long as my own."

"They're not real horns," said the other sadly. "That is, they're real
only a part of the way."

And looking more closely, Kiddie Katydid saw that what he said was true.
It was, indeed, Leaper the Locust. And he was greatly changed in more
ways than one.

He had lost his old, quarrelsome air; and he had become very meek and
mild.

"Don't tell my cousins what I've done!" he begged Kiddie Katydid. "I
don't want them to know who I am."

Kiddie assured the poor fellow that he would not betray him. He was
sorry for Leaper the Locust.

"You'll be glad when your relations move on, won't you?" he said. "Then
you can take those bits of grass off your horns and be yourself again."

Leaper's answer almost took Kiddie Katydid's breath away, for it was a
most surprising statement.

"I'm never going to be a Short-horn again!" he declared. "I shall wear
my horns long to the end of my days."

He kept his word, too. And so earnestly did he try to be like Kiddie
Katydid in every way that he even attempted Kiddie's well known _Katy
did_ melody. But he never really succeeded at that. Anyone with an ear
for music could tell the difference at once.

Luckily the grasshopper horde soon swept on to new fields. And a few
warm rains, with sunshine sandwiched in between showers, soon turned the
countryside green again. It was really _Pleasant_ Valley once more. And
on fine autumn nights Kiddie Katydid's shrill music could be heard more
than ever near the farmhouse.

Leaper the Locust never could hear enough of it. He was always begging
Kiddie to repeat the odd ditty about the mysterious Katy--hoping,
perhaps, that sometime he might learn more about her.

But Kiddie Katydid guarded his secret too well.

THE END

TUCK-ME-IN TALES

(Trademark Registered)

By ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

AUTHOR OF THE
SLEEPY-TIME TALES and SLUMBER-TOWN TALES

=Colored Wrapper and Text Illustrations Drawn by HARRY L. SMITH=

A delightful and unusual series of bird and insect stories for boys and
girls from three to eight years old, or thereabouts.

THE TALE OF JOLLY ROBIN

Jolly Robin spreads happiness everywhere with his merry song.

THE TALE OF OLD MR. CROW

A wise bird was Mr. Crow. He'd laugh when any one tried to catch him.

THE TALE OF SOLOMON OWL

Solomon Owl looked so solemn that many people thought he knew
everything.

THE TALE OF JASPER JAY

Jasper Jay was