Show BM A 11 m hiern arm inquisitive POSSUM I 1 WAS S air owl who nho save gave the wood IT folk the warning by culling calling out one night to whom it may concerril concern concer lil 1 at least the wood people knew that was what he meant lint but anybody else might have thought he just cried to to so when nil all the animals both great 11 and nd small had gathered around ill ills tree he be told them that in ills his opinion it was to be a very very hard winter that of course meant that they must begin right away to lay up stores for the cold snowed ln in days and everyone be stirred himself at once to do this even mrs rabbit who seldom teado much preparation for the winter days began to jo do up preserves all the small bunnies were sent out with their baskets to gather corn and beans and beet tops and all sorts of good things it if we ae cannot get them green said mrs rabbit to her neighbor mrs y ite z N A I 1 all the small bunnies were sent out with their baskets squirrel anvie w can an get them stewed but of course we war much prefer them in their natural state estate mrs squirrel to encourage her neighbor in up winter stores gave her at a mg big basketful of walnuts which mrs rabbit pickled and some say bay those were the first walnuts ever pickled but this story stort la Is not about pickled walnuts it is about the nice preserved preserves that mrs rabbit kabble put up and the accident that befell mr possum everybody that passed mrs rabbits home tor for many days found it liard bald to get by iler her doar I 1 for such alce smelling odors as came oil out through the open windows made everyone teel feel hungry air bossum vossum was specially interested when gelfound hel found that mrs rabbit was among other things putting up a great deal of canned corn and lie he decided that when it was dark he would just take a peek into her pantry window and see how bow many cans she had right night in front ot of the window was a tree and one limb hung low enough so that mr possum with a little core care could easily swing himself from it and reach the pantry window now this might havie have been 1 en safe enough if the limb lind had been a good one but it and when mr possum ran along it before he could even get ready to swing crackle snap went thi lire limb and down went mr possum into g a barrel of whitewash sirs mrs rabbit had ready to use on her little house ho m and that was not the worst of it he ran home so seared scared that he remember running at till all after it was oer 01 er mrs possum know him but thought he was some terrible white creature come to carry off her children and slammed the door right in ME ills face all night sir air possum had to sit outside sl dethe the whitewash dripping from his coat and in the morning bright and early all the tittle little bunnies gunnles and sir mr and sirs mrs rabbit as well vere nere standing in front of the house I 1 looking at him mrs airs rabbit wanted to know what lie meant by currying carrying oft off some of her whitewash hIte wash sir air rabbit and I 1 and all the little bunnies tracked you an and d you need not deny it she elie said mr possum did not try to deny it for what was the use lie he was all covered with the white stuff but lie he did try to tell mr air and sirs mrs rabbit that it was nil all an accident that lie was just running along the limb and off it broke awl and he happened to tall fall into the whitewash mrs possum had bud found out it was her husband by this time of course and E lic fhe came caine out to say that what sirs mrs rabbit could think they wanted of her whitewash was wag more than she could tell mrs rabbit wiggled her nose and looked very wise well she said it if that Is true sir air possum that it wits was all an accident why of course that Is all there Is to it but you must admit that it did look suspicious mr possum admit admitted tid that jt it did and off ran the rabbit family for home but it was a long time before mr possum could go abroad again for the white coat he wore was to be plainly seen in tho the daytime or it at night copyright |