| Show CHILDRENS STORY by 3 THORNTON W BURGESS jo 1 1 i ni 1 JERRY RESUMES WORK A danger past Is a danger past so why not just forget it watch out instead for the one ahead until you ve safely met it f FOR a couple of days jerry musk rat left his snug room in the bank only long enough to get a bite to eat and he was gone only a little while then for he had little appetite the rest of the time he spent curled up in his bed of soft dry grass occasionally lick ing the wounds made by the great cruel claws of booty the owl luckily you know it Is the very best treat ment little people in fur can give their wounds it keeps them clean and alu 3 he was still sore and rather stiff wounds kept perfectly clean heal rap idly but while he be y there arry did a lot of thinking strange to say he didn dian t feel the hurt of the wounds in his body half as much as he did the hurt of the wound of his pride serves me just right he kept saying over and over serves me just Ju right I 1 m too old to be caught napping like that theider the idea of me living to be as old as I 1 am and then being caught by booty the owl I 1 I 1 hope no one saw it I 1 should be al most too mortified to live my friends knew of this I 1 shall I 1 ave to keep out of sight until my wounds heal then 1 I shall have to think of some good ex cuse to explain the tears in my coat in case any of my ne ghiors notice them I 1 hope no one will if any of them should know the truth they would think I 1 have gone into my sec see ond childhood tl TI ey certainly would it all comes of dreaming dreaming Is al right in the right place but it Is all wron wrong in the wrong I 1 place vv well ell what Is past Is past it Is all over now and I 1 in still alive and I 1 ve still got that house to finish two days later or to be exact two nights later jerry was back at his new house he was still sore and rather stiff but he didn dian t let that in with his work no siree he didn dian t let that interfere with his work jerry found out a long time ago that the aas est way of forgetting troubles Is by working the busier you are the less time there Is for you to think about yourself so jerry v ent to work again with might and main but he didn dian t forget to keep a sharp watch for danger the part of jerrys jerry s house that he had to build now was the part which would be above water ater and which every one who passed that way might see jerry was very particular about it he was very particular for several reasons the first reason was the best of all reasons safety jerry pro posed to spend much of his time in that new house duran during the winter he ile would sleep there a good deal there tore fore it must be made as safe as pos sible if the walls were ere trail frail and poorly made there were certain n sharp claws which might tear them open 1 in the dead of winter this would never do never in the wide wide world so jerry was very particular about this part of his new house he ile intended that this upper part should be just as good as the foundations on which he had spent so much time and labor he fully intended to make male thi thle house the envy of all who saw it Q 1933 ayt W burgeon service |
