Show ies CHATTERER JUMPS FOR lIlt LIFE By Dr w BURGES Id I'd rather often orten Jump for naught TItan Than fail to Jump once when I 1 ought Chatterer Chatterer the Red Bed Squirrel Chatterer the Red Squirrel had left lert tho the Green Forest for tor or a a visit up In the Old Orchard Chatterer Is quite a roamer He lIe likes to tray tray- ci about and find out all that Is going on There Isn't Isn't one ot of the tooted four footed folk who knows knos as much muth about other peoples people's bu bulnes as Chatterer the Red Squirrel There arc others who would would-like to a arc know k an as much about their neigh bor bore bors but they cannot You see sec Chatterer is 18 so 10 small and so eo spry and such a good rood climber that he get tet into places where can other peo i cant can't- So this particular morn morn inc morn morn- morning Ing Chatterer had gone one up to the theOld theOld theOld Old Orchard to see what he h could er discos It Jt had popped Into Ch Chatterers Chatterer's head that certain of or the th loll foil like Tommy Tilt Titi and Chicka Chicka- Chickadee Chickadee dee and Yank Yank the Nuthatch might be some of ot those houses house In the Old Orchard to seep In nights It was no business of ot of his hit if they did No sir tir tr It nas tas no of ot his Cut But Chatt nr In- In Intend In Intended tend tended d to make it nil hi business It If Ithe Ithe he be found that they were sleepIng there It was some time since he had had any fresh meat and he wasn't above catching one ot feathered neighbors If It ho he had a chance lIe H might have the chance If he found that one ot or them was wa sleeping In one of or those houses So Chatterer planned to visit Very every tree in that Old Orchard There were some which had Holes boles tn in them and these holes might be occupied pled d Anyway It II was wae worth worthwhile while finding out what Illat was on In the th Old Orchard Of Ot c coUrse when he h could do so be ho jumped across from one on tree treo to another treathe When the distance was too great he be ran across the the th n nat t tree All the th time he kept his bright eyes open and on the watch for Black Dlack Pussy Pus y or any other ene- ene enemies enemies ene enemies mies that might be b about ThEr were ere not many to watch for tor this time of ot year So Chatterer felt quite safe Mocker the th Mocking Bird saw Chatterer when he first entered the theOd theOld Old Od Orchard lIe H watched the lit lit- little littIe lit little tle tIe red coated scamp ecamp At the same samo timo he himself kept out of ot sight eight Ho He didn't want Chatterer to see him Nor Noff No what hat Is Chatterer about sal said l Mocker ocker to himself as ashe ashe ashe he saw aw Chatterer gO co Into one hole holf after aUer another and Into one bIrd bIrdhouse birdhouse birdhouse house utter after another I wonder If he is ts thinking of ot moving over here hereto hereto hereto to the th Old Orchard I wonder r It if It Itcan Itcan Itcan can be that hels bela r for tor a new home That wont won't do at all We W dont don't want him in the th Old Orchard It wouldn't be safe saCe to have hav him about It If that Is what whit he Is up to toI I shall have to see se what I can do doto doto doto to discourage him He H ought to bE given such euch uch a fright that he i will scamper back to th the Green Forest wh where ro he h belongs Ill I'll have to see what I can do about it It Let me think let me ins in think how I can Chatterer a real reat scare icar Ha lIa I have han haveit haveit It Mocker walt waited d Chatterer had disappeared In tn a a certain little house which Winsome had haJ used the tb year ear before and and nl In which Mch It tt happened that Yank Tank Yank I the Nuthatch l had iad spent hi his nights m- m r rr 1 I L Lj j jV V v 1 the Mocking Bird saw Chatterer r hen lie lac first entered the lie Old Orchard all winter At once Mocker flew ov r and alighted Just above and tack back of o that little house Then ito he d Presently Chatterer cam came out out It lIe He jumped over overt to td a nearby branch and sat up Before Betor Ite he h had hada hada a chance to look around there was wasa wasa a scream Chatterer didn't stop to look or think lie He H mad math made a a leap to t the he next tree an and 1 dod around the trunk As he did so that scream rang ran In Ms his ears agaIn It was 1311 the scream am o of Red tall the Hawk Chatterer knew It It It po pop into his head it tt wa was not yet d time tima for to have hav returned from rom the llie South My exclaimed to himself that was a narrow s s- s cape s-cape cape Meanwhile Mocker ocker the Bird flew away way unseen CopyrIght 1 1126 19 6 T 1 W r W Burgess The next y story Reddy FI l Finds Nothing |