Burgess Bedtime
Stories
By THORNTON W. BURGESS.
Temptation wears a harmless guise,
And often thus deceives the eye*.
—Old Mother Nature.
Spotty the Turtle Finds a Tempting
Bit.
Spotty the.Turtle was prowling
around at the bottom of the Smiling
Fool. That is where he gets most of
his food. He was hungry this rnorh
Ing, and somehow he had had no luck
at all. Every pollywog he had tried
to catch had been too nimble for
him. He had succeeded in nipping
off the tail of one and that was all.
This had just made him hungrier
than ever. '
To be sure there were water plants
which he could cat, but he wasn’t
feeling like water plants. "I'll fill
up on them if I have to,” said he to
himself, "but I don't intend to unless
I have to. ,It is queer where al!
the insects have gone to. Usually
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there are plenty of the little fish, hut
for some reason or other they are
all hiding. Ha! So that's it!”
Spotty had discovered a big. ugly
looking head thrust up from the mud
at the bottom of the Smiling Pool.
He knew it at once for the head of
his big cousin. Snapper the Snapping
Turtle, and he knew now why those
little fishes were hiding, and why the
tadpoles were keeping buried in the
mud, and why he had had no luck
In finding insects such as live in the
water. It was all because of that
ugly looking, big cousin of his.
Spotty swam away to another part
of the Smiling Pool. He popped his
head out of water for fresh air and
for a look around. *He was just in
time to see Farmer Brown's boy
como to the bank of thelBinlllng
Pool. Unlike Peter Habit and so
many other of these little people of
tlie Green Forest and the Green
Meadows, Spotty was not acquainted
with Farmer Brown's boy. Of course
he had seen him many times at the
Smiling Pool, but he never had really
made his acquaintance. So Spotty
was distrustful. He dived at once.
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and went clear to the bottom. Down
there he couldn't see Farmcr^Brown’s
boy.'and knew that Farmer Brown's
boy couldn’t see him. So he no
He was Just In time to see Farmer Brown's
Boy come to the bank of the Smiling Fool.
longer gave Farmer Brown's boy so
much as a thought. He continued
to hunt for something to eat.
It was not long after this that
Spotty heard a little splash in the
water up above him. At once he
turned to see what it meant. Some
times a splash like that meant that
food had fallen in the wa_fc?f. Almost
at once he saw something coming
down through the water that made
his eyes grow bright. with eager
ness. It was an earth worm. Yes,
sir, it was an earth worm, and it was
wriggling in the most enticing way.
Spotty likes earth worm*. Sometimes
after a heavy rain many of them are
washed into the Baughlng Brook and
come down into the Smiling Pool.
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Then Spotty joins with the u*h there
In having a feast.
"The very thing!"' exclaimed Spot
ty. "I don't know where that worm
CJtne from, but it doesn't mailer. I
know where it Is going! Yes, sir. 1
know where it Is going' It is going
wiiere it will do some one tin most
good, and that some one is me." He
swam rapidly toward that wriggling
worm, and the nearer he got to it
the more tempting it looked.
(Copyright. 1S23.)
The next story: "A Worm That
Could Bite and Fight."
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