Show TIlE THE LiTTLE HAPPy J JCK CK WE P V I loll IOn On HIS illS Sh B n Thornton Burgess For ou II 11 haM hase e to pay Tomorrow It ou dont don't toda toSa Old Old Mother Nairn The oollah little Happy Ja Jack k who had managed to jump his 1 0 own on n hon home hom tree tret over to a branch of branc-of spirIts spirIt ot of another tre tree wm as ea In high spir- spir It Its He had had a bad had fright h when ho so o nearly tell fell but this ho h soon soun forgot Here was as aa a tree treo he h haJ hai cr ne r been In a 11 tree tre to explore all by himself Ho felt eit aa as If It he ho real real- really really real really ly were out In th the Great World He lie explored e esery e ery e y branch ot of that thit tree tn i-tn H e had one on disappointment there thero ae aaa a no hollow In that tree Because the tho th only tree treo ho he h knew was his own home tree and that tha had a snug hollow In the th trunk he h had supposed that all tilt trees hat hail snug hollows hollow In tho the trunks trunk trunks But this tree hadn't e ell a 0 hatI I In it ThIs Thin M sas as dIsappoInting You see Se eo that foolish Happy lappy Jack had ht thought It would bo be great creat run fun to pretend to hen hn base e a n home horn of his own 0 ownBy I By and by he grew rew tired Ho He grew tired and anti sleepy Ho Ito thought lot of going back home but heI he wasn't quit QuIte ready to yet So he h I curled up In a 0 a crotch and went to tn I sleep It nas as as late lato In tho the after after- afternOOn afternoon noon atler-noon nOOn h hen n he h awoke At fIrst tint he h couldn t think where here here he was Ito Ho couldn t remember basing ha up before to find tind himself lonc HoI It t I him a queer feeling rather a frightened feeling lie H hastily scrambled to hl his feet H He would I home at He Ho scrambled out along the tho branch w which reached oer 0 er nearest to his hi own homo home horn tree ItI It I was as the th branch to which ho h had jumped when he h came cam over to that trie h hen hn n he h got cot out near the tho th tip Up ot of that branch ho made a disCover dIscover It t a 0 pleasant cry In 11 tact fact It tt quite upset him That branch vas nas a 0 bit below t le te branch of his hi home horn tree treo tre from he he- had Jumped When hen he h had jumped over ho had jumped lump ha dOwn n To get back he h would hale hae to jump up He couldn t matte malte that jump Ho He knew It H lie didn t dare even try It foolish Oh Oli dear dean I whimpered the th fool fool fool- ish little Happy Jack Oh dea dea- dea What dea What hat shall I do noHo no now no Ho However Hoever ever I get back there 7 He looked around him anxious anxious- I anxiously ly ly Some ot of the tho th est earliest of ot tho th thc Blach c Shadows Shadow ero i ore beg bc to t rt j 1 fb i s q Again Acain bo lie dodged around tho the trunk creep crep Into tho the Green Oreen Forest Forert They gaO ga him hint little chills of tear fear lie looked down to the th ground What I 10 a long lone way down It wasi wast A taU fall from height might kill him I I No ho he h couldn't jump back to his own homo home hom tree tro Then his hit common sense a ol ott Why all I v so got tot to do is to run the tho th trunk of this thi tree treo tre scans scam per icam-per per scamper across acro the th ground to the th trunk of my own home horn tree tr o and climb I up thought h he With this thought 1 ho turned to scamper back along that branch Just Ju t 08 a ho he h the trunk he heard a n sharp l IO nl h i Ing sound found Without really kno kno- knon inC Ing what lie ho h was doIng ho he dodged around the th trunk clinging fast fait to tott tt It lie Ho H was just In time lime tim A great bird to tn t biggest bird he h had ever I seen cen ept 8 ept o er hero ho he h had been only a 0 second before That swish swish- swishIng swishIng Inc Ing sound had hod been made mado by the great broad wIngs wing of ot this thle thi bird Such clan e claris a as aa h he had bath hadl The lh too foo- foo tab leh oung Happy lappy Jack hadn't I dreamed that there ther could be such euch great clais cla 8 any here In the Great I World orld But he didn t havo have time to thInk about them Already that I great bird was coming back an and those e treat great claws claw were reachIng tot tOL him hint Again he h dodged aroun arouni 1 the trunk th the most frightened tl lit lit-I lit tie Happy Jack In all th the Great World 1924 1 24 by T W Burgess Burgees The rho next The The of |