Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-12
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURES
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CHAPTER III
what the Dark Glasses Saw

%. what the Dark Glasses Saw
IUpGE OWL didn't seem much upset
D when Peggy told him OF Caw.Caw
Crows plot to have the crows attack the
birds while they slept.
who! Who Phoo! .Phoo y hootsd
Judge Owl, swelling out his chest as ne
stood in the doorway OF his hollow Tree
'Id like 10 see any rascally crow uaIe
10 show his nose in Birdland after nisnt-
fall That's the time I'm best as watcn.
man, | can see so well In the dark tna'
I'm a match for a dozen crows.
But you're not n match for q nun
dred crows" Peggy reminded him
while you are fighting your dozen, the
. others will be thrashing the sleeping
birds and wrecking their nests
Judge Owl had to admit that was so.
No matter how brave he might pc, one
owl couldn't drive away q whole hock OF
crows
What shall do?" he asked Peggy.
u should think the best thing would
be to wake up the birds and tell them
fThat's easy" replied Judge Owl, and
st'once he began to hoot a warning 10
'Whoo! Whoo. Wake up! Danger Is
sbroad in Brdland! Whoo Whoo
Judge Owls loud voice sounded In the
silence Of the gloomy woods as i1Ha psqsy az
thought IL would wake up the birds IN
a hurry and put them on their guard;
To her surprise. however, not piro
seemed 70 stir. ....
Now this wasn't as strange as one
might think The birds were used 70
rong to bed at sunset and sleeping
,oundly until dawn in the morning They
we're used also, to the hooting OF Judge
Owl In the night. They knew when they
heard .h'a hoots in their dreams IL Was :
still! sleeping time and they went rient
on dreaming. not trying to wake up.
Had rooster crowed they wouid naVe
Just snuggled down as cozily as tney
could against the stormy wind ana let
Judge Owl 60 on with his hooting.
Even Homer Pigeon, who had brougnt
BIly's warning note to Peggy, couian I
keep awake. He yawned and yawned as
he perched in pine tree waitins 10 oine See
what Peggy and Judge owl were gong
10 do. and finally he dropped on to sleep;
"whoo! Whoo! What shall l do!
walled Judge Owl again. =, ,,,,,-. ,
Il think we'd better look for BUY,
replied Peggy His note to me said that
while foes we're plotting against you; ne
was plotting, too. II we can md MN
we can learn what his plot is. The crows
will not come until moonrise'
1T Is nearly moonrise now,' hooteo
Judge Owl. looking off toward the east
ern sky. Wed better hurry"
But when Peggy came to look for
Billy she found II had grown so dark
In the woods that che couldn't see wnere
she was going She banged into trees
and bushes and had a lot OF trouble.
Who. Whoo! You're binder than an
OWL Judge Owl hooted. III nave 10
get you my dark glasses"
Peggy thought that was rather FOOL
!sh OF Judge Owl, for II II was so black
she couldn't see with her own eyes. how
In the world could she see with DARK
glasses? But Judge Owl hurried back
to his hollow tree and got his goggles
III they help me see In the daytime
when I'm almost blind: they ought 70
help help you see in the night time" ee ar, ar,
goggles just TO satisfy him. Then, muer
TO her surprise she found that what he
said was actually true. She. could see
remarkably well with the glasses--not
50 we'll as she could see with her own
eyes in the sunlight. but we'll enough to
t.ake out the trees and bushes ana open
Places in the woods. and even an oc'
rasonal nest.
And one OF the first things she saw
m she turned toward the rising moon!
Sas black cloud sweeping toward
BIdland 1t wasn't an ordinary cloud!
either Peggy knew without being told
mat II was a flock of crows coming Tor
Their surprise attack on Birdland.
How the surprise attack Ia met by
other surprises will be told In tomor-
rows chapter.