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chapter 10 of the bad little owls this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by disha shetty the bad little owls by john breck the big rain puts an end to evil doings for a time i'll just tell you the wife of the bad little owl was glad to get on her wings she flew so fast that her mate flying along behind her said hey killer can't keep up with us at this rate where are you going i'm scared to death of that wicked weasel she answered i'm going as fast and as far as ever i can what a way to talk he hooted indignantly the poor fellow was hungry no wonder he was cross just as soon as he gets a good meal he'll be friendly again we can't change a hunting ground with the storm coming on there won't be any grasshoppers to speak of and it takes so many of them to make a meal we mightn't have the luck to catch a sparrow and we wouldn't know a single mousehole it's too dangerous it's not nearly as dangerous as killer snapped his wife he didn't make you come right down close to him the way he made me he could have got me i won't risk it again he made me give him that robin answered the little hee-owl but i don't care a bit i'm tired of eating robin's think of all we had to carry home from the robin's roost and we didn't help him kill a single one now if we help him kill the mice we'll get every other one of them um and he smacked his beak wasn't he just a greedy little bird his mate wheeled around to think it over she certainly didn't like the looks of that storm besides it wouldn't hurt to show killer the stump the minute he took his eye off her she'd hide and she wouldn't come back until after he had eaten and gone she could hear him calling her mate answered with the funny little yap owls used between them when they are hunting together down she dropped but she gripped her claws good and tight into the branch of a tree near the mouse's stump before she called here we are
panted the wicked beast i didn't know where you had gone
lots of tracks here all right enough he chuckled it was inky dark so of course he couldn't see that the footprints of the mice were all leading out and none leading back in again you remember check jay had sent every little tales cuttling out of the woods and feels as fast as mice could run scritch scritch if great grandfather field mouse had heard killer's claws staring at the rotten wood he wouldn't have boasted that no one but a bear could break in and eat them then boom crash rip splash down in one blinding sheet came the first rain of that storm it was surely a bad one the hop toad was right when he said that there was going to be rain floods of it there was and there was wind and lightning and thunder and terrible squeaking and squawking and rustling and pounding all the noises that make a storm such a scary thing of course it wasn't as bad as jake jay told the mouse it was going to be buttermiles didn't know that they were all hidden in the stone pile by the cornfield fence or in the logs and stumps in the deep woods some of them even went all the way up to tommy beale's barn and hid in the straw stack they didn't hide in the haystack because
but first i want to tell you the rest of what happened down by dr muskrat's pond the owls tried to fly home but their wings got so waterlogged with the rain that they had to creep into the hollow oak that was blown down in the terrible storm the time nibble rabbit rescued the woods folk who were living in it and had a storm party in his little cornstalk tent killer tried to hide in his crack between two stones in the bank of dr muskrat's pond but the water found him first it trickled in from the ground above where louis thompson's little blanket tent used to stand and moose washed him out and then the pawn grew fuller and fuller and higher...