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Show M uaW 'IM-IIM lllllllllllllim VII OLD SUN MAN, SCOLDS fPHEItE had been many sunny days In the early spring, once upon a time, but Instead of building their nests and working s they should have done, two chattering young Robins and three Sparrows were quarreling as hard as ever you beard la a big tree in the orchard. Ted Squirrel ran over from tbe big tree at the edge of tbe woods, and when he beard what it was all about he began to wonder If he did not want that very tree, too, for that was what they were quarreling about, you aee. It happened that one young Bobln came to the tree. Just as the other had decided he would build there, and such a chattering and fluttering as went on I Then along came three Spurrows, and when they found that some one wanted the tree very much they nil decided that they wanted It, too, though they were comfortably located they would have a warm place to t-tay until tee sun shone again. Teddy Squirrel begun to think of the time he had wasted, for be had no more nuts In his nest and he was too cold to go out for some that he knew were hidden under a rock In the woods. By and by the old Sun-Man peeped out from behind a cloud and looked at the Robins and Sparrows. He peeped into Teddy's hole in the tree, too, and then he began to scold. "Why do you all think I made the days so nice and warm, I should like to know? I gave you two sunny days and you wasted them In quarreling over a tree. "Here are trees enough for you all, and many more besides, but you foolish' fool-ish' ones must pick out one tree and Insist that there Is no other. Get to work every one of you or I will go back behind the cloud and not shine again for e week." They all went to work, you may be iure, and there was no more fussing, for none of them wanted to have the old Sun-Man scold again or go away and make tbe earth cold and wet. -(Copyright.) . I.TWa VOUNO iAJZ.PT WW behind the attic blinds of Jie farmhouse. farm-house. All day they quarreled, and when night came the two young Robins i had to sleep In the branches without a nest. They had wasted the time In disputing and no work was done. But the first thing the next morning, when the sun came up, they all began quarreling ngnln. The Sparrows should have been repairing re-pairing their nests instead of quarreling quarrel-ing over something they did not want, for the winter winds had broken their homes and they were very ragged looking, Indeed. Teddy Squirrel, too, should have been at home making his nest clean from the shells he had left from his winter meals, but he, too, came back to say the tree was his because he had been looking at It all winter out of his hole In the tree at the edge of the woods. And so all these silly creatures wasted two warm spring days In quarreling quar-reling and the next morning they awoke to find the sky all gray and the air cold and damp. The two young Robins began to shiver. They did not feel at all like quarreling. The Sparrows wished they had repaired their broken nests so ..I-..I.IM. ..-jinn. 1 vm'xjmmmm'w.mimrmr'ma |