Show I I I I I II 11 J ICKS ICK'S KI By ny Thornton t IV Burgess heedless babies romp and ni play playA A mother mOl her worries v all alt the he da daIrs Irs Mrs Haw Hap Jack It just happened that Bro Bronna Bron n s Boy was sas as the one who sa sa Mis s Happy Jack Squirrel mo moe e he her four our babies from the tho big bl maple tee tic near rammer Farmer r Browni house tr o 0 er to a hollow hollon in a a car car- certain certain tain tam II tiec ee In the GI een Forest But Bu the next mornIng Samm Jay disco db- db th the broken hollow branch lying on the ground at the toot foot ot oh the big bif maple tree tree together with otI I the nest of Happy Jack cl which had been In It I Sammy's e es opened ery cry Id ido At first he h said ald nothing He H peer peer- peered peered peered ed down don do do n sharply at that fallen rallen nest he h flew lew down n and exam exam- examIned exam examined ined med It Of 0 course courBe court he h found It empty Sammy flew lew away ay In great grent excitement to spread the neVo nea s that Happy Jack s home had bee bee i destro ed cd and that the Squirrel I amil had disappeared But he I II I had told it to only two or three I when hen he spied Happy Jack J ck along the th old stone wall naIl all quite quit asif us as It if 1 nothing had happened HI Happy Jack V ft here is Mrs Mr Happy Jack 0 cried Samm Sammy Taking care o of her children a as asa asa a good rood mother should replied Happy Jack promptly I here here demanded Sammy Samm That Th it Isn t for or me to tell hell reo re retorted I totted Hippy Jack hIs hia black eyes I snapping v with mIschief I Was as anyone any one hUI huit t shen hen your yourl I home fell tell to the ground 7 inquired I Sammy No Xo No oneas one as was Oven even scratched said Happy 1 Jack and hi his ens eC's tv mor more than over ever evers M s exclaimed Sammy Jay I don dont t see tec howIt howl tt It wag as as possible poi that no one was hurt In such a fall as that There Thero was sos as nothing wonderful wasI I about It retorted Happy Jack Why hy wasn't there 7 Inquired Jay sharply for tor or he didn't like being contradicted Because no ono one fell Cell replied I Happy Jack Mrs Mrs rs Happy Happ Jack and our four tour babies were safe c In InI I S 1 I l HI Happy Happ Jack Jackl I Where h 19 i iIi Jack t cried our new homo home when that broke oft off Of course this was sas v as news to Sammy Sam Sammy Sammy my Jay and right away aIlY a IlY he ho wante ante to know shera that new nes nehome home horn ia a Of course courE Happy Jack toll toil him and nd of ot course court Samm Sammy Ja ia Jalo I lot lost t his temper Happy Jack ju Jus laughed and scampered awa wai Then Sammy Jay started out to find Out what had become becom ot of Mrs Mr Happy Jack and her babies It didn t taku him himer ier er eri long lone to er her shere the new horn home was and out or of spite h he passed th the word around But Happy Jack and Mrs Irs Jack had not expected to keep thou thell home a secret very long and so the thc didn't worry orry about the th mat milt matter matter ter They knew that Sammy Samm t tell Shadow hadow the tho Weasel and nd Shadow IlS wa the only one sho ho could get at those babies as longas longas long as they remained In their new home I ome But babies will grow groi Babies ot of the little people of the Green Greenl l rest grow i ery ery fast Tho e Squirrel babies grew crew and It was not long a 0 they became i el ci y oUI eu curious about the th Great World on- on onside I sIde id their home Vh never moth or er left lett them alone they would take turns In climbing up to peep out of oC the In round eyed won at all they saw W Then one day the mot most venturesome on one craw out HI His mother returned In time line timeto to tend bend him back In a Il hurry toro bi-toro b fore anything could happen to him Then she h sighed She Sh knew w th thit lt for awhile her days day would be J with worry orry The Th kindergarten da dan dai were iere ere at hand when those little must be b taught the tho things they should know abut the Great World and an t th the dangers In It it- it Copyright l 1924 24 by b T W Durgess The stor First Loison- Loison no 00 |