Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-07
Flip Loses His Breath.
Who does his best finds no disgrace
II he doth lose well run race. -,
Antelope Jack.

Flip was as excited as small dog
very well could be. Farmer Brown
Boy was taking him for walk ana IL
was the first good chance Flip nad mao
to really stretch his legs, and tney
needed stretching. Anyway, that Is the
way he felt 1t was strange country
they were in. At least, it was strange
To Farmer Browns Boy and to Flip,
though. of course, It wasn't strange at
ali To the people who lived there. It
was in Arizona and they had come
with Cousin Tom by airplane, for the
latter was an aviator. Now they were
to snend some time on ranch ana
FARMER Browns Boy was as eager as
Flip to get acquainted with this new
land. &c.,. S
Farmer Browns Boy, used to the COOL
green carpet of grass on the Green
Meadows at home, spreading shade OF
MANY trees, and the many shades OF
green of bushes and vines and young
trees. could see little Of beauty In THIS
land of sand and heat. Growing plants
there were, but they were very ditferent
from the plants back home ana tney
grew in clumps or singly. The coarse
grass grew in punches. In time ne was
To And beauty there, but at trst II was
all merely odd and strange.
Flip was so happy that ne raced
around in circles as fast as ne couio go
and then back to his master. After q
while he began investigating every
hunch of grass or plant along the way.
Suddenly as he poked his 1nqulsltlve
little nose under a bush some one
;,,,,,nad out from under the other side
and bounded away as If In no hurry
;ust No hurry at all. Flip started after
hit when he got where he could get a
GOOD look at this stranger he stopped
from sheer surprise.
"That must be one OF Peter Rapnlt 8
Cousins" thought he, but whoever
heard of a Rabbit with such long legSF
And those ears! oh, my goodness LOOK
at those ears! Why. Jumper tne aare
hsck in the Green Forest doesn't know
,'ro.t long ears are. I didn't suppose
tl,ere were such ears. No, sir. didn't.
7 ei,nnose that he thinks he can run.
Well I'll show him a thing or Two
aho,,t running. Yes, sir, I'll show him
a thing or two about running.
with this. Flip settled down TO run
,,iro and at the same time barking. he
was so excited he had to bark. He al
WAYS banks when he Is exclteo: now
Fin can run fast for short distance.
YES. indeed, he can run fast ana ne Is
rather proud of It. There wasn't
this big Rabbit run as he had never
mn before. I suspect that ne really
exnected to catch this fellow II he didn't
and shelter in a bramble-tangle or Q
hole or a hollow log, and none OF these
things seemed to be handy.
But pretty soon Flip stopped barking
It took too much breath to bark. He
needed all his breath for running. You
see, this stranger didn't appear TO nt
hlrrying at all, yet Flip couldn't gain
an inch on him. He Travelled in grea.
bounds that took him over the grounc
surprisingly fast, yet seemed TO De ooine
II so easily that 1t was no effort at all
He bounded so high sometimes that u
seemed as If he must have springs II
He wasn't grayish brown like Peter
Rabbit. nor was his coat the color Of
Jumper the Hares in Summer. In fact
as he ran he looked to be largely white
Farmer Browns Boy wished he woulc
sit still long enough to allow his real
colors to be seen, and presently, having
gotten far ahead Of Flip. he did stop
Then it could be seen that while ne