The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-02-18
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BED TIME STORY
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Old Granny Fox Has a BAD Dream.

Old Granv Fox wa. dreaming Yes
sir. she was dreaming. There she
lay curled up on the little knoll which
you know. is a sort Of little hill. fas
overlooked the Green Meadows, ant
it IA q fayorite mapping place 70,
Granny Fox, You see. Jolly. round
bright Mr.. Sun used 10 pour his
warnlsst rays down right there sc
that it was a very comfortable place
indeed. So when Granny was tireG
she often would slip over there fol
u little short nap and: sun bath.
This morning Granny Was unusual,
Is tired. She had been out all this
night before. and then before she
had found her tracks, and, of course
she couldn't go home then because
that would tell EowSer right where
she lived. So she had led Rowser far
away across the fields and through The
woods, and then after q while she
played a smar trick which mixed hci
tracks up 70 That Rowser could nc
shifting and shifting as he tried tc
find out with his wonderful nose
where Granny Fox had gone to- she
trotted back through tho Green Far
est to the sunny knoll, and there she
curled IN to rest. And right awaA
she feii asleep.
Now irannv Fox. like most of the
other little people OF the Green Mes
dows and the Green Forest. sleeps
with her ears wide open. Her eve
may be closed. but her ears are on
guard, and at the least unusual sound
open fly her eyes and she is all ready
to run. IL it wasn't for the wa he,
sharp ears keep guard shc wouldn't
dare to take maps right in broad day
light. If ever o want to catch a
o. asleep o mustn't make the
t%eeniest. ueeniest noise.
NOV bic Granny Fox had no sooner
dream. and the dream was a very bad
ono. Yes. indeed. it was a Very bad
dream. 1t seemed to Granny as If
Bowser the Hound was smarter than
she ever had known him TO be be-
fore. and not n of all the tricks she
knew fooled him at all, He kept
getting nearer Inc nearer until it
right at her very. heels. and she; was
so tired that it didn't seem as if she
could take another step. Nov. all this
was a. dream you know, but dreams
sometimes seem very real, and this
vas the way it was with Old Granny
Fox. 1t seemed to her that Bowser's
great Jaws were Just coins to close
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oh! Oh cried Granny and walked
herself up. Her eyes new open and
she gave 3. great sigh Of relief to find
that her terrible fright was only a
bad dream and that she was curled
up right on the familiar old SUNNI
knoll. She seemed to think what a
fright h had had and then-well,
then Old Granny Fox didn't know.
whether h "a awake or still
dreaming. No. sir, for a minute she
didn't know whether what she saw,
was real or a part of that dreadful
dream. You see, she was staring right
straight into the face OF Farmer
Browns boy and into the muzzle Of
his dreadful gun. For just a few
seconds she didn't move. She couldn't,
because she was too frightened TO-.
Then she knew that it Was real and
not a dream at all. Farmer Browns
boy had been hiding behind some
pine boughs close By and for once
in her life she had been caught nap
ping. Poor Old Granny Fox! She
hadn't the least. hops In sthA World.
Farmer Browns boy had only to FIRE
his dreadful gun. and that would he
the end OF her.