Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1935, Page 22

Bedtime Sto_ries Father BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. The father who is good and t ‘Will share in all there is to do. Reddy Fox. EDDY FOX is a good father. In all the Green Forest, on all the Green Meadows, there is no better fatger than Reddy Fox. Those who know him well know this, He is quite as good a father as Mrs. Reddy is mother. Reddy Fox was losing weight. Yes, |1t helped. | playing, Reddy. | doorstep. He offered her the Mice. She shook her head. He ‘made soft little sounds, urging her to take the Mice, but she continued to refuse. Finally, when he was sure that every one had had enough, he went off by himself and ate the two Mice. It wasn't much of a meal for one who had worked so long and so hard, but Then he, too, lay down for a nap. But Reddy’'s nap was a short one. First one and then another of the little Foxes came out and began to | play about. Finally four of the five were rolling and tumbling together, and jumping on their mother and just like little puppies. Reddy sighed. It was a pleasant sight to see, and he was very, very proud of those four children that he was watching and of the one who was still in the house. He was proud of them, but he sighed, because he knew that play would mean renewed appetite in a short time. So Reddy got to his feet and walked over to where the youngsters were playing. One of them jumped at his i | ot “THAT FELLOW WILL WORK HIM- SELF TO DEATH FOR HIS FAMILY,” SAID JIMMY SKUNK. So was er. How-| WAS RIOW- than was Mrs. Reddy ced it ill work himself to family,” said Jimmy and Peter Rabbit trotting past the dear | Patch with two mice in | at wouldn’t make me feel badly #£aid Peter. “However, I am not going to count on it. Reddy is just like this every Spring He just works imself to a shadow for Skunk nodded. “1 can't see any sense in 1" replied Peter. “I leave my h n to the care of their mother." So do 1" replied Jimmy. “But Reddy Fox seems to think that those youngsters are going to starve if he doesn't keep them fed up.” “It 1s a pity that you don't follow his example,” said Mrs. Skunk crossly. for she happened along just in time | to overhear that remark Jimmy said nothing. He just pre- tended that he didn't hear. Mean- while Reddy had gone on home with the two Mice. He was tired, was Reddy. He was tired and footsore. Moreover, he was hungry. He hadn't | had a bite since he started out hunt- | ing the afternoon before. He hadn't | had a bite, in spite of the fact that hunting had been good. You see, | everything he had caught he had taken home to Mrs. Reddy and the | children. ‘ First, he had made sure that each of the children had had all he or she could eat. Then he had insisted that their mother should eat. Not a ! mouthful would he touch so long as | she or the children were hungry. Mrs. Reddy had tried to make him | eat, but he had simply left what he had brought and started off again. | Now when he reached home with the | two Mice he found that the children | were asleep inside the house and | Mrs. Reddy was curled up on the| Sonnysayings That baby don't know how hard those steps can bump, or she wouldn't get so near the top. I ought to get a piece of pie for keepin' her from fallin’. (Copvright tail. Another pretended to bite one of his feet. Reddy grinned. Then, without a word, he turned and trotted off. He had started hunting once more. Mrs. Reddy allowed the youngsters to play & while. Then she sent them all into the house, and she, too, started | off to hunt. It was amusing how much five growing little Foxes could | eat. Yes, sir, it was so, and she was very, very thankful that she did not | have to provide all the food, as some | of the mothers of her acquaintance did “Reddy is & good father,” thought she. “There is none better. I can always depend on him. 1f anything should happen to me he would work himself to skin and bones to keep those babies supplied with food. and if there is any one in all the Great | ‘World more generous than Reddy Fox I don't know who it is." (Copyright. 1935.) e e A Little Chat on English BY JOS. J. FRISCH. A NATURALIST SAYS THAT THE POLAR BEAR HAS NATURE'S BEST WINTER COA’ DAD NEARLY EVERY POSSIBLE 5#&5 THE THE Uncle Ray HO was the first man to make a machine which really flew through the alr? Perhaps we shall never be able to answer that question for certain, but there is some reason to believe that an ancient Greek did the deed. His name was Archytas and he lived 2300 years ago. Among his friends was Plato, the famous thinker and writer. It has been declared that Archytas made a wooden pigeon which would fly “by its own power.” A Roman writer, Aulus Gellius, left this note about the bird: “Many noted men among the Greeks have assured us, in a most positive manner, that the model of a pigeon formed in wood by Archytas was so THE WOODEN PIGEON OF ARCHY- TAS. (From an old print.) made as to fly, by a certain mechanical art and power. It was balanced nicely, and was put in motion by hidden and inclosed air.” If such a pigeon was ever made, it was a flying machine of a sort. It would seem to have been only a toy (perhaps built to amuse a child), but the story of it filled people with won- der. Archytas lived fo the age of 81 and his ability to make clever toys ed | some persons to call him a “man of magic.” We are not told very clearly what power was used to make the pigeon fly. Possibly the hollow body was filled with compressed air, which caused the wings to flap. EVENING Perhaps the story is only & legend, | with little or no oasis in fact: but it lived throughout the centuries and made people puzzle about the question of flying. There are other tales of flight long ago, among them one about Simon the Magician, who tried to fly at Rome. Another tale says that a Saracen ‘broke his bones” after stretching wings and leaping from a tower at Constantinople. Almost six centuries ago the learned English friar, Roger Bacon, explained two ways in which men might fly. He told of a possidle balloon and also wrote: “There may be made some fly- | ing instrument so that a man sit- | ting in the middle of it and turning some mechanism can put in motion | | wings which will beat the air lke R. B.—"Nearly every possible crime has been laid at his door” is the correct form. 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