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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER 8, rf Page Seven ' lit i ! i if rHATTERER TRIES SOME TRICKS Ltterer the red squir- was He grow-no S hope. iiRELbad zZa and more tired and still as he ran through the ,v,ilo hhind him came Weasel. At last he he felt that he had that tired tso a few minutes of have eot to "! Perhaps he could fool Shadow. Ly be would try. He ran down "the ground, wiggled his way J, a big pile of brush, hurried ' another tree and started up. instead of going nearly to the ual and then leaping across s on a little another tree he ran out Ki stub of a branch only half way tree and jumped straight over ?L trunk of another tree, where in the rough sharp claws caught V Aod as ne jumPed there was jjp behind him. Chatterer knew tit meant. The little stub from he had jumped had broken 4 tired jfi 5 -- ij off close to .iii.il j.i.i.iu.iL u iium .... . u. i, ih.lhii um in i. '. ' y .J,r' .J'. i ' a a '. o ?t t II J !WSBi?W5SV:-- ".WWft-.. .4 r .: r '.w :. .: . 4he trunk of the v'" little ray of hope he had, first j puij into Chatterer's heart. j st0ie Here would be nothing now to show tjjow the Weasel in which direc-- i Chatterer crept j he had gone. lit an old nest of Sammy Jay's lijje he could watch and rest and Cf lis breath, He didn't have to Ljllong. A long slim form came finding along the ground in long tps. Chatterer trembled all over tan he saw it. It was Shadow the Straight to the tree from tcli Chatterer had jumped he tjt and up to the placf- where the Me dead stub had broken off. There Shadow ran up a vs trail ended. away above and circled wholly - ' g. - ' i li : ! tree trunk. His nose told aftatno Squirrel had been there, 'en he returned to the place where little dead stub had been broken and looked across to the tree in Chatterer was hiding. He knew by the Chatterer! i in those fierce red eyes that fooled. He knew ;w wasn't inhere he had gone and he didn't to see Shadow run down the :?tand across to the one in which ' sas waiting. No, sir, he didn't had the -- - K ;.- cl! Poor ; ? - ; V - ; " v.;''-'-v j! s ' 1 I-- .fra-7 -- ; r ill'-- f r ...--- i . w-v-. . I ' ! ' I1 - ..- 1 . , -- V . ' " - f t i " ' - ' j ; I WmTZ V had. S He had a wee bit of rest and fiance to get his breath, and now ; started on again headlong as be- with the same great fear lJng at his heart and the little of hope quite gone. But that StJrst f little ray of hope he ,J trick had given him a few min-!- n which to rest, and so present's tried to think of some other though right down inside he ;Katit would be of no real use. s time he g tried criss-crossin- own trail, running back and and round and round all over 'Branches of a spruce tree, and once more ran on, this time J the ground, until he came to Jlow log. He ran in at one out to the other, back along the of the log and then did it all "again, finally making a long 1 from the end of the log off to side. ,H behind came f& He actually d the U the if Shadow the grinned when sPrilce tree and criss-cros- trail. It didn't s a bit. His wonderful him through every twist and pUiatterer had made and he (5 Perfectly well that Chatterer (f Mm fil. W yery- - very tired-&!dih- e hollow lQg he half Chatterer there, but he wasted no time. iSe,out,?t the other end and Aauhttle circle around the find Qtt (Today, John Jones is just an average American, wrestling with all the doubts and worries and problems that beset every one of us right now. But let's skip ahead 10 years. Let's look at John Jones then and listen to him Sometimes I feel so good scares me. . . . ) it almost "This house I wouldn't swap a shingle off its roof,for any other house on earth. This little valley, with the pond down in the hollow Vt the back, is the spot I like best in ' all the world. "And they're mine. I own 'em. Nobody can take 'em away from me. "I've got a little money coming in, regularly. Not much but enough. And I tell you, when you can go to bed every night with nothing on your mind except the fun you're going to have tomorrow that's as near Heaven as a man gets on this earth! "It wasn't always so. "Back in '43 that was our second year of war, when we were really getting into it I needed cash. Taxes were tough, and then Ellen got sick. Like most everybody else, I was buying War Bonds through the Payroll Plan and I figured on cashing some of them in. But sick as she was, it was Ellen who talked me out of it. " 'Don't do it, John!' she said. 'Please don't! For the first time in our lives, we're really saving money. ' It's wonderful to , know that every single payday we have more money put aside! John, if we can only keep up this saving, think what it can mean ! Maybe someday you won't have to work. Maybe we can own a home. And oh, how good it would feel to know that we need never worry about money when we're old!' "Well, even after she got better, I stayed away from the weekly poker game quit dropping a little cash at the hot spots now and then gave up some of the things a man feels he has a right to. We made clothes do cut out fancy foods. We didn't have as much fun for awhile but we paid our taxes and the doctor and we didn't touch the War Bonds. "We didn't touch the War Bonds then, or any other time. And I know this: The world wouldn't be such a swell place today if we had!" i m! 'BOOST YOUR BOHD BUYIHG G3 E3 C3 Mr 1 y THROUGH THE PAYROLL SAVHOS FLAH hlS nose WlT t0 nd. the Hound circles 'Reddy Pox has tried U fool Vi maing a long jump to one V inutes he had found hi !utrai1 once mor he V JS 6 8me11 to&t Chatterer le way ahead. ? very to run a little faster. !'"ay as well end this "chase said he to himself. "I f ! w. P dW; Wl treel"reaay ior tnai Muue Svery next CS,.?U W3r Hal There he is mon?y to copper p4lttvee18 111 coppers at . K Warninj l,v.mmd me of my mother." , r Giotto : ow do speak to you V you make that out? ent down io history. This Message is a Public Service Feature of the Bear River Valley Leader |
