Evening star., 1917-06-05
lT1IILESoRlEs l1ILE
6BEDTInE
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright, 1917, by T. ". Burgess.)
Chubby's Mother Discovers
Her Loss.

While Chubby Fox was having such
n dreadful time lost in the Green Forest
things were happening at home. the
she had wandered away. You remem-
ber that Chubby hadn't intended to run
away. All she had intended to do was
to go a little way to see something of
the Great World, and then run home
again before her mother should return
and find out that she had been disobe-
dent. And you remember that Club
by's brother, Duskys had tried to keep
her from disobeying and that Chubby
had said that If Dusky kept his tongue
still and didn't tell her mother would
never know.
It just happened that hunting was
very poor that morning, so that Reddy
Fox and Mrs. Reddy were away from
home longer than usual. In fact. they
were away some time longer than
usual. Mrs. Reddy was the first to re-
turn. Dusky and Cutie were sitting on
the doorstep watching for her. Stubby
was down inside the house. At the
sound OF his mothers voice Stubby
came tumbling out. Now. Mrs. Reddy
had brought back only three small mice,
( SO when Chubby didn't appear with
Stubby Mrs. Reddy was rather glad of
1t. She gave each of the others a
mouse and sat down to watch the three
would be time enough to call Chubby
out when Reddy Fox should return
with something for her to eat.
But after while Mrs. Reddy
thought 1t queer that Chubby didn't
come out. 1t wasn't at all like Chubby
not to be on hand when there was any
eating going on. While the three
youngsters were busy with their break
fast their mother went into the house
to see what Chubby was doing. In a
minute she was out again.
Where Is your sister?' she demand
ed sharply.
i Dusky looked at Cutie and Cutie.
looked at Stubby and no one answer
ed.
where is your sister," their mother
demanded again more sharply than be-
fore. and she looked straight at Dusky
Now Dusky didn't want to be a tell
IT don't know"
Dusky dropped his eyes. His mother
knew by that that he knew some
thing and she guessed right away that
while he was trying to be truthful he
was also trying to keep something
from her. m 81 She knew that Chubby
in the house she had disobeyed) an6
gone beyond sight of the house. Either
she was hiding or else she had wan
dered away.
men way Qlu Sne go. Qen AnQeC
Mrs. Reddy. Dusky knew by the tone
OF her voice that there was no use in
pretending. that he didn't know. fThere
was nothing for him to do but to. tel
the truth.
she went that way" said he, kpoint-
ing. with mis- funny little black dose In
the direction Chubby had taken! "She
said she wouldn't go far" he added
"Go into the house, all of you, and
don't one of you put your nose loutside
until I return" snapped Mrs. Reddy
The three little Foxes ohediently
trotted into the house. Their mother
watched until she was sure that they
bounded away with her moss to the the
ground to try to find the tscent OF
Chubby's feet. and her sharp. crafty
face face wore RE- such aan.r.s an an1ious tann worried
You see she knew just WHAT had hap
pened. She knew that Chubby was lost
and she was afraid. terribly afraid
that something might have3 happened
to her.