Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-07-01

IL sounds Ike a baby saw mill a lOnt
way OF. and II makes you sleepy. s.
the children listened 10 the cieada ant
went 70 sleep and had fine zap. S,
did Aristotle. Then they woke up anC
yawned and stretched themselves anC
went on picking berries-all except
Aristotle. II was a good thing they
had that nap. Ill tell you why later
At five o'clock their big pals were
full and they started for home. But
they had hardly got started before
Aristotle began to chase a rabbit. He
had been busy all day trying to catch
wOodchuck. He had chased wood
chuck into it's hole in the clearing. and
then tried for hours to dig up the hole.
He had not caught the wOodchuck,
and now he was glad TO start a rabbit.
Brother saw the rabbit plainly, and
It seemed to him to be lame. The
idea occurred to him that perhaps the
rabbit could be caught alive and kept
| for a pet. So he handed his pail to
| Sister and started after the dog
! The rabbit and Aristotle led him a
! pretty chase into the woods. Sister
was afraid of losing sight of Brother,
and she tried to follow them. She
had no trouble in doing this, because
Aristotle kept on barking. He was a
very barking dog, anyhow. He was a
Boston terrier. The children did not
name him Aristotle. Their father
named him Aristotle because the dog
looked so wise and wandered about
so much. He named him for q famous
wise teacher in Greece who used to
wander around and talk wisely as he
went. Aristotle only looked wise. He
was not really so.
When Sister found Brother and the
dog, the rabbit was hidden in a rabbit
hole, and Aristotle was trying to dig
him out. 1t was six O'Clock now, and
the shadows were dark in the woods.
Brother said that they couldn't very
we'll wait for the dog to catch the
rabbit, for very likely it would take
him all night to do that. Once Arts
totle did stay all Night in a wood
chuck hole, because he had got hold
of the wOodchuck and the passage
behind him was too small to back out
of. The men had to dig Aristotle out
that time.
So Brother talked to the foolish dog
and dragged him away by the collar,
and all three started once more for
home. They walked and walked, but
they did not come out into the open.
You see, they had got turned round.
You know what it means to get turned
round. 1t means to think the wrong |
direction is the right direction.
1t seemed to the children that north
was south. So they kept on going
north when they should have gone
south. The foolish young things went
deeper and deeper into the Great
Woods.
1t was getting quite dark. 1t was
seven o'clock. Then Brother said, Il
think we are lost again"
Il thinkS We are. too" said Sister.
Aristotle barked. / don't know wheth-
er he thought they were lost or not
1t is sometimes very hard to tell what
dogs think. Anyhow" said Brother,
lets have supper" "We haven't any
thing to eat except berries, said Sis
ter. "Of course, there are lots of
but they may be poison
0us."
"Of course" answered Brother. II
should never dare to eat mushrooms.
But berries are very good"
So they sat down, all of them, and
tie berries. Aristotle ate as many as
anybody. That shows how hungry he
vas, for he didn't care for fruit, ordi-
larily. Aristotle would not have eaten
wen peaches and cream, with sugar
m 1t, when he could get dog biscuit.
But now he ate blackberries till his
ceth were as black as ink.
Then they all got up and walked
ONE more, and then some. They
walked till their heads were dizzy,
nd they kept falling down. 1t was
o fun at all. The woods became
older and colder and darker and
arker. ,
"We must stay here all night" said =
rother land l am going to make a
heller for u.s." He took his knife .
nd cut some long saplilgs. These he
i'd against tree, so as to make
)rt of tent underneath. Then he piled :,
Dughs on top of the saplings fer +
'of, and they crept in, The ground \.
as covered with soft pine needles, y
I'd the place was really very snug.
But, oh, dear me, it then began to =,
in. In a few minutes the roof of =,
'ughs began to leak, and in little + :.
lille the rain beat through and made :.
e children very wet. 1t made Aris- :.
tie just as wet, too, and he whim- "
red and licked Brothers hand, and "
anted to get out of the shelter. =,
ave must stir around" said Broth -
"or we shall get very cold. So ~
me on, my dear
Sister got up bravely, and they, III
lrted on again, stumbling through al
e dark and rainy woods. cl
Finally Sister leaned up against a az
ry large tree-oh, tremendously
zee that tree was land said that nc
e felt too tired to go any farther.
e said she couldn't go another step. DIV
'All right" said Brother, who had m
'eady put his coat around her to tr