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H03 lllllllht poured down on the dry pllturo tlhld beside the road. No cows were in it today. for they had been moved to where the (run was greener and fresher be- side the merry brook that sparkled along its way. A frisky wind tos- nd the dusty birch leaves and lildfod at the twittering brown sparrows perched on the telephone wires. You would expect the field to be very quiet but it wasn't Two boyl. in short pants and cot- ton '1'-shirts were running back and iorth in the empty pasture. What could they be doing?
Bobby held a strange looking brown paper object under his arm. if you looked closely, you could see it had a long tail of twine with Dieces of paper fastened all along it. Have you guessed? Yes, it was a kite. Blair was there too. with his kite and this is the story of two kites.
Brownie was Bobby's kite. it was quite large, made like a long diamond. with two crossed sticks, inside. like bones, to hold it to- gether. On both sides was pasted strong brown paper and from ine end hung a long tail of tied. twist- ed papers. From the front end was a very, very. strong long cord rolled up on a stick. Bobby had made two very fierce looking black and orange eyes on his kite. "So it could see where it was going."
Greenfly was Blair's kite. It had been made of strong dark green paper. in the same way as Brownie. but it had silver eyes and its braided tail had gay red. silver. and green banners. It felt very proud of itself.
The wind blew stronger. and the two kites began to tug at their strings. The swallows were swoop-
ng about. and the kites felt like oining theri.
"Away you go. Brownie,” sang out lobby as he started to unroll the cord and run against the wind. Brownie struggled clear and with many swoops and dives. first on the ground, then in the air. he finally managed to get up higher than Bobby's head..
Greenlly shook himself out, and at that instant in strong wind puf- 'ed him high in the air, almost as high as the telephone posts.
"Ha. ha, slowpoke. Why don't vou climb as fast as I do?" he rang out to poor Brownie down below.
"My kite is much prettier than yours." Blrlr said to Bobby. "Set- how it glistens in the sun. It flies higher too."
Bobby said nothing. ior he was too busy untangling his cord. But Greentiy heard and called. "Hey Brownie, did you hear that? I'm prettier than you. far prettier See how high I can fly. I can dip and dive and twist and turn Brownie is ai slow poke, slow poke. slow poke!"
lrowriie was no slowpoke. Soon his cord was untangled and he started to climb. Slowly he inched his way up. little by little. as Bobby unwound the string so he could go higher. He did no stunts and put on no airs. but paid at- tention to his own business as he climbed higher and higher. Now the telephone posts were away be- low him. Now he had passed Green- fly. Now the two boys below look- ed about as big as kittens. he climbed.
Greenlly saw him passing and tried to catch up. He had twisted and turned and had done so many fancy tricks that he was quite
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"Woof! Woof!" said Buster Bear in his deepest, most rumbly, grumb- ly voice. He was at. the foot of a big tree looking up. Above him, just a little out of reach, a young chuck was clinging to a big limb. Farther out on that same limb was Prickly Porky the Porcupine. It was a question which was the most most surprised, Buster Bear, the young chuck. or Prickly Porky.
The young chuck was Buster Chuck, son oi Johnny Chuck. He had climbed that tree without thinking what he was doing. Bust..i er Bear had appeared unexpected- ly. Sammy Jay, who was near by, had seen him first and had seen the danger the young chuck was in. He had shrieked at the top oi his voice telling the young chuck to run. The young chuck had look- ed up, seen Buster and. instead oi running, had scrambled up in that tree. Woodchuck are not sup-
dizzy. He looped around again and straightened out to climb, but something was wrong. He pulled and tugged. Still he was stuck. What could be the matter? Then he looked at his beautiful tail and saw that it was tangled round and round the telephone wires. Blair could not pull him clear from the ground. Greenfly knew then he was lost for good, and tears gathered in his beautiful silvcr eyes. Down on the gi-ound Blair felt sad too at the thought of losing his lovely kite.
Just then who should come alonll but Peter's father in the telephone truck. He saw the boys and the kites. He stopped and called. "Are you in trouble. Blair? Perhaps I can help." He took the ladder off the truck, and in. a few minutes had reached the kite. He tried to free the tall. but it was so tangled that he coudn't. Out come his shiny pocket knife and slice! off came the kite. He carried it down to Blair whose shining eyes light- ed with happiness. "Oh. thank YOU. thank you for saving my kite."
Greenily felt sad and a little ashamed of himself too. As the two boys started home. Greenily whispered to Brownie. ”llm sorry I called you a slow poke. I got
into trouble because l'thought I was so smart and so pretty and tried to show-off. When I'm fixed up again for flying. we'll go climb- ing together, but no more showing off for me.” And that's how Green- fly learned his lesson.
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