Show I cT T rs 11 B Thornton The Th wise vIse and canny look ahead And so disaster seldom dread Jerry Jerry Muskrat There was as as no doubt about It the time had Iad come to move The Theater Theater ater WAS as aheady up around Jer- Jer Jerry Jerry Jer Jerry ry Muskrat rat s ankles ankle In his bed bed- bedroom bedroom bed bedroom room ft ell eli said Jer Jerry to him him- himself himself himself self I gu guess ss I Iv ye ve got cot to go This water ateI ater may mot not List long lone in inhere inhere inhere here but It will III be pretty damp tOI foi a while whilo Im I'm glad l 1 ve ye got that snug room high up in the bank If It I hadn't I would have nowhere to goS go'S so go He di died ed down through the tun- tun tunI tunnel tun tunnel I nd nel leading from his hi bedroom to toI the bollom ot of the Smiling Pool He s swam sam am out and up until his I head was above Then he hestal h I stal tilted ted for lor what he lie called his castle In iii the bank M My ex- ex exclaimed ex exclaimed claimed Jury Jerry Muskrat it It is all allI allcan allI I can do to B against this Now No Jerry Is i a good He Is a II aery ery ery good swimmer s But though he swam mani with all his ItI it I was as slow work ork getting over over to the bank The Tho water las as rushing do don down n through the Smil tag inc Pool so S swiftly that it was as as aU all Jerr could do to moo mme ahead against It At last ho he got out ot of the tho swift current and s became easier easter When he h was right opposite the entrance to his castle In the tir bank ho dl diew ew a long breath alli dh ed and siam Sam S am to the entrance which was sas as under ateI He wa as surprised to find tind how tal fai UI up In hi the tunnel that water ater Wa W But at last he ho came out of ot the water ateI and scrambled up the long tunnel to the snug nue room he had prepared quite a distance back and just under the grass grasa roots on the Green Meadows s onI I Phew Phew exclaimed Jerry That was a hard trip But now Im I'm here I ha base ha e nothing to worry about I will live here he-e until the water atu goes down n and my hoube dries out I don dont t like these tirs spring food No o SIr ir I dont don't like these thes spring prins floods I Im m in always alway glad shen hen spring princ comes cornea but I do hate these Hoods Theres There's one on thing about It and that Is they do not list cry sery Iry long lone Truly It 11 seemed that Jerry had lied no CAuse to worry about anythIng Ills His castle castio In tile tao bank was wa a snug room far tar back and as I have hav I said aid before just under the th grass grassroots roots From It a tunnel led down and branched Into several short tunnels each with nith Ith an opening un- un under un under der water later ater This was to gl gho him more than on way ot of escape should he h find an enemy In there Then rhen there ther was a ory ery ery private back entrance fr from m the Green GreenMeadows Meadows Jerry had ci digging that castle casti in the th bank He lie even had borne kom food cd thereSo there thereSo I So 1110 Ing wasn't really r lly BO so bad after all Ho lIe could be Just as table here In the th bank as ashe ashe ashe he had been In his hi out In Inthe inthe Inthe the Smiling Pool Still he h did e to lea c lea e that house and lie e lias as aa worried for tor tear fear the water might wash ash It H away ay He had worked so hard building that hou houie e that he couldn't bear to think ot of o losing It Jerry first care carefully tully looked and all about in his tunnels and his bedroom to make sure that no cr anger had been ben there ther unknown to him There Ther wasn't II ii trace of ot anybody There Thero was no odor ot of o another Muskrat or ot of i 1 Mfr I el Jerr Jerry Thit was si-as a n bard liard trip Bill BilI Billy Mink Satisfied ot of this Jel- Jel ry Jel-ry ry 17 opened his back door and elt out onto the Green Meadows s lIe the th soft sott warm air It It Is going colne to be b warmer thin th ever said he That That will mean I that the th snow will III melt faster than Ihan er eier Incio certainly is go- go co Ing ins going coins to be a big bic flood this sear ear I gO-I Veil eU I har hae nothing to orn about o cr here and floods dont don't last long lone There Is nothing like hin ha log Ing t two 0 homes Copyright COP right 1324 1924 by T IV V Bur Bur Bur- Burges Bur ge The next net story staT A Watery arid |