Show lie Stole From a Squirrel I was engaged In about the smallest business on Sunday that I ever did In my life Bald a Market street merchant to a Philadelphia Inquirer man What was that asked the friend friendWell Well sir I was actually so low ifown mean as to play sneak thief on a poor innocent fluUjtaletl squirrel l l uf rel out In the park You see I Lou L-ou t there iu the forenoon to throw myself around a bit nnd imagine I wua a boy agaIn gathering walnuts on the old homestead Well Ute children were to active In their quest for walnuts tint I stood no chance at all There were plenty of walnuts on the tree but none on the ground I gave up thu search and lay down in the shadow of a big oak tree Pretty ones I saw a pretty graceful brighteyed tquirrel bopping down from a walnut tree at a little distance and making fur the tree under which I rolled The brisk little fellow had a green coated walnut between gleaming little teeth Several light springs brought him to the trunkof oak and skipping to thu opposite side to that on wbieb I lay he deposited his i llzc among tome bigbdecayed gra jut up against the root of the uid tree Ihrn he looked 1 quickly about him for a second ortwo and hopped back to Die walnut tree He was soon among Its branches and had plucked another walnut which be placed with the first one behInd the oak tree He did It again and had returned once mom to the waluut tree when invaded his trenuretrove and stole all three of his walnuts I dont know why I did 1L Total deprav lie I Milmn < Rut cv heart emote mo when that innocent l graycoated fellow came jumping cheerily up with Ills fourth prize and sudden dropped it from his teeth when be discovered the robbery He tat down on his long bushy tall and I I expect be wept Then his beAdlike eyes fell on me and I actually believe be-lieve a diflerant expression came Into them Ho skipped back to the walnut tree and conscience was urging urg-ing me to return the walnuts when all at once there was a tremendous thump on the erdwn of my new delicate hued fall hat and half of a walnut bull fell by my aide Hooked Hook-ed at my bat and there wasanugly stain upon the crown where the greenish broken hull had hit It and epilied tome of its juice liefore I could get up the other balf of the hull cameburllng toward nieand glancing up Into the walnut tree I espied Mr Squirrel sitting there calmly pulling off another walnut and with lire in his eye I got out My hats badly stained but I deserved to bo bit in tho face by that frame little fellow who couldnt talk but could fight |