| Show tor ie J I JOhNNY GETS INTO MISCHIEF By B Thornton W iv Burgess What's mischievous to you to me Quite Innocent may seem cem to be Johnny Johnny Chuck Johnny Chuck sit sat up In the crotch made by the lowest limb ot of the tho young youner apple tree It was wasa wasa a small tree Probably ho he wouldn't have thought of climb climb- ine log Ins that tree had it not been bElen that Chatterer the Red ned Squirrel had tease teased him until he lost his temper Now as he sat there his temper was still lost Isn't It funny how people talk about los los- losIng losing loa Ing a temper Really Heally they dont don't mean that at all No one wIth witha a lost temper has baa really lost It itIn In fact the temper Is very ery much In evidence It W was so with Johnny 11 He ground bi his teeth he growled he snarled up at Chat Chat- Chatterer Chatterer Chatterer who was WIlS clear at the top of the tree as far as ho he could get Johnny knew very well that h ha couldn't climb up there He lIo was too big ble He lIe couldn't hang on to those little le branches the way Chatterer did The knowledge that he couldn't get Ul up there made him mor snore more angry than eve ever Yes Yc sir 11 it did dl l so It made him so angry that he wasn't satisfied Ith just grinding his teeth H lie felt that he just must bite some sonIc something something thing Ho lie was biting angry that's what he was VAl Folks do get that way sometimes especially the tho lit lit- little littIe lit little tle tIe folks who wear fur Ho lIe felt that It if 1 ho he could sink his teeth Into something he ho would feel better Now there wasn't a thing for Johnny to bite but that young apple tree so he bit the young apple tree That Is what ho lie did he be bit the young apple tree lIe He just set his teeth right In and pulled off a big piece of bark He didn't care much for tor that bark although It wasn't bad tast- tast tasting tast tasting ing He lie reached around and tast-I tast bit again He lie was taking out his anger on that helpless young youns tree By fly the tho time timo ho he felt bet bet- bettar bet better I ter tar he had pulled oft off bark way a around that young tree and that meant that the young tree would dIe You Tou know that Is what Pet Pet- Peter Pet Peter J er or Rabbit lias has sometimes done and what Danny Meadow Mouse has sometimes done In winter Inter They have gnawed gna the bark all the way around a 0 young young- tree and the tre tree died When bark hark Is i taken oft off a young youns tree In this ay y It Is said to be girdled anda anda and a girdled tree dies So Johnny Johnny- Chuck Chuek had bad been In Inthe Inthe Inthe the very worst kInd hind of mischief although he be didn't know It It lIe didn't know that tree would die ProbablY he wouldn't have hao cared If he ho had known But he ho hadn't 1 I I J i sL l EI I JI 1 Uc lie just ju t 5 set t his teeth right In and off olf a II big piece of bark known It didn't enter his head bead that he had really hurt that tree treo He lie had done It more to BIlOW Chatterer what he be would do to him If It he could only catch him Chatterer continued to to the top of the tree and ke keep p his mouth Shut shut and his tongue still Johnny Chuck having taken I out on the poor young youns tree the 1 anger which Chatterer had bad so provokinglY aroused felt better belter lie He stopped growling Ho lIo stopped biting the tree He stopped grinding r his teeth lie looked up at Chatterer and grinned lie Ho saw that Chatterer was anythIng but comfortable This Is what made him bins grin Ho lIe decided that he would make himself as com corn comfortable comfortable as possible and keep Chatterer out there for tor a while So there h he sat and sat and sat and up above him Chatterer clung and clung clun- and clung They wire WHO both there when hen Farmer Browns Brown's Boy came along Johnny Chuck saw Baw Farmer Browns Brown's Boy coming H He ic waited alted until Farmer Brown Browns Brown's Boy was quite near then he ho jumped down and scampered for homo as fast as his short legs I gs could take him Tho The last that Farmer Brown Eo Boy saw of him was as R a pair of o black heels disappearing through that doorway As for Chatterer he ho Jumped too as Boon as Johnny Chuck Chuek had hd Jumped and away ho he went chat chat- chattering chat and scolding Now Kow what said Farmer Browns Brown's Boy to himself was Johnny Chuck doing up ip In one ono ot of my young apple tree trees Copyright 1926 1326 by T W Bur Bur- Burgess goat gess The next story Farmer Drowns Browns Boy Is Upset |
