Show m U- U US S S l a HAS S A BUSY By fly Thornton V V Burs Burs- The unimportant thing thine to mo moTo moTo moTo To you a vital thIn thins thing may mOlY be bEl Trader Trader tho the Wood Rat R t Trader the Wood Rat Rot nas as find find Ing Ing the th great man man bird the tho most interesting thing thine he h had bad evor vl- vl vIsIted vla-lt vla d The Tho men who worked on It by dR day were repairing It They had taken off the th broken brokon wing and they th y hail had taken apart some I other pert parta o of the great machIne Ono One night Trader ered ered In InI Inand inand Inand and around the rat great man bird man I many queer hard things were wholly new to him He H knew they were hard bard and not good food to eat cat because ho he h tried them with his teeth Some Somo nero ero bright ht and shin and und some somo wore were not But all were i- i iry Iry ery ry Trad Tra Traders 1 er ers s a big hie dark e C ci es ea sparkled as he looked 1 at them then them He lIe would take them homo to play with Now iNow thIng i cre ts n cro nuts nut nut and ahers and screws and other small parts to bo be used In repair repair- repairing Ing that airplane ne Because that isas As such a II lonel lonely spot and there was no one onEl likely to meddle meddio with things all the small parts had been left lying about when the men I stopped work at the tho end of or the dav dat ome ere Tier In small boxes box which had been left open Some Som were wre In the airplane Tr der Tr d r picked out the shin shin- shinIest shiniest iest lest pieces These Theae were the th new parts paris that had been brought Ono One by one he h carried them over to his home All night tong lonn ho work work- worked worked ed cd They y were Ivero bright shiny sane B and nd they delighted Trail Trad Trader ci er B R heart But Trader Trailer i Is not a thief like Robber the Brown nat flat natHe flatlIe RatH lIe He emptied that little box ot of screws screW but In their place he put puta a lot of pebbles He Se we w a trading H Ha was WItS trading pebbles for fOT screws Back and forth back hack and forth between his home horn and the th geat bird man bird Trader Trailer elrd gAl 11 night nIghtlong long He Hs not only emptied that little box of screws wB but he emp emp- emp emptied tied another sma small 1 bo box boc of nuts and lInd wa hers rs-hers hers This box he ho also filled with pebble It was a busy night for tor Trader It was waa a very vry busy night With the tho coming of d Trader remained at home horn You know ho he h doesn't like to be abroad In da dalIght daill light ht In his home lie he h gloat gloat- gloated ea ed 01 0 oer er his hl new treasures treasur s lie He H kept handling thorn them and Ith V Ith them When at last he curl curl- curled curled ed d up to sleep he dreamed o of these treasures and of other treasures ct to be bo obtained What WInt he didn't dreim o was the tho trouble ho he had hail cau cd At At tir t Traders Trader's big dark des e ti arkle a aa as he looked nt at them those thos screws crews were not missed Then ono one of the tho th men at work on the great man bird needed some somo ot of those serene screws cre sand and went to get them Such guch a funny tunny look as a passed 0 o er his face tace foe when ha ho picked d up that little box What kind of a joke joks Is this he demanded The a 10 tor the friend ot of Da Dan Dan- Dan ny n ny fly and Nanny Nonny Meadow Mouse who WItS vas at nt wok work on another pirt put o of the airplane looked up I I 1 don den t know any joke loke said he Then Then why Is thi this box boc filled with pebbles Instead of o demanded the th other man Just the thep then another o of the th w rk wyk-m wyk men n wanted a nut and In hi his hia turn he foun found nothing hut but pebbles lie He couldn t 10 TO o on with his part vart of ot the work without a nut dut and no nut w wa to bo be found ory E one stopped working and began begon to hunt bunt for tor those screws crews and nut nuts and of ot course courso they hunt hunted ed In vain What had become of them was OR a n mystery They had been there ther the tha th day before belore and now the they were gone rone COP right 1924 1 24 by T W Bur Bur- Burgess Bur e gess s The not next stor story Tho rho |