Show Little Stories for Bed Time By y Thornton orn on W. W Burgess HAPPY HAlPY J JACK AcK AND CHATTERER FEEL PEEL FOOLISH Happy Jack the Gray Oray Squirrel and Chatterer the Red Squirrel were out of ot breath breith Happy Jack aa aM puffins and blowing for fot he Is ia bl big biff and fat und It Is not so o easy for fot or him to rice race about In the time tico tops n us it H for fOI or his liti smaller slim lIm nimble nim nim- ble blo cousin Ch Chatterer So Happy app Jack was wag the first to stop He Het rat t on a branch way 3 up In the tho top of oC the tall tail hickory tr tree e and abd glared flared acro across s at Chattel cr who t tat rat on a a. br branch on the other side of or the taU tall hickory Co catch me mc could you jou OU taunted Chatterer You Just vult until J I do make you ou sort sorry you ever cr came caine n ar m my hickory latch hick ory on tree tre snapped Happy Happ JackIm JackIm Jack Im Besides It Isn't your our tree any more than It Its It's s- s mine replied Chatterer and made mado n. n taco face at his lais cousin Happy Jack Happy filliP Jack hopped up as If it h he meant to begin besin tho chase once more but he hid haU hida a n. pain In his 1118 side from tron running so 50 hard and so lon long or and so BO ho lao sat down a again agin ln Right donn lown Jn In his m-ls heart Happy Happ Jack know that Chatterer was right and that the tree treo didn't belong belon to him him an any m moio r than to his hili cousin But wh when n he thou thought ht of or all th those so bl big fat nuts with which the tall tail hickory tree hu laud hud been loaded greedy thoughts thou cha chased cd out rill nil thoughts of or right and ho lao said sail to himself again as ho hl hlf had f wild ald when ho first saw his cou cousin ln that Chatterer shouldn't have one of or them He ile stopped scolding long Jong enough to steal a K look at them thorn and then what then what d do you ou think Happy Hippy Jack did ho he gave such a It u ump mD of surprise s that lint t he hc ne nearly rl lost his balance balanco not a nut was to be bo seen een Happy Jack blinked bUnked Then he rubbed his eyes and J looked again Ho Ito couldn't see a nut an re c the husks in which the nuts had grown big bigand bigand bigand and fat until thc they were rIpe and the husks had opened but now no every cry husk huek was empty empt Chatterer sa saw the time queer look on Happy Happ Jacks Jack's face alec and he looked too Now ow Chatterer the Red fled Squirrel has lang very ory quick wits and ho he guessed right away what had happened He J-Ie knew that while they had been quan cling and Happy Jack had been chasing him aln round lound and roun round and o cr tho the top of the tall hickory tree thc they must have knocked down all the nuts which were just t ready to fall faU any any- wa way Like a lilt little 0 red hash flash Chatterer started down the tree Th n Happy ri Jack guessed cd too 3 and nd down ho started stalled as fast as he ha could go 50 crying Stop thief all the way When Whon 10 io reached the ground there was Cha Chatterer scurrying around and poking under the fallen alien leaves lea but he hadn't found a single ln lel nut Happy Jock Jack couldn't stop to quarrel all any more because you OU sec see he was afraid that Chatterer would find tho the biggest and fattest nut nuts mints So Soho o otie ho tie began to scurry around and hunt too H H was qu queer er very cn queer how those thoo nuts nute could have o hidden jut aol They hunted DuLl and hunted but no mils nul were to bo be Jc found S' S if Jt Then Than they flopped and stared up at the thc top of tho the tall hickory tre tree tree- Not cot a nut could they sec see Then the they stored stared at al each cach other and gradually a n foolish a aver ver or foolish 10 look crept Into each face here do you ou suppose C the they have hu gone to ask asked l Happy Jack In a queer founding voice olce Iu JU t then they heard heald some orno one lau laugh laush- hIn h- h it In Ins tit fit to kill himself u It t was Peter Rab bit Did ou take lake our OUt nut th they y both angrily I didn didn't t take takei No No replied Ieter no i our n nut nut- though wore now t yours an anyway ur And zul then he he went off ocr Into another fit lit of or laughter for foi Peter had seen Striped Chipmunk very ery hard at af work taking awa away those very nery er nuts while his two J Me big Is- Is cousins hall had been quarreling in ij inthe the tile tree tico top |