Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-27
CHAPTER "
The HowIer In the Tran

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SstnIoNKEYS Follow the strange
lvl tracks and you viii find two howl
ing monkeys" rumbled Judge owl. with
an odd chucke, as nc went back to
sleep In his hollow tree.
Peggy and Billy bent over the tracks
70 study them closely. They didn't look
much like monkey tracks. for monkeys
have loug fingers and toes on their
paws and the toes shown by the tracks
were very short.
"Perhaps the monkeys are EOrillas,
the biggest of all monkeys" whispered
Peggy "I've seen pictures of gorillas
walking olR their hind legs, and they
might make tracks like these.
we will flnd out IL we follow the
tracks far enough" declared Billy
They hadn't gone very Ear when they
heard a bowling ahead Of them.
The bowling monkeys" whispered
They crept forward very carefully. for
they didn't know whether the bowling
monkeys were wild or tame. big or
small.
Peggy mo regular monkey could make
Billy parted the bushes so they could
look into the valley, Then Billy laughed
1.-THE animal that was bowling. and
thrnshing about was their old friend
Lonesome Bear
'.ow-ow-ow, I'm in tap wv
ow-ow Get me out :" howlcd Lone
some Bear His voice sounded 50 full
OF misery that Billy quickly stopped
Laughing and ran forward with Peggy
to help him. Lonesome Bear was sit
ting in the midst Of a berry patch but
there was no sign of the trap in which
he said he had been caught
where is the trap cried Billy
"ow-ow-ow I'm sitting on it."
howled Lonesome Bear That struck
Billy as being very funny, and he
laughed until Lonesome Bear stopped
h Inc IL,
funny If your tail we're caught in 2
trap" grumhled Lonesome Bear
'Ha, ha, ha How In the world did
you ever get your tail caught in
trap?" laughed Billy.
II saw the trap in the berry patch,
and as | don't like traps I sat down OFT
1t to smash 1t. But it didn't smash: it
caught my tail instead. Ow.ow-ow-
ow!"'. and Lonesome Bear again stated
stop your noise and roll over 50 We
can get al the trap" said Peggy. Lone
some Bear stopped his bowling and
rolled as, far over a. he could got
Beneath him they could sec a shining
steel trap with its jaws fixed tightly
In his stubby tail
The trap was very strong and Billy
and Peggy had TO work on it a long
time before they could press II open and
let Lonesome Bear loose. My. but he
was glad to get free.
That's the last time I ever fool with
q trap, even though It ia only rabbit
trap" he shifted What can I do to
reward you for saving my tail and my
life"
Billy answered quickly: You can
show us where the Strawberries are
ripest. and you can tell us what
animals made the strange tracks we
have been following through tho
forest.
So Lonesome Bear showed them where
the strawberries We're ripest. sweetest
and juiciest and while they were eating
he studied tho strange tracks.
Don't you know what animals made
these tracks," he shifted with Il ChuClSle
like that of Judge Owl
NO. we don't" answered Peggy.
'"rhe tracks were made by two jolly
little goblins who are roaming through
the woods eating berries and doing good
to other folks. They saved nc when
] might have pershed from hunger ana
from pain
And now Pcggy and Billy were more
puzzled than ever.
(TomorrorC rUt be told how tbey
hors an adventure urh Old Tirler
Turtle.