Show 10 1 0 BEDTIME by o 0 Ws W 44 STICKY TOES TELLS JOHNNY CHUCK A SECRET I 1 1 joani johnny chock wan was stilly wl 1 ng himself in order to make more fat rat before seeking hie file bed to sleep bleep the long winter away he lie did a lot 0 of fth thinking you know one can tb think 1 nit anil and eat at the nine name lime time very nicely what van johnny chuck thinking about ile ie wai was jb inking about tho the coming winter nd ad tho the curious way ways in which his hi friends and neighbors would spend IL 11 when oilier other people do things in a different any from the way we do them w we aro are very apt to think e their way ways nr ar curious quite forget ting that to them our way day may seem lust just as curious to johnny chuck there la Is only ODO one sensible may ay of spending the long months when rough tough M and ind and jack frost roar and howl and pinch and squeeze and tint li Is to curl up comfortably way down where hough tough brother nind and jack frost cannot reach him and eliere sleep until they hare have got a back to the tile far borth land johnny chuck alway always thought of it ns as tile i lie only sensible thing to do ilo ile sometimes quite forgot that it was wa the only thing he lie could do and so took the tile credit for sense and wisdom which really belong to him you see johnny has no choice in the matter lie ile hae has to sleep bleep that way because in the win aln ter cr there Is tio thIng he can eat dut but this ie Is oot not so with briny of his ills neighbors some sortie of then thern rat eat things which can be kept for a long time without spoiling nol ling like nuts and and those who eat theme thinea things pack thero them away into moro houses or hide tilde them where the tile can ond find tl if out then in the winter they sleep bleep in bad ven genther ther and come coms nut out li to piny play n little and to set get food from their hiding places pla cs in pleasant weather happy jacs jac squirrel and chatter tho tile cited squirrel ilu do this striped chipmunk pop pops up for a breath of frish nir air on warm sunny days in u inter jimmy slunk Is an other who wh biceps sleeps only part of the 1110 fine time lie ile does not store up food in storehouses but like johnny chuck himself stores it ill up in to ills tie form ot of fat flu out he doea does not depend on th wholly A as a doe does johnny lie ile like to coille out and prowl prow around a little when tho the snow li Is not too soft aud and deep then thare are other others like and granny fox old 1 man coyote hilly billy mink shadow the weasel and little joe otter tier not to mention pe ter who alway always harings to find enough enoi ieli to eat through the thee winter and so do no mure more leeping sleeping then than they do in the that in why they are provided with thick warm coots conta the same thing in true of the feathered folk folks ex el copt that none of them sleep bleep at all aw win in ter those who cannot find 00 oo flyway to the anny sunny southland where they cin end ond it johnny chuck was thinking ot of these things nit be he ato ate and ate and aa aa 1 I I think said bald he that I 1 hav got quite as much sen ones a they have it to him film hat ida file was was tar far tho best beat way it irad saved a arnt a nt deal 0 work slid lid worry he ile devir woold fl never wae was hungry it made maue no dIt Terence to him ani want the anther might be lie ile wondered that everybody do the saine thing filing he lie knew that wise old grandfather father I 1 rox men rind of old mr str dooe dool thinking of old mr hr toad alm of tho the tree who had find pent spent the tile summer in the apple tree of the old orchard he ile and johnny tind had he ile conio come great friends being stich near neighbors at tile lie thought of liiro film johnny flopped stopped eating I 1 wonder wild said lie right out loud where he lie spends the winter 1 hert her 1 who tie i I 1 ter naked a small oleo it ana ns the voice of Sticky loes ant there 11 1 was almost under a no au e hy boil exclaimed johnny chuck I 1 I 1 was just thinking think lne of you and wondering if it you have HJ i much sense n nik your counias coni cou ln 1 I I 1 mr sir rond an and d Grand grandfather rather arg do ni no I 1 do steel bleep nil all winter inter and i nn wondering if it you do the same thing Sticky tica chuckled it nna ins i a throaty little chuckle 1 I think enid sold he tie tt tin at I 1 lieve got 1 quite ai an much sense na as they havn in fact I 1 think I 1 ve got a it little more can you keep it secret jot tiny chuck I 1 certainly I 1 can replied johnny chuck just try me arid am stick too tops hopped a tittle little nearer to johnny chuck and arid johnny chucka chucks eyes grew round with surprise you really meno that he asked salt lie could hardly bellere believe what had toll him every feord ord of it replied Sticky toe tos but remember it Is I 1 a secret now I 1 trust hurry or I 1 et of nil fill be too inte late wished johnny chuck a ions long sleep bleep ith lea a ant dreams and started on p 0 W burgo I IN service |