| Show TIlE THE WORST S TO H D l D ESS Ute ISS ler comes when hell least expect expect- expected expected ed And danger lurks where here here not sus- sus suspected sus peeled Mrs Grouse While Thun the ho Grouse andl Mrs Ire Grouse slept comfortably and peace fUll under the snow In the tho Green Forest thinGs thinG's of or which theY the knew know nothing were ere era happening It kept on snowing for or some como time att aft aft- er cr they had plunged Into that snow snow- hank The falling snow now very near near- nearly ly Iy filled the holes the luaU had made when hen the they plunged Into that thit snow snow- snowbank snowbank bank banI That would have pleased had he it Il But after a while hilI the failing snow turned to rain Of 0 course i and Mr Grome Groue kne nothing about this Had they I known It they would have beon worried But not knowing It the r slept peacefully and I To ard morning the lain stopped Then Jack Frost came and he froze that wet Oct snow sno He lie frOs froe It until It had Ial h ad formed a thick hard ItI I crust all through through the Green For For- Forest Forest est eat and 0 over oer er tho the Green hien jolly round bright Mr Sun bun began hegan his hia dally daily climb up In the blue lue sky he looked do doo down n on onI ona ona I Ia I a a world orld of glistening white hita I Mis Ills Grouse Groue wa a the he first ID 10 oaken alien in the morning For lor awhile she was content to stay where hero she was for or it Mao as very there But Dut presently she begin to ant ant her breakfast ow ow when and arid Mrs l Grouse leave their beds under the enow anos they burst out suddenly and whirr hirr up Into the tho tree trees on thoe stout Ings of theirs 1 hey burst out sudden sudden- suddenly suddenly suddenly ly so that If by any chance Red Hed y loc or any other othor enemy happen to be e clo e by they will be betaken betaken taken by surprise When hn hen Mrs Grouse wa wai ready to togo togo togo go In search of her breakfast Rho started with that same Bame upward ruoh ruih ag as usual But Dut she didn t burst out of the snow no and send It flying In all directions She c cime me up against something hard that l stopped slopped her ber Instantly she he knew hat had happened Once long long be before foro eho sho ho had been caught under th crust She Sho beat franti frantl frantically call cally with her stings Ings It did no good She struck at that crust II siltS Ith her stout bill but that oas as equally useless had heard her start and he had started at once The Tho |
