The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-10-25
BEDTIME STORIES
FOR LITTLE
FOLKS 4
PEEP AND FLUFF.

Peep and Fluff were two little
chickens, and they were the only
chicks their mother, Mrs. White Hen,
had; SO that she thought only the
biggest worms were good enough for !
her chicks, and she watched over
them with the greatest care.
She would not let them scratch for
worms or eat anything she had not |
first inspected, and SO Fluff and Peep |
we're deprived, they thought. of a
great deal of fun, because all the
other chicks in the barnyard scratched
for themselves and ran about without
their mother sometimes.
1--WE will never get away from
mother If we don't run away" said
Fluff one day. "She watches us all
the time. Look at Madam Speckled
Hens chicks; they can get worms all
by themselves, and when they want a
drink of water they go alone and get
it, but our mother follows us all
around the yard, clucking at us until
everyone calls us Mothers Babies"
81 know it," said Peep; ait is too
bad. We are old enough to do some
thing for ourselves, and l for one
think we will have to take matters
into our own hands and run away
from mother
!, "Where can we go?" asked Fluff.
i ooh! we don't need to go far" said
Peep. 1--WE can wait until we see a
chance to slip away from mother, and
then run around the other side Of the
barn and scratch for ourselves and
see if we like it,"
, Now, Fluff and Peep were really
very small chicks, and while they
, might have done more for themselves
in the way of looking for food, they
were still too young to be from under
their mothers watchful eye.
! One day, however, when Mrs. White
q Hen was running toward the dish OF
! mush that had juse been put dowr
t for the chicks and calling to Peep ant
e Fluff to follow, those little chicks rar
away. and when their mother turned
around they were nowhere to be seen
. "My, what big place the world isl
said Peep, looking around.
1--WE are the only ones on this sid
H Of the world" said Fluff, thinking tn
II world was Just the barnyard and tn
q barn divided it.
4 "what shall we do now?" aske
b Peep.
ooh, we will scratch for a worr
d and when we find one we VIII take
q to mother instead of eating it, just
q show her what we can do all alone
d But Peep and Fluff were too littl
u to do much scratching. and after tr.
n ing while they were so tired the
% had to give it up.
d Both little chicks sat under bus
a to rest, blinking their eyes, whic
M looked like four little beads, an
"a breathing very hard.
M 81 wonder where mother is?' aske
81 Peep beginning to wish she woul
z find them, but Mrs. White Hen we
fM looking on the other side Of the bar
pa ward and clucking and calling for hi
|S babes, never thinking they had ru
~ away. r
"Oh, look!" said Fluff starting I
and running at something on Il
ground.
-aA 81 do believe it is worm sa
en- Fluff, picking at something on Il
To- ground.
~, N at is such little one" said Feel
h. l"I never saw one so thin before"
He at will do very well for begi
Did ming I think" said Fluff, who want
or to get back to his mother. 1--WE CT
at. take it home just to show we can
-, one if we try"
inc Fluff picked it up and then dropp
ren it. at is awful tough" he said, loo
ere ing at it in rather disguised way
"But we must take it home to sh'
IT'S mother" said Peep; "and it may be
my new kind of work, too"
I've, So Peep and Fluff picked up tn
son worm each taking an end in his b
md and ran around the other side of
hit barn.
cen "oh look at Peep and Fluff" salt
little Bantam Rooster, and then
M u ran for them and grabbed at
AID worm. Peep let go his end, but Fl
ack chung to him, and when Peep saw I
With the bantam was getting the better
Iere the struggle he grabbed at the
loyt his brother was holding and pull
'en' with all his little might,
tha First, the bantam would pull F
"A and Peep, and then the chicks VIC
min the bantam Rooster and I