The Detroit times., 1916-08-22
LITTLE STORIES FOR BEDTIME
Longeg's Breakfast Is Snatched Away.
,copyrixrt 1919 by r.
81 THORNTON ". BURGESS.

81 THORNTON " BURGESS.
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N.r eat ,our dinner t.u YOU see %.
/ t.af tsN ty nb tIl you Evt w.nEs.
N- Vash YOUR face until ysu WEI
Iou.lrSs The Heron stood amouS
/ .le rGsh,s oH The edge ot The Smll-
ug Pool and his eyes were bright
With iog Just little way out I'm
.raut ~ him school o. uiuuows
were q, play and l!,,le by i,tlc they
. were drawing nearer and nearer
/ ,crE'eEs knows an aaou' r2iunows.
ie knows Jus, how needless and
.Are.pss they are when at play and
/ ag kuoVs THAI they dearly love 90
/ play among The bu,~usheS lou see
/ "a aeu LongleEs .snf aboul hey are
safer there than anywhere else. and
hey know 10 Our IN the deep va.
/ Ter live big FISH, Who are quite a.
fond % m'nDows as is Long.ess
himself but where the bplrushes
grow the water is very shallow. r.
.s not deep enough for the t,s ash.
! hg' plenty deep enough for Altle
u,nnoWs Then. TOO, there Is al
ways plenty 20 sat there.
SO LongIegs felt sure that 'hes,
u.nuoNs ne WAS watching would
soon come swimming around hi,
very feet. FOR he knew that they did
no, know that he was there he
had waited so loug fhal his stomach
was So empty that ne Eel, as II the
bottom VAS dropping out OF n. Nof
so much as a single pol,yVog had
shown itselt This VAS because
GraCdtathrr F'rog had seen Long
legs when he arrived and had
warned the goi'ywogS 20 keep away
from where be was You know the
po,,yvoEs are grandfather Frog
children. grandchildren and great
grardchldren. 80 when AZ last
IonEles= saV those miunows ne was
happy he fej, absolutely sure OF
al least one @: them. and he meant
20 pick oGr n" biggest and tattest
Now it Is one or rhe laws OF the
Great World that TO one can DO sure
ot A thing until be has Il. People
'h,ua they are sure of thiuEs Bus
ter Bear thought he vas sure % all
. The honey In Busy Bees srorehoas".
( but you remember what happened
He had eaten bur halt ot i' when
F Farmer Browns Boy gave him such
a fr Shr thar He ran away. leaving
he other raj; More than once
Reddy Fox has thought ne vas sure
Of catching Peter Rabbit, only to
, have Peter 70, away most lney
pectedly Then there was the time
when li',le Mr. Striped Snake caught
one ot The children of Suekyro.s
. 'he Tree Toad and had already be
z.n 20 swallow him He had every
reason 20 fbink ,Ea' he was sure oi
H-rle Srtofytoe-. bur alo0s came
Farmer Browns BOY and made hr
c-.ea gp U''jr StCkyfoes 50 yon
--- it is ot no u~r 20 oven 'alua
Won are ..r- OF anything uu't yoI
have lr where .r canno, gst aNa}
or 0e ,azen away from yoa The
only time yoE can be- sure OF din
ner IS when If is In .oa- stomach
LongIsg- knew this Anyway he
ought 20 have known g. But fh,
fact. the plain sae'. remains that DO
+ thought hr Ma sure of one 90 .ho-a
/ mlan0v- He could almost feel The
. comfortable sensation of one o,
them vrizgling down his long throat
I 20 his empty stomach Nearer the
careless minnows came, aud nearer
The head Of DongIegs was drawn
/ back ready 20 DO shot forward with
The speed o' lightning The big
ges' latest minnow was lazi.y
swimming straight toward him and
was almost within reach
Right then something happened
ont from ne Biz Hickory Tree on
the bank Of the Smiling Pool flea
another fisherman Re Nas not very
/ big. he wore a pointed cap which
made his head look too big for his
body. and he vas modes'ly bu'
handsomely dressed in blue and
gray and white Straight out right