Show THORNTON W BURGESS JERRY is FILLED WITH DISTRUST jS AS JERRY MUSKRAT lay In his bed sate safe sao In his house bouse nursing I his sore taU tall he had time to do a lot alot of thinking and ho did do a lot lotof lotof lotof of thinking Ho He thought of how day after day he had found all those good things to eat at each of his favorite eating places and how there had not been one ona single thing to make maye him suspicious In tact fact there had been everything to take suspicion away lie began to understand un understand understand just what that trapper had tried to do and It seemed to him that nothing noU ng could possibly have hava been een more unfair He tried to make me ma think he be was my friend frend thought Jerry lIe knew mew that If I 1 had bad the least suspIcion that he wasn't my friend I would be watching ng for or traps So he pretended that he was my friend and he ha brought all those nIce thIngs to mo me to eat so that I would trust him hint I did trust him and he be knew it it Then when he was waa sure that 1 wouldn't suspect him of do- do doi doing doing do doing i ing such a thing he ha set let that awful trap for tor me I ll 11 never trust any any- body anybody again I never never nover whit willi Its It's awful to distrust everybody but after atter this Ill I'll Just have to So Jerry Muskrat was filled with distrust lIe He had been so 80 very hap hap- happy happy py there In the Smiling Pool for or so long that now life seemed hardly worth while There was no happiness happi ness neBS In It It You see he felt that not only could he no longer trust those who seemed to be his friends buthe but buthe buthe he was suspicious of everything lie He Heno lieno Heno no longer dared to freely climb out ot of his hia favorite places along the bank He was even suspicious ot of i the Big Rock The only place pl ce where ho he felt absolutely safe was right in 10 inside inside side his own house bouse But Dut of course he ho couldn't stay In his own OWl house all the tho time because he had to eat Of course couse Every Every- body Everybody has to eat Then too he ho had hada hada a lot of ot work ye yet to do on that house of his to make It ready for win win- winter winter ter This meant that he be had to travel around considerably to get his food and to get the tho material for his house But now he never went ashore without first looking with the greatest care caro for signs of a trap One of the first things he did after he got through nursing his sore tail was to go to each of the places where that trapper bad put good thingS to eat He lie went there not notto notto notto to get those good things but to find out if there them were traps thero there as there had been on 00 the tho old log lie found a trap at each place After Atter i that he did not go near these places Billy Mink would have found a way to bet all those good things to eat I without getting Into one of the traps but Jerry preferred to take takeno takeno takeno no chances lIe He simply kept a away way from those places Those pieces of carrot and apple were a terrible temptation but t te e contented himself him sell self with his regular food and tried to forget that there were such things as carrots and apples And even when he was hunting for his regular food he was all the tho time watching out for tor traps He was so tilled filled with distrust that be he took too no joy In anything C i T W DarICe ServIce 8 |