Evening star., 1936-08-12

SHE FINALLY CREPT AROUND
UNTIL SHE COULD SEE HIM IN
THE LITTLE PATH.
trap was set. Both traps were care
fully and cunningly hidden.
Now. that boy owned young
Hound, and like most Dogs of this
kind there was nothing that Dog de-
lighted in more than in hunting
Foxes. You see. he was what Is known
as a Fox Hound. In the Fall and
Winter his master often took him
hunting. In the Summer he wasn't
supposed to hunt. Nevertheless, he
would once in while slip away, just
for the fun of chasing a Fox Now,
when his master went up to the pas
ture to set those traps, that Dog was
left behind. He started to follow, but
was promptly sent back. He didn't
understand it. Usually his master
took him with him whenever he
the woods. So the Dog reproachfully
watched his master disappear among
the bushes in the pasture. BY and by
he saw his master returning. He no
longer had in his hands the things he
had been carrying when he left home.
OF course, those things were the
traps.
Now, like most people, that Dog
had share of curiosity. He won-
dered what his master had gone up
in the pasture for. He made up his
mind that at the first opportunity he
would go up there and try 20 find out
what had taken his master up there.
He was smart enough to know that If
his master saw him going he would
be called back. So he didn't start for
the pasture until dusk had fallen.
Then, watching his chance, he slipped
away. He could still get faint scent
OF his master and so had no difficulty
in following the trail You know,
Hounds have very wonderful noses.
The farther he went the more he
wondered what 1t could be that had
taken his master up into the pasture
Presently he came to little path. 1t
was path that led up to an old
Woodchuck hole. Mingled with the
scent of his master was Fox scent. It
was clear that Fox had used that
little path. 1t was an old scent, for he
got 1t only family, no matter how he
shifted. He trotted along that little
path. There was nothing about it to
arouse his suspicion that everything
was not as it seemed. He had trotted
along that little path many times,
just as he Wa, trotting along 1t now.
Suddenly something jumped out OF
the sand and seized him by a FORE
paw. My, my, my, how it hurt 1t
hurt him dreadfully and it frightened
him dreadfully, for he didn't under
stand it at all. He yelped with pain
and then he tried to free himself and
couldn't.
Now, just before that Dog arrived
Little Miss Swiftly, the young Fox who
was living in that old Woodchuck |
hole, had come out the back way. |
You remember that she was suspi- |
cious that there was something wrong
at the front entrance. Little Miss
Swiftly was just starting out to hunt |
for her supper. The yelp of that Dog
startled her. Her first thought was
that the Dog was on her trail. How
ever, in a minute or two she realized
that those yelps were yelps of pain. |
had happened to that Dog
and had happened right at that place
in the little path where she had be- |
come so suspicious and had turned
aside. AS that Dog continued to stay
in one place she finally crept around
until she could see him in the little |
path. He appeared to be held a pris-
oner. He was held by one foot and |
he was in great pain. He was whining
and whimpering. Gradually Little |
Miss Swiftly began to understand that |
there were dangers of which she had |
never heard. 1t was a startling les
SON.
(Copyright 1850