Chums & AEsop’s Fables
By
ERN SHAW.
Copyright.
w;ni° ne f afternoon the Chums lay in a field of hay enjoying forty Winks, for they were tired out after a long tramp. - th 7 safc v up - with a startl What was lfc had awakened them from their hearty sleep ? Again it sounded—a snarl ana a growl. i ? ee P in S. through the hedge they espied, a little way off, an angrylooking terrier with a bone in his mouth. He was standing on the edge of a pond gazing at hi s reflection in -the water. What he thought he saw u was d °g with exactly the same kind of bone as he had. mi k + a Pu ghe< ! T ? d<J y> “ he is n’t satisfied with the meal he has got, but wants another dog s, too. Just then the dog made a snap at his supposed enemy, and the Ind hls dr °P ped “to the pool with a splash, and sank to the bottom. Then it was that the truth dawned upon him ana he set up a dismal howl. “ Serve him jolly well right,” exclaimed Golly. “ That should be a b ° MtisM ” ith their sharo of good t “” 63
(To be Continued.)
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Otago Witness, Issue 3875, 19 June 1928, Page 79
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