The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-08-22
LITTLE STORIES FOR BEDTIME.
Longlegs Breakfast Is Snatched Away
Copyright 1914 by T W. Rursess)
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS.

BY NONN ON W. pON0CoS-
Don't count your chi--eus till they're
Nor eat your dinner tan YOU get a.
Don't Try Ia Nv TIL you set wings,
Nor wash your face until YOU VET
Il
Lonslegs the Heron stood among
the rushes on the edge ~ the SmiI
ing Pool and his eyes We're bright
with Joy Just llttle WAY out IN
front o, him a school ol miunoW
we're AZ play and little by little they
were drawing nearer and nearer
Longlegs knows all about rainnows
He knows Just how needless and
careless they are when AZ play, and
he knows that ,hsy dearly love 10
play among The FURNISHES You see
when Longlees isn't about they are
safer there than anywhere else. and
they know e. OUT in the deep wa
Ter 1--we big ash. who are quite as
fond OF miunows as IS Longlsss
himself. but where the oulrushss
grow the water Is very shallow. IL
Is not deep enough for the big Ash.
sut plenty deep enough for little
minnows Then. TOO, there Is a.
ways plenty 20 eat there.
80 Ionglegs fe,t sure that these
uicnoVs BE vas watching would
seen ect,tr swt-''-rt,;'s arourt hts
very feet. FOR he knew that they did
not know that he was there. lie
had waited SO Ions ma, his stomach
was so empty ma, he felt as II the
bottom vas dropping out OF il. Not
so much as single pollywog had
shown Itself This was because
Grandfather F'rog had seen Long
Eggs when hs arrived and had
warned the po.lyvogs 20 keep away
FROM where he WAS. You know the
po,lyWogs are Grandfather Frog :
children. grandchildren, and great
grandchildren SO when al LAST
Longlezs saw those minnows he va,
happy He fe,t absolutely sure o;
NJ least one % them. and he mean,
20 pick out the biggest and tattest
Now i, ls one OF the laws OF The
Great World that no one can BE sure
~ thing until - has IL People
think they ara sure OF things Bus
FER Bear thought he vas sure OF al
%. honey IN Busy Bees storehouse
bur you remember what happened
tie had eaten bur half % Il when
Farmer Browns Boy gave him such
a fright that he ran away. leaving
.1- other halt More than once
Rea1y Fox has thought ne VAS SURE
u catching Peter Rabbit. only "a
have Peter get away most uneI
pectetiy Then there was the 'im.
vheu l.r,ls Mr. Striped Snake cauEh'
one 90 the children o. Suckytoc.
BE Tree Toad and had already De
gun 70 swallow him he bad ever!
reason 20 'h.nk that he was sure 81
G''l- S,ieEytoes but along came
Farmer Brown Boy and made him
cough up little Sticky'Oes So 20,
So. t. Is o. no use 70 even thin
y5u are sure Of anything un'H 20,
have lt where Il cannot get ava
or b. taken away from yog The
ouly time You can be SUR o, a In
ner j. Thea Il is In your stomach
L.onglc-- knew this. Anyway h'
ought 20 have known b. But tn
fact. The plain fact. remains that h
thought he vas sure % one 81 thos'
mlnnows He could almost feel th'
comfortable sensation 81 one o
them wriggling down his long th-oa
70 his empty stomach Nearer tn
careless minnows came, and nearer
The head OK Dnnglegs vas draw
back ready 70 be shot forward will
tho speed OF lightning The big
gest. latest miunow was laEill
swimming straight toward him an'
was almost within reach.
Right then something happened
Out from The Big Hickory Tree oil
the bank OF the Smiling Pool he7
another fisherman. He was not YER
big. He wore a pointed cap which
made his head look TOO big FOR hi
body. and he was modestly bu
handsomely dressed in blue an
gray and white. Straight ont RICH