Show M itell CIL LOSES HIS VOICE I B- B By Dr THORNT w BURGESS DURGESS i Some folks I know I wl wish h no Ill But gladly would their voices Old Old Moth Mother r Nature Chatterer the Red ned Squirrel likes cold weather He Is la naturally frisky and nd cold weather makes him more frisky He doe doesn't nt have to lo worry about aboul his food rood use because e he hu has several storehouses well filled It If he cannot find Ind food tood elsewhere he can always ays let get el It from one lot of these storehouses No Now when people feel rood all allover allover allover over they are very likely to lo want to lo make a B noise Chatterer Is like that He Is very fond of ot the sound lound of at his own voice anyway I dont donl know anyone any one who likes the sound of at his own voice any better un un- un less lees It Il Is Sammy Jay Between sound them Chatterer Chatterer the Red Red 1 and Sammy Jay can make more moe noise than all the other othel little peo- peo peo people pIe In the Green Creen Forest This morning C Chatterer was as risking frisking about aboul and chattering as ar only he un can can can- With every word he Jerked that thal little red tall lall of ot his It II was a a wonder r he didn't jerk it Il out by the roots t l But Dul he didn't And the Green with the sound of at his voice olce Chatterer didn't I have to lo worry Terror the Gos GaS Goshawk hawk hadn't been about aboul for so long that thal Chatterer had forgotten that thal he even existed no one n else In the Hawk family about aboul at this time lime of ot the year yur So Chatter Chatter- Chatterer alj er felt fell tree free to lo make as much nOI C Cas as he pleased He had Prickly Porky In a s poplar tree and andI I he was h haing ha Inc tig great greal fun calling I Prickly Porky Perky names and making fun of him Prickly Porky dl Ill I'll pay any attention to lo him whatever lie He just went on about aboul his bu business was tilling filling hi his stomach with lIh poplar bark The fact tact that he wouldn't pay any attention to Chat Chat- Chatterer Chatterer lerer made nude Chatterer provoked You know there Is la nothing In the world so 10 provoking as aJI a to try to lo attract al- al at attention and tall fall So Chatterer scolded harder than ever II Then something Queer happened Chatterer lo lost l his voice Yes les air he lo lost l his voice He lost It with his hi mouth wide open He was Ju just justin justIn l lIn In the middle of at o saying something most unpleasant And had you been lIeen looking at al him when he lost louthis his voice you would have thought his eyes were were going coins to jump right out of his head You would aol so o Chatterer didn't move If It h he had been frozen stiff he co have ve been more motionless You have no Idea how quiet It il seemed after all the nol noise e he lie had been making E Cn E en Prickly Porky no- no noticed no noticed It and turned his head to look at al Chatterer Chatterer was star star- staring Ine Ing down below There wis wi fright hl hlIn In those e popping eyes eyel eyes of his hili Prick Prickly ly Iy Porky's too dull for him to lo see tar far or much He lie turned back to his hll eating Already he had hadI I censed ceased to wonder what ailed Chat Chatterer lerer still Still did Chatterer did not move He did not nol blink an eyelash h nor I he make the smallest sound Be- Be Below Below Be Below low looking looking- UI up at al him WAS a 0 small person all In white He lie was smaller than Chatt Chatterer T Tie The e tip Up of at hl his tall tail was black and l jt as as thal tat I moving tip Up that had caught ht Chat l lerer's lerer eyes Had It Il not nol been for or I ha black I Is 0 I is atS 0 v th lb V Vs u I Chatterer woul would 1 not nol have lave seen en that small person at al all Of Ot course e you yuU know who'll who It was WU It was 1 Sha Shadow V o the Weasel eael When Mother Iother gave Shadow that thal white coat coat coat but butlett left lett the tip ot of his tall tail black she must have had In mind the oth other r little people who have reason to tso ao toI I greatly really fear Shadow Shado sat sat lIll UI ui up arid and gl glared r d ak at a Chatterer Then he bounded over ever to the foot fool of at othe the tree and to climb and not nol until then did Chatterer move With a smothered little ItUle cry ery he raced out lo the to-the the tip of ef the branch on which he lie was WaR sitting and jumped Jumpe 1 It was a a long lone Jump a desperate jump but bul It Il succeeded Chatterer landed landd on one of tb the lower branches branche of at another tree and raced up that l and jumped fr m that thal tree to hl his tongue wa was still Tes Tee Indeed his hll tongue lOngue was still Not Nol for th the the world would he have made a sound Copyright 1926 Hit by T W Bur gus gesa The next story One Olie One In 10 White Whit One la i BUck Black ci Prickly Porky didn't pay any atten- atten attention tion to him whatever |