The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-10-20
The Sandman
Story
BANTAM CHICK

and boastf3!; he ran away from his
mother and he was always trying to
pick quarrel with other chicks in
the barnyard.
Some day you will get a good
whipping" said his mother. III you
do not keep away from the bigger
chicks. You are little fellow and
must remember it."
81 don't believe | am small" said
saucy Bantam Chick. Il feel very
big, indeed, and | saw myself in
tin milk pan the other day as 1t
stood by the fence, and | am very
much bigger than any other chick
around here" u-.-
you are a silly chick" said his
mother, "and some day you will
find it out"
What is the use of staying
around here with mother and the
others? | am getting too big to
follow mother any more, and would
like to see the world. / do not in
tend to stay shut up here all my
life as the other fowls have done"
Bantam Chick waited until all the
others were running for the corn
that had been thrown out for their
dinner and then he ran to the stone
wall and crawled through hole.
When he was one the other side
of the wall he stretched his wings
and tapped them. What big
world this Isl" he said.
Across the field he went and then
into the road. He found plenty to
eat, and it was not until it was
almost dark that Bantam Chick
thought of home or mother.
Then he began to wonder where
he would sleep, for he never had
slept out of doors in all his short
life. He looked around, and not
far off he saw house.
'Tll find place to sleep there,
! am sure, and in the morning will
travel more in this big world
So the foolish little Bantam ran
into the yard of the house he had
seen to stay for the night, but the
next thing he knew someone had
him by the legs and threw him into
a barrel so high that poor little
Bantam Chick could not get out
To be sure he had place to sleep
and plenty to eat, but he was pris-
Oner. The next morning Bantam
Chicg was put in a hen coop, and
there he, stayed for many days,
thinking over how foolish he had
been to leave his mother and big
barnyard where he could run about
all day.
eve are going to make him fat
and fry him. said someone, looking
in at poor little Bantam in his
coop.
"Oh dear, l am going to be eaten
up" he thought. How l wish l
had stayed with my mother and the
other chicks!"
One night Bantam Chick was
awakened by hearing someone near
his coop, and then he saw two
fierce-looking eyes close to him.
"You are little fellow said
the fox, for it was he; ''but you
seem to be the only thing in the
chick line about here, so | guess I'll
take you along with me-"
Bantam Chick flew about his
coop and tried in vain to escape,
but the fox poked and pushed at the
hen coop, and finally it was over
turned.
Just then the moon, which had
been shining. went behind cloud
and the fox lost sight of Bantam
Chick. A dog barked somewhere
and frightened the fox away. Ban
tam Chick scurried under wood
pile. @lS@Fs
AS soon as the first streak of
light came in the sky Bantam Chick
crawled out from under the wood
pile, shook his feathers and started
off; he ran and ran, nor did he
stop until he was far away from
the dreadful place where had been
made prisoner.
He was tired and hungry and
wondered if he ever should eat
again, when from the top of stone
wall sounded a crow that made
Bantam Chick stop and look. There
on the wall stood the barnyard roos-
ter. Bantam Chick had found his
homo without knowing IL