Show S JAY JU rs PEANUTS B Thornton Burgess lies Ha very apt to com come coma to grief grId Who ho lightly calls call another thief Old Old Mother Nature You c coated rascal said aId Bro Browns Brown's ns n's Boy as he be l looked over to where Sammy Jay was wot sitting silting In an apple tree tre looking as os innocent InnocentA M as It if lie h never nC in all nil hIs hi li life lite lit had haddon done thins rong You blue blue- coated blue coated rascal No wonder vonder I cannot keep a II supply of peanuts on that shelf You take tak them off ott and is tast si ta t as a I put them out Ot Of course cours that Is 18 thrift on sour our part but it Is not thrift for me to S In thoc There will willbe he be more He-more put out today and none nono tomorrow nor the th next day lou OU must t have hate enough hid hidden lien around hero herd to keep you fat and comfortable for some omo time So Bo though Sammy Jay ray hUll hung hulic around and kept a sharp tharp e c ov e on that v shelf tho the rest of that da day he a saw w no nomore nomore more peanuts peanut The Tho Th next morning he was on hand bright ht and earl early Not pEanut was nas AS to be b found on that shelf AU Alt morning ho be h hung around and still not a peanut It was waa tho the same way woy that afternoon The next day he fared no better D By 13 that time Samm Sammy was beginnIng to long lone tor for peanuts To be b sure sur there were plenty ot of sunflower er coeds see toed ls he ate at man many of these But ho bo want wanted vant- vant ed peanuts So at last ho decided that he h havo have to eat cat sonic some 0 those he h had hidden away Sammy flew v over oer to a certain post poston poston on the top of ot which he had hidden on a 0 peanut lIe He looked ed this way and that Wo Wa way to sure suro that no ono one wa was I watchIng him Then with nith Ith his hi bill h I poked around round In n the on snow enow ow on tho top of that post lie He H found nothing there lOt Ho He became excited Ho made mad thu fly Still tili no peanut Sammy I pau cd long lone enough to look at tho the other po potts ports ts along alone that ten fence e to make mak sure sur that tha this was nas as the th right one I was no doubt about it thIs was vans the th post where here ho he h had bad hidden 1 peanut ut That peanut t thel e Sammy won waa puzzled ITo H was puzzled and he be h was nas angry lie Ile II wanted to n j I Then with his Ills bill but lie he poked around In time the lie snow on tho top of that O post t ti i But Sammy didn't scream He H kept his tongue quiet and silently flew over to an apple tree treo tre In a crotch of which he h had put two or three poa pea pea- peanuts nuts They wore acre ore not thel e Sammy Sommy stIll lUll more excited Ho H hut hut- hur tIed to another place bere he be h had bad hIdden a peanut nut This ono one he be h found Ito Ho promptly ate It Then he be went vent ventI I to look for more I Thom 1 om on one hIding hIding- place to another Sammy Jay flew flea Sometimes ho found a peanut whore here he had hidden It Store More often orten he h didn't find It He lIe knew then that some somo one had found his hIding places and helped l himself I It Is Hippy H Jac Jack or that mean little cou couSin coutin ln of oC his lila Chatterer tho Red Sammy Jay and his hl eyes snapped with Ith anger I l know it It I now Know it Ill I'll Ithem them out of ot the th Old Orchard Yes sIr that thata s a what Ill I'll do Ill Ili drle e a them out of the old Orchard They I are oro thieves That I It n what hat they are thieves Sammy Semmy S didn't stop to think I how often otten ho he himself had token taken things ho lie h had d found In Just this same I way 1928 1923 Ly by T W tV Burgess Burrest I I The next nett story tory The ne of i Rage Rago r I I |