Show Tg Tiie e e I 11 H 10 1 A AAIlI I I rn ii FIt I I B D Thornton Vs I ID GIso Ghe not way stay to grim erin despair 1 or ho lie Is lost ot st ho ho doesn docan t care cari Jerry Jerry Muskrat I It IL la Is true tru t that there ther ere Is 1 such a 0 athing thing as too much of I a a good I thing Yes Yea silt lr it Is true Jerry Muskrat was sas fInding n It out ut utAI C g I I 1 loves lovea the water staten e AI All his ln life he had spent the greater pon of his time Limo In the water sater You now he ho built his house In the Smiling Pool But Dut now nosy Jerry was I 1 finding out that there can be too much m 0 1 g gloat oat flood lood had bad co erd tt-e tt th Green Meadows It us os a If It the si hole hole Great Groat I World orld had hod turned to water sater Jury Jerry had flast list been bem driven from front his hl house In th Smiling Pool 1001 Then rhen Thenh I he had been driven from mom hI his castle colle In III the th Bolh Both were wr now water liter and JOI ry was ts t's I I I I lie sit at hunched up on an nn old log that tas floating O mci hat had bad once been blen the til GI ceo lead own Mead 0 a Every moment he bo grew ir snore more n more lonesome and more afraid Look Jool where here ho lie would ho he heI could sea aee e nothing ir The very sery cry trees standing In the th water sere ere unfamiliar because they n no longer seemed to bo ho growing out of the tho ground Only once In bin life lied bad lie he been A II i fir hr from his homo home he b had hail had of safe In to 10 hide hideI hid from enemies Now No Noall all those tho hid hid- hiding Ing were v ere er co co ered with Wa- Wa wa water ter ler nn l he new knew not where wh re 19 to Igo CO COSo So lie t I go eo e lIe lIeI just t remained hunched ui up on that thi old log loir and und ond red whit hot happen next lie He dill t like 1110 heinli sight out In plum sight eight as ae a h lie stas sic lie gew lew mOle mor and anxious el e ve minute Should one oue of o hi hia of ot the th HI Hawk k family corns come along he h would almost llmott surely be b seen M 1 lie gren gre more amI ml more er e Cs C minute Im I'm afraid sobbed Jerry This Is I I dont don t ant v antto I to stay slay ty here but IhN e 0 I la Is no nohN hN hei e 0 eto to go co I 1 am hungry but there thor Is iii 1 nothing to 10 eat et at I 1 never os iv lonesome In m my life before but butI butI I Om in slow now lie H looked bolted longingly whore In Inthe inthe I the he ho could see c dry land Hut But It was such uch a 0 long e I 1 0 away way that J Jerry rry hadn t the cour- cour ago oc to try to swim wim to IL It Good I swimmer that lie he h Is In ho he was wax afraid I to try It i iFor For a long lone long Ions time nothIng I I happened Then happening to I look up ho he h sow saw aw a R broad brand winged bird high In the air bovo him him I Ith w Ith a j squeak uc k of Jerr plunged into Inlo the tho water stater lie He II SWAmI SWAm I urd r water Just JUHt Ju L ail no long lonc an he COli could hold lila hla hl breath hen li n at atla last t ho he had hod to put hi lila lid head out for flesh all nh the thing thine he lie did to look around iii 1 tho ho tk Hull huh lie li muttered e That wa only plunger r lIsa Fish Ha lax I-lax k 1 t ha have hate 0 bel been of aid of o him J 7 SueH vas 09 so o I that hOt hIt J I didn't r recognise hIm I suppose I lan an n go o bask ba k to that old lo log but somehow I don t ss want ant to There s sa a tree Ire just juet ju t ahead ot of me I 11 II tr that So J Jerry rry swain s straight for tor that lIe tice hell ti hezi be lIe got rot to It ho lio found t lh a lot of or rubbish had hd caught In a 1 crotch of o It and nd made t i little platform thu e Ho Ito climbed up on Then he sat ther thele fo for a II hong time ao a forlorn and lonesome and as ever eser And nd all nil the time ho be h grew and hun hun hun- I It got fol so that at last h In felt as aa a If It he dido didn t much hat became of him right 1924 1921 T W I Burgess Burges The fhe next stor The rhe Til Unfair I Hunters 00 00 |