Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1931, Page 23

BEDTIME STORIES % ' Kid Surefoot Is Scornful. r haste mlg ll}‘e YO: cl‘\,x:xe‘ to mourn. s e—-gld ‘;dmhlel’ Nature. | Billy the Mountain Goat, whom Farmer Brown's Boy called Biily Sure- Toot, stood for a long time on a narrow near the top of a great cliff look- ing down on Farmer Brown’s Boy on & slope far below. Then he climbed up over the edge of the cliff. Not far away, | Iving cown, he found Mrs. Surefoot, | whose name is Nanny, and their only | | *“I WANT YOU TO COME WITH ME. I HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW YOU,” REPLIED BILLY IN THAT GRAVE MANNER OF HIS. child, Kid Surefcot. Kid Surefoot scmewhat awkwardly scrambled to his feet and ran to his father. “I was looking for you,” said the latter gravely. He is always grave. “Well, now that you have founi me, what do you want of me?” inquired | Kid Surefoot, somewhat pertly, for he Was just at that age when he thought | himself very smart and lacked proper | Tespect for his elders. I want you to come with me. I have something to show you,” replied Billy in that grave manner of his. | He turned and led the way back to the top of the cliff and disappeared | over it. For an instant Kid Surefoot | hesitatec. He had never been down on ! that ledge where his father was now standing, and it looked very narrow and the way down to it very steep. “What are you waiting for?” de- manded kis mother, just back of him. ‘Then she crowded him to one side and went down to join Billy. Kid weited an instant longer, then drew a long breath and made his way down, setting his feet carefully. At | Jast he stood between Billy and Nanny, looking out over the Great World. It was a wonderful view, but Kid Surefoot had seen many just such views since he had been big “enough to follow his mother about. It didn't interest him. “Is this what you brought me down | | here to see?” he demanded, somewhat | impatiently. Billy gravely shook his head, and when he did this his long white beard waved back and forth. Kid idly won- dered if he would ever have a long white beard like his father’s. “Do_you see that two-legged crea- ture down_there among the rocks?” cemanded Billy. ‘The Kid looked eagerly, but at first didn't see Farmer Brown's Boy. When | he did his eyes opened very wide. “‘What is {t?” he demanded. ‘“Does it always walk on two legs like that?” “Yes,” replied Billy, “‘excepting when climbing. That is what is called Man, and Man is the one enemy you have most reason to fear. Take a good look at this one, so that you will never fail to recognize one when you see him. 'rI'hnt is what I brought you down here or.” “Do you think he has one of those terrible fire sticks?” asked Nanny, anxi- ously. Of course. she meant a gun. “No,” replied Billy. “I saw him at close range, and he is harmless.” He took care not to tell how he had been surprised napping by Farmer Brown’s Boy. “What is a fire stick?” asked the Kid. “It is a stick that only Man ever carries, and it flashes fire and makes a loud noise, and.from a long- distance throws something that hurts and some- times kills. So whenever you see one of | these two-legged creatures get cut of sight as quickly as you can. Get a rock between you and him, and don't be the least bit curious about him,” replied Billy more gravely than ever, if that were possible. Meanwhile Farmer Brown's Boy was scrambling over the rocks as he tried 1o climb to a point where he could see batter. Kid Surefoot watched him slip and slide and scramble. “Pooh! I don’t see anything to fear from that fellow!” he exclaimed, scorn- fully. “Look at him. Did you ever see any one s5 clumsy? Why, he couldn't | get near enough to me to see what I look like!" I have just told you that this one is harmless, but the next one may have a fire stick and he would be cangerous cven as far away as that fellow is,” re- plied Billv. “So if you would live to gTow a beard, heed” what I say and lose no time in getting out of sight of any Man you may happen to see and in climbing where he cannot follow.”, Kid Surefoot promised that he would heed this advice, but there was still ccorn in his look as he watcred Farmer Browu's Boy struggling up over the rocks. “Such a way to climb!" he muttered. AUTUMN BY D. C. PEATTIE. _—_— The first flight of juncoes has been scen, and where there are juncoes there are also, so far as ever I have observed, the black-capped chicalecs. But there will be time enough all Win- and chica- to glimpse ers wing- opics and the nighthawk passes nd just possibly you may vou tramp the woods in ¢t and wild yam D e rests on th~ ground by day and Goes his migrating at night. er plover, too, is on the wing chances are that he is so | bocy will have a look . alas! the men with clally in the meadows and e the wild rice grows the bobolinks > plentiful—plentiful but changed. more the chinking cry, no more the | nt coat of black and gold. Master | bolink is molting. He looks like a p, and the young meles of the though very numerous, look no & & w 2! N e B t - white-throated sparrow has been her r some time, and the song spar- Tow is already almost completely gone on his soutbward journeys, but there are still a few vesper svarrows, and the swamp sparrows are at their height. The last of the rose-breasted grosbeaks will soon, I fear, be seen, and the her- mit thrushes are diifled into two minds about staying all Winter or go- ing on. The ruby-crowned kinglet is just arriving in force, and will stay at the most two weeks more. Veerles are 211 gone, 50 are the least fiycatchers, but fox gparrows are just coming. Up to the meesent not a single tree sparrow or Forned lark have I scen, though better ornithologists than I may have deone so. Some birds, resident here for most of the year, suddenly become conspicu~ ous after completely hiding themselves all through the dog days. Such are the cedar waxings, the tufted titmouse and the bluebird that utters now a sad little whistle, most uniike his happy airs | of Spring. Only the white-throat re- | mains in full, fine voice. | doesn’t sing often, he performs as well ‘Though he as in the courting season—a record for continuing to say sweet things that not every married male can equal. So they come and flit, the little feath- ered brothers, some to take up Winter | quarters, some to vanish into the in-| closing ‘folilage of the South. 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