Show BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN CHILDRE N by THORNTON W BURGESS GOOD WORD FOR GLUTTON anice HAT is where peter Is not only nice but smart as well kind hind words always make friends and never make enemies and the more friends one has the better nut but it with any such selfish purpose ti that it peter does it peter says kind things because he thinks kind things now as he sat eat on the edge of the pond of paddy tile the beaver depp deep in the green forest and listened to the news from the great woods in the far north its as told by honker the goose who had just stopped over for to the night peter was hearing for the first time of glutton the Wolver wolverine lne buster hear bear and prickly porky and paddy the beaver and honker the goose knew him well and they knew n 1314 buster ter turned and stared at peter very hard no good of him buster had said sald that everybody hated glutton that he was as so selfish that when lie he found more food than he could eat lie he spoiled what was left so that no one else should have any that he was so smart in a bad way vay that no co one could hide bide anything from him and that lie he was so strong and savage that most of the people who lived in the great woods were afraid of litin him then honker the goose had told how lie he had watched glutton follow a trapper and find and pull up all the traps no matter how cunningly they were hidden so that no one would be caught in them atthe at the same time stealing nil all the tood food which the trapper had put out ns cis halt bait to lead little fur coated people into tile the traps lie ile told how glutton had broken into the littledog little log house of tile the trapper while tile the latter was away ano an had stolen or ruined all ills his supplies so that the trapper had been forced to go away to get more of course while lie was away the little people la in tur fur had nothing to fear from traps peter had listened with ears eara wide perl open when bonker had finished peter spoke did I 1 understand you to say that glutton Is all bad and that every one hates him he asked you certainly did growled buster bear in his deep grumbly rum bly voice ile he a friend in the world funny replied peter pulling ills his whiskers thoughtfully the matter with the people of the great woods nothing the matter with us growled buster the matter Is all with glutton oh I 1 dont know returned peter it may be you dont owe glutton an anything tiling buster but it seems to me that some others up there in the great woods owe him a great deal buster turned and stared at peter very hard peter said lie he slowly you are the first one I 1 ever knew who could find a good word to say for that ugly robber 0 of honest folks perhaps no one ever has tried to find a good thing to say retorted peter 1 I never have found anyone yet who do some good for others once in a while even reddy fox now who freyou are you people who live in tile the great woods most afraid oft ot Ill and trappers replied buster promptly then it seems of me that any anyone one who can and does get the be best st 0 of f them and actually drives one of them away avay Is doing something good very good indeed for the rest of you glutton may be a robber and may kill the smaller people when lie he can catch them but when lie he pulls up ill all tile the traps so well hidden that no one else can find them and leaves them in plain sight so that no one will get caught it seems to me that lie he lias has done a splendid thing for his neighbors and that they have no right to say that he be Is all bad just think of how many lives might have been lost in those dreadful traps but for him T hats so grumbled buster B dear ear scratching ills his head thoughtfully 1 I never thought of that Q by J T 0 lloyd arvic |