hard durable biack wood. 45. An American lizard. 47. Species of sandpiper. 48. Carol. 49. Odor. 51, Buster Brown's dog's name. 52. A large food fish. ©3. A leopard-like animal. 55. White linen vestment. #6. Painter’s studio. &8. Small cape on the Maine coast. @0 Ainking of military operations. 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