Show TO I 4 a aI I THE OF SAMMY JAY By Thornton W Burgess Buress Selfishness may be so greedy It takes horn lorn those who arc are most needy Old Mother Nature I IOn On the feeding shelf which he e had fastened to a window sill of ot his house Bro Browns Brown's ns n's Boy JOY had put some borne raw peanuts At first he put out just justa a few to tee see ee it If any ot or his feathered friends would eat them lIe He didn't ha hase hae e long to wait alt to find out Yank Yank the Nuthatch was the first to disco er theal He Ho promptly seized one and away aay he flew lew with Ith it over to a tree in the Old where he hew edged w edged it in a crotch and then with I his sharp bill opened it and ate the tho nut meats Sammy Jay whose sharp eves ees miss that is g on n saw Yank Yank Yani fly from that shelf and watched Hatched him open that peanut lIe He saw l w much I Yank Yank enjoyed what he lie had found That was a queer thing Yank Yank had said Sammy I 1 wonder what it was I must fin find out about that Yes sir SU I must find out about Iha that t I lIe He waited until Yank ank 1 flew back to the window shelf chelf for tor another peanut Then Samm Sammy hurried over to the crotch In the apple tl ee olleTe here Yank Yank had opened the first pea pea- peanut pea peanut nut Of 0 course courso all he ho found were pieces of shell He Ho picked up one oneto r to see If It It was good to eat but decided it wasn't Yank Yank peeked at that thing as If he heI I were ere opening it thought Samm Sammy These pieces of queer thy diy stuff must be pieces of the cov coi cring ering There must I Iha ha hai o e been something good Inside I I think Ill I'll visit that shelf shelt m myself mi self So Sammy S flew over where here he could look do down dou u on tha that t feeding shelf lIe Ito had never neier been on that shot I Ih li h had found round plenty to eat ent on the I ES E'S In the Old Olt d It dIdn't I II I take site two seconds foi fOl those sharp ey e esI es I C While he was opening and nd eating It Ithe Ithe he saw Yank Yank fly down for another an or of or his to see that thai on that shelf nero ere some things which he had bad nci nc never er seen on any of the other such sheh shelves es lIo Ho looked hooked sharply all aU about to make SUI e eI I that nobody was as watching him ThEn I lie he flew ne nedo do down don n on the shell shelf and sharply e a ed those peanuts I I dont don't know what hat they the are mut mutt muttered muttered Sammy but but 1 I m mu going to find I out If they hey are good for tor Yank they probably ale aie just as good for forme forme me He Ito picked up one of or those pea peanuts fori nuts and then holding It firmly In his claws on the edge of o tle the shelf ho he heI I hammered at It with his stout bill I Now ow a peanut shell is not i very try cry hard and aad it didn t tak take Sammy lo long to open that and el the brown brown- brown skinned nut meat Inside lIe He picked It out and ate nto It Mv My I e- e Simmy that was good It I Is it a long hong time since I have tasted an any anything thIng ds s is good goot as that I 1 must hav have another So Sammy picked UI up another and tIe v over to an apple tree to cat eat It While heas he was as opening and eating It Ithe ithe he saw Yank Yank fly down n for tor an- an another another another other At once Sammy became pig piggish piggish gish Yes sir he lie did so There are ar not ver very very many of those things s over 0 er on 01 t shelf muttered Sammy and 1 must make mako sure ure of oC my share hastily swallowed S allowed the nut meat ment he had and flew over 0 r to get another Instead stead of ot stopping to open and eit et thione one he hid hit it in a tree in the Ola Or Orchard chard and ant hurried back to get one Bae and forth as fast as he could fly Sammy Jay flew each taking away a peanut pen nut and hiding it until thero was is as only one left leH Yank flew down for tor that one but hut Sammy Sammy my saw him and flew over 0 os er el there a fast as his wings could take him hIDI mine ho he shrieked And Aa l heas he was as so very ery Ery much bigger Yank Yank flew olt olf without the pea ped peanut nut Copyright 19 1923 3 by T W The next net Sammy Jay ThInks Himself 1 Very Smart |