Evening star., 1917-05-19
lI1TILE lI1TILESI0RlES
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS.
Copyright, 1917. By T. W. Burgess.)
Dusky Continues to Learn.
Learn q little every day,
While you work and while yo,


While you work and while you play
If you do this, some day you will be
thought very learned and wise. ANY,
way. you will be great deal better
fitted to get on in the world. knowledge
Is the most valuable thing in the world
especially when you know how to use
1t. And knowledge never just comes to
any one. 1t is the result of learning
things day by day and then remember
ing them. And the very best way of
learning things is to find them out for
yourself. 1t is very easy to forget a
thing you have been told. but When YOU u
find thing out for yourself you will
remember 1T for long, long time. That
Is why Mother Fox was so tickled when
Dusky found out for himself how she
had broken her trail. She knew that
he would remember it always. and so
in time of need would know how to do
the same thing himself.
A few days later Mrs. Reddy took
her four children out for a little trip
to see a little of the Old Pasture She
told them to follow her tracks with
their noses. and then if she should hap
pen to get out of sight they wouldn't
get lost. So Chubby, Stubby, Cutie and
Dusky dutifully started out with their
funny little black noses to the ground.
Dusky, being little the biggest, led,
and the others followed Remembering
how his mother had fooled them the day
she broke the trail at the big stone,
Dusky guessed that she might try some
new trick to puzzle them this time, SO
he kept his nose right in her tracks
The others were quite willing to let him
do the work, and there were so many
new and wonderful things to see that
they soon forgot to keep their noses to
the ground.
Their mother soon slipped out of
sight. Dusky had expected she would
and grinned. The ground was damp
and the scent left by her feet was
came to a tiny little rill of water. and
right there the scent stopped. Dusky
stopped and cooked his head on one side
with an air of great wisdom very funny
to see. Sammy Jay. who was watching,
wanted to laugh. Dusky grinned.
IT'S another of mothers tricks"
thought he. It wonder what it can be-
There isn't anything for her to jump
up on and she couldn't have jumped
very far without jumping off of some
thing"
He jumped across the little rill him
self with his little black nose to the
ground. But he found no scent of
Mother Fox. Then he came back to
where his sisters and brother We're sit
ting about wondering what to do
Dusky once more sat down and cooked
his head on one side and stared at the
tiny stream as if he were trying to
see something IN IT, InlS mas some
thing to do with it," thought he.
Then he trotted along up the bank
with his little black nose to the ground.
For quite little distance he ran. but
found nothing. Then he turned and
ran back to where he had started from
and where his sisters and brother were
running about quite aimless1y. Dusky
didn't stop. He went on down the little
rill with his little black nose to the
ground as before. This time he didn't
go far before he found the scent of his
mother quite as strong as when he
had lost it. A few bounds farther on
he found her sitting on a little hum
mock from which she had watched
him all the time.
Then she told him that she had sim
ply walked down there in the middle
of the little rill because running water
takes away all scent. And so Dusky
learned another very important thing
that water is a splendid friend when
you know how to use it.