Evening star., 1922-11-18
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&rBEDTInE,
Farmer Browns Boy Is
Greatly Troubled.
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
A true heart counts no trouble great
Ihat eaYea one frum a dreadful fate

true heart counts no trouble great
Ihat saves one from q dreadful fate.
Farmer Browns Boy.
Farmer Browns Boy, in starting
out to look for the runaway young
Fox was depending very much on the
wonderful nose of Bowser the Hound.
he hoped that Bowser would be able
to pick uD the trail Of the young Fox
and lead the way straight to him.
Hut bowser didn't. No. Sir. Bowser
didn't. You see, the ground was very
dry and 1t had been many hours since
the young Fox had started on his way
TO freedom. By the time Farmer
Brown's Boy and Bowser started out
i, there was no scent left
Bowser did his best. Yes. indeed.
Bowser did his best. He didn't know
just what he was expected to do. That
Is to say. he didn't know that he was
expected to find the trail of that
young Fox. Bue he knew that Farmer
Browns Boy expected him to hunt
some one. so he ran this way and that
way. with his nose to the ground.
smiling and snuffiing ana doing b's
best to md trail which he could
folle~.
They went across the Green Mead
ows, over to the Old Pasture. Farmer
Browns Boy had a feeling that that
ture. All the time that Bowser was
trying to find a trail with his wonder
full nose Farmer Browns Boy was
looking and looking for "igns Of
dragging chain. But though Ii. tramp
ed this way and thay way along many
cowpaths in the Old Pasture. he found
no signs to show that the young Fox
had been that way.
The longer he tramped the more
worried Farmer Browns Boy became
II must find him. / must find him"
he kept saying over and over to him
self. Perhaps he didn't come to the
Old Pasture at all. Perhaps he went
up through the Old Orchard to the
Green Forest. / will go over there as
soon as / have thoroughly hunted
through the Old Pasture"
1t was the middle of the afternoou
and Farmer Browns Boy was about
ready to start for the Green Forest,
when Bowser gave an impatient yelp.
His master understood that ye1p. 1t
menat that he had caught a whit of
the scent of some one who had passed
that way. Bowser yelped again. Then
for a few minutes he was silent.
His master could see him running
back and forth this way and that
way, with his nose to the ground ard
his tail wagging more and more eA-
citedly.
Presently Bowser lifted his head and
all within hearing that he had found
trail. Then away he started. bayinE
as he ran. Farmer Browns Boy knew
that Bowser had found the trail of
Fox. There was no doubt whatever.
He plunged after Bowser as fast az
he could go. He hadn't doubt that
Bowser had at last found the trail
Of the young Fox and would soon
catch up with him, for. of course. the
young Fox could not run fa&t with
that chain dragging behind.
But after n while Farmer Browns
Boy began 20 doubt. Already he had
been led far from the place where
Bowser had first found the trail and
1t appeared that the Fox was running
without the least trouble. /: simply
couldn't be the young Fox. L. must
be that Bowser had found the t!ail
of another Fox. In this Farmer
Browns Boy was right. for Bowser
was chasing Reddy Fox.
! At last Farmer Browns Boy had ~
give up. 1t was getting .ate and there
was work that must be done at home.
So with a sad heart he trYlseI homH.
He didn't enjoy his supper t',a, night.
All the time he was eating he kept
wondering il his pet had any food.
When he went to bed that night h
didn't sleep good. He sert waking
up and worrying about tina: youne
Fox. I've got to find him" he would
say. i've got to find him
Copyright. 1Gcc22. by T. W. Burcess.)