The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-03-24
Bedtime Stories
For Little Folks

u,obt did Mr.. Fox was running
,ost as he could toward home
with q fat goose and hen and 'hi''A-
+. .OOut what nice breakfast he
and Mrs Fox would have and how
.,oosod his wife would be when he
sbould have been thinking where he
was walking and looking out for MINI
self.
The first thing Mr.. Fox knew after
thinking of his breakfast was to ma
himself in a deep hole among sticKR~
and stones. To be sure, he ha3
hen and goose with him, and tha
some satisfaction.
Now it happened that Madame Goose
was alive and so was Old Black Hen
and when Mr.. Fox fell he dropped
them and they jumped to their feet
"A pretty fix YOU have got me into
said Mr.. Fox wishing to blame same
one for his mishap Perhaps you can
get me out now you have brought this
Trouble upon me-
Madame Goose looked up and so did
Old Black Hen, but the top was TOO
high for them 10 reach We cannot
dy 50 hi H." said Madame Goose.
We might cackle and Qua,k," sug-
tel od Black JIen.
SO. no.. said Mr.. Fox Use your
i,- moi your voices"
He was afraid the farmer and the
dog mi-Aj hear them and then he
knew he would lose not only kis
breakfast but his life as well
I've will have to stay here. he said,
and may as well have one more
meal The question is. which one OF
you will ! have for my breakfast anC
which for my dinner"
Poor Madame Goose thought of he
little ducklings and Old Black Hen {
her chicks, but they knew it was n
use to plead with such heartless ie
low as Mr.. Fox
Don't you think you might maj
Mrs. Fox hear you if you called 50
Madame Goose. You cannot be
from home"
! Mr. Fox was thinking more alb,
getting out Just then than he was
his breakfast so he did as NADIA
Goose said, and after one or two ca
they heard some one running tows
the hole. But ii was not Mrs. Fox.
was old Reddy Fox who lived over I
hill, and when he looked into the he
and saw the fat hen and goose
almost fell in, too, so eager was he
get them.
"0h Reddy Fox, | am in trouble
said Mr.. Fox, Cannot you help ma.
get out of this dreadful placer"
Il will have to go for a rope sa,
old Reddy Fox. q won't be a mi
ate. Now you keep quiet and don
call FOR help, Some one might he;
you who WIN not be kind to you.
That kept Mr.. Fox quiet. and as Fl
the hen and soose, they did not dai
make sound for fear Mr.. Fox woul
finish them then aud there.
Here You are" called Old Redo
Fox, lowering a rope into the cister,
Now send the hen and goose IN fir,
and then l will lower it to you.
Mr. Fox did not like this plan at al
but what could he say. II he refuse
10 do as old Reddy said he misht b
Ieft there, and while he would have
BREAKFAST and supper, that would no
natter il he starved in the end.
But Old Reddy was too greedy an
make a mistake when he nlannoa i.
nave Madame Goose and Old BIacl
llen come up on the rope together. fo,
d course he did not intend to lowe
the rope to Mr. Fox at all, but to NAH
OH with the hen and goose.
Mr. Fox saw through the plan Wa,
enough and when the rope was ,ov
sred he told Madame Goose and N,
Black Hen to leave a short end q, An
.ope and not to cling to the very end
just as soon as the rope was VOL :,
Mr. Fox sprang up and grabbed N.
end, and, expecting to >,
,H0 Top almost as soon as his break
asst for which he was determine. :.
-sH'' but his plan did not work on
as he planned, either, for whom -,
rOA GRABBED the rope Old Reddy vs.
not expecting haoy
, ha,a MIN SO hard he fen into (,
so u, tumbling against Nj. For as !
'l' ana there they were Il the ~
tom Kicking and prowl,r.. ,..s.,