The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-11
LITTLE STORIES FOR BEDTIME
The Boldest Little Mink Is SuIky.
BIZ THORNTON w BURGESS.
copyright. 1915. oy T. W. Burgess

hope YOU never Will
sulky person Is I think.
a sight that w. most iil
when the boldest little Mink who
YOU remember. dlsobeyed his mother
and a. a result came very, very near
10 furnishing Hooty the owl with a
dinner. WAS once more safely unuer
the pile az brush where he should
have remained. HE brothers and sis
ters crowded about him They saw
right away how HoOty claws had
torn his coat and they knew that
those claws must have hurt dreadful
Is But when they saw that he wasn't
So badly hurt that he wouldnt get
over IL they couldn't resist the temp
tation a. SAY uukind things. 80. SIR
they couldn't You soc that hoidest
little Mink had boosted 80 much ana
had called them "frsidics SO often
that row they meant TO get even.
one
You got your wish, didn't you"
Vow perhaps youU believe that
Mother knows something said
third
course not ! suspect that right down
IN their hearts they were sorry for
their foolish little brother. .Iiut lac
had hoasted 80 much 50 often pre-
tended 80 luok down on them because
they were not ~ hold as he that they
just didn't want 10 show their real
feelings But the fourth little Mink.
tho snn lest and most timid of all.
went H. the boldest little Mink aud
tried 30 show him how sorry she was
Sne gently tried TO care Tor his
wounds. hut he roughly pushed her
aside he didn't want her about tie
didn't want anyone about He wanted
a. yet IN nv himself That was be-
cause his pride was hurt quite ~
much ~ his body. He just wanted 10
be hy himself and suik. Yes sir
that's lust tho word-sulk
So he Craw led on by himself and
his brothers and sisters soon left him
atone When his mother returned he
wouldn't come cut For one reason
he was little afraid, FOR YOU know
~ was because he was dtsnhedicnt
that hc got into trouble. For sec.
ond reason he was stiil sulky He
didn'f w.ri 20 he seen ny any one
10 wanted lust 20 keep nv himself
md ~ ~ himself. 10 knew that he.
had been silly 20 boast a. hc had
He knew hat he had been very fur-
funatc 90 escape ~ ell and that tho
gain % his wounds was no more than
he deserved Hut 70 IL ono thine o.
admit 60 ourself that YOU have done
wronE and quite another thing 20 al.
NIT % g. others The boldesi littl'
Mink wasn ready 20 do that N"t
So ne STAYED rs himself and suiiSes
.e e. 9ts3t.,.s3 and ~Yifk Cd lie could hrar
hts brothers and sisters having good
tine and this mado him sulk at flf
more Ills mother made him come
oit wher- she could look him over
and Eee Just how much he was hurt.
when che saw that u really WASH
FERROUS she told him just what one ~
his brothcrs had told him that IL
served him right She said that he
ought 20 h~ thRnkfu l that he had go
capped with his llfe and that she hoped
this would be y lesson 70, him She
licked The wounds very tenderly
which is way that Nffie four footed
Ieople ~ he Green Forest and ths
a.
and then she paid no more attention
e. him Instead she went out for
fOmp IN the moonlight with hts
brothers and sisters
60 The boldest little Mink crept ~
Av himself once more and aulked and
tulked and was very miserable.