Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1937, Page 24

Bedtime Stories Reddy Fox BY THORNTON W. BUIGESks. Consider well each move you make vi istake. And thus avold a_srave mistake OST mistakes are the result of hasty action. To be sure. mistakes are made even after long consideration, but not nearly as often as when the action is hasty and therefore not well con- sidered. Reddy Fox is one who acts | quickly but not hastily. There is & difference, & most important differ- ence, between acting quickly and act- ing hastily. One may act quickly without carelessness, but a hasty action is likely to be a careless action. All his life Reddy has had to act quickly at times. If he had not sct,ed‘ quickly he would not be alive today. | Occasionally he has acted hastily and | almost always regretted it. So he hns} Jearned to consider every move h_e; makes. That is, he makes it his busi- | mess to sec clearly what may or may | not happen. So, no matter what does happen, he very scldom is taken wholly | by surprise. However, whenever he can he likes to take time to consider carefully what to do and how best to do it. Reddy had much to consider now. | He had a great problem to consider. | Two lives, his own and that of Mrs. Reddy, depended wholly upon him, and, so far as he could see, upon him alone. They could not live without food, and that food he must get, as Mrs. Reddv was at home, he far as getting ab to hunt for food was concerned. She had been shot ;and taken a nice meaty bone away Sonnysayings | he might. | him again. Drandpa alers complainin’ he can't sleep. I wist he would try doin’ my homework for me—I can't Kkeep Considers. | 1, - = WA = W b, == Sy HE SAT AT THE EDGE OF THE OLD PASTURE, LOOKING TO- WARD FARMER BROWN'S. and so badly hurt that it would be THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, it would seem never to wonder where the next meal is coming from. I'm glad I got that bone for Mrs. Reddy, poor dear. Now I must get a bite for myself or I won't have strength enough to hunt for food for her.” At last Reddy reluctantly turned away from Farmer Brown's and head- ed for the Green Forest. He had twice had good luck in Farmer Brown's dooryard, and so wanted to try again, copsider. He had been lucky twice, but he couldn’t expect to be as lucky all the time. “I must take as little risk as I can while Mrs. Reddy is helpless,” thought | he. “Whatever happens to me hap- pens to her, and that means that I must be extra careful, I'll try every place where there is no real risk. Then if I have no luck and worse comes to worst, I'll take a chance. Anything is better than starving to death.” So Reddy hunted carefully and pa- | tiently through the Green Forest. He ‘went over to the Big River and hunt- ed along its banks. He searched all through the Old Pasture. He investi- gated the Old Stonewall along the| Old Orchard. Everywhere the result| was the same—nothing. Not even one small Mouse rewarded all his hunting. But there were those two Dogs to|’ | fled down the street wearing gunny- | some time before she would be able to | Tired, hungry and discouraged, he |one to keep from starving. awake pounds of laundry —and not a Single Extra —not Even Men’s Shirts! do any hunting. So Reddy must pro- | once more sat down to consider his vide food for her as well as himself | next move. Should he try his luck and, with everything covered with | again in Farmer Brown's dooryard or snow and ice, it was hard enough for | should he try for a hen on some other | So that|farm? Which would be the greater | was the problem Reddy was consider- | risk? He considered carefully. He had ing, the problem of how to feed two | little hope of getting a hen at Farmer where there was not enough for one.| Brown's, and a hen was what he want- He sat at the edge of the Old Pas- ed above all things. But he felt in ture, looking over toward Farmer | =" e —— Brown’s. Two dogs lived there. He knew all about them. One was Bowser the Hound, who never was so happy as when chasing a Fox. The other was Flip the Terrier. He had bluffed Flip COMMON COLDS Relieve the distressing sympioms by applying Mentholatum in nostrils and rubbing on chest. MENTHOLATUM Gives COMFORT Daily from him to take home to Mrs. Reddy. “I was lucky to get it,” said Reddy to himself. “I couldn't have bluffed Bowser that way. No, sir, I couldn't | have bluffed him like that. But that little Dog doesn't know as much as I wonder if I could bluff I might. Then, again, I might not. My, these Dogs live well! I wonder how it would seem to have | all I want to eat every day without having to hunt for it. I wonder how ! Turn %o TEA Today/ LADA TEA of The Lowest Priced Fine Tea You Can Buy flnlu$| ?9 his heart that there would be less danger at Farmer Brown's. There | would be np terrible gun and there would be no dreadful trap. These things there might be at some other | farm. “I'll see if I can steal another break- fast from those Dogs,” decided Reddy. (Copyright, 1937.) Modern Horse Footwear. ALTON, Ill. (#)—Charley, a rag| picker's horse, exhibited something new in equine footwear when he shuf- sacks. His Negro owner, Willlam Watts, explained Charley was thus shod because he kept “falling all over himself” on the slick pavements. D. C, MONDAY, STILL AND FIVE MEN SEIZED NEAR DENTON BY the Associated Press, DENTON, Md, January 18.— Sheriff Saulsburg Sparks destroyed an {llicit liquor plant yesterday at the canning town of New Bridge and arrested five colored men in connec- tion with it. The men were put in the Caroline County Jail. said, had been employed at a pack- ing plant in New Bridge. Among the supplies and equipment he destroyed or confiscated were six barrels of mash, two 5-gallon cans of whisky, a bushel and a half of rye and six 100-pound sugar sacks. All of them, the sheriff | JANUARY 18, 1937. 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