The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-01
LITTLE STORIES FOR BEDTIME
Farmer Browns Boy Visits Paddy's Pond.
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ev THORNTON W. BURGESS.

Farmer Browns Boy was very
busy these beautiful spring day,
Tor the good brown earth had to be
prepared for the seeds. and the
seeds had To be planted. and in all
lhis Farmer Browns Boy had
bhare, and was glad. for he had
earned he JOY that comes with
work well done. There has been 4
lime when he had thought that 1t
vas very dreadful that he should
have to work. and he had envied
The birds and all the little people
bf the Green Forest and the Green
Meadows, because he thought that
they had nothing TO do but 10 play.
But rs he learned To know his
little neighbours better, and 10 love
Them, he little by little discovered
hat they had 10 work, every single
pne OF them. or they could not live,
and thai those who seemed hap
bjest and whom he loved best. were
khe hardest workers OF all. lie
Watched Johnny Chuck dig, and the
birds make their nests, and jerry
Muskrat build his wonderful house,
Ind all OF them hunt for their daily
food. and saw that each one OF
them has part OF the work OF the
great world TO do and is happy In
doing IL. And later he made a
great discovery. II was that when
he had done his share of work wei
land cheerfully he enjoyed his play
$time a hundred tunes more than he
possibly could have had all his time
Ebeen playtime So then he began
Ito find pleasure in work, and then
The found that the better his work
was done the greater the pleasure
The felt.
1t was several days after he
found out that Mrs. Quack was com
! ing at night To feed on the corn he
scattered among the bulrushes of
! the Smiling Poo. and then flying
straight into the Green Forest. be-
/ fore he had a chance to visit the
pond OF Paddy the Beaver. He was
fairly itching with curiosity to know
/ II. as he suspected, Mr.. and Mrs.
Quack had decided TO make their
home there for the summer. and as
/ he worked he kept thinking OF
them
cit will be perfectly splendid If
they have" said he. They will be
perfectly safe there unless Reddy
Fox is smart enough 10 catch them.
Smart as he Is | don't believe he Is
smart enough for that. One thing
n sure, and that IL no men or boys
will brighten them II I can help 1t.
I'd like to make friends with them,
but they have been shot at so much
that am afraid they never will
trust me. Anyway, I'm going to
try"
The very FIRST chance he got he
started for the Green Forest. his
pockets filed with corn. II was
q long tramp over TO the pond Of
Paddy the Beaver, but he enjoyed
Il, for there was so much TO see
and hear As he drew near the
pond he took tho greatest pains not
TO make a souno. He had learned
by his visits to the Smiling Pool
how watchful Mr.. and Mrs. Quack
are, and how very, very difncult II
Is to get near them when they are
suspecting danger. And he knew,
too, that there would be another
Waterman on guard with nose and
keen ears smelling the air for tell
tale scent and listening for the tin.
TEST suspicious sound. And he knew
that that Waterman would, give
warning by slapping the water with
a great broad tail the very instant
he suspected any one coming. That
Waterman was Paddy himself.
So Farmer Browns Boy took care