Show I S IUS hAS S A VIS 1 W C Diplomacy will win will tho the day When WIlen other methods wouldn't pa pay While foot the tho the reo cc- re remained undisturbed tn in hii his new lIew borne bomo for time llo had hall quite the tho loss 1019 1 or of Ills old home which he Ir had left through fear Cear of Shadow the Weasel This new lIew homo home had everything that a a com coat comfortable table foi-table mouse home should hove have There was plenty of room that old stump for Cor nil the exercise u ho needed lie llo had Iad no to go so outside You 1011 see lIet ec as I have already told you ou lio Jle found an all ample store of oC opine pine seeds lites in III there They vero ero I very ery sweet and nice felt relt that it was vas quite nil ill nh right to take th them for ho lie by uy their condition lint t they hOod had been hero for a long lone time lime Evidently sonic some had forgotten them or else had not had need ot of thorn them Of Ot course White tool did not stay slay shut up In that old stump It wouldn't I be le e liko him bun to do that thing Timid as ho he Is III 1 Is 18 very ery active and dearly loves lovel to play about Ito IIo likes liles the lie snow and ond every overy pleasant night found him out and nb about ut Sometimes he was sas out during the day It was always n a chance he took but ho used to ex- ex cx cuso himself by saying I ought to lo get my lIvIng day ay by day It if I 1 Ican Ican can and keep those supplies In the tho theold old stump slump for tor bad weal weather her when I cannot get about Yes sir that thatIs thatis Is ii what I ought to do Now this sounds like good corn com common cornmon com common mon sense It would have o been good common sense had bad it not leen that the supplies In that store store- storehouse house were vero great enough to last the tho rest of ot tho the Inter However most of ot us like a change or of fare tare once in a while so perhaps was excusable tor for run run- running running run ning the risk he ho always did run whenever lie he went hunting for food Ono One afternoon when returned from one of ot these trips he discovered a visitor It was Chat Chat- Chatterer Chatterer terr the Hed Squirrel Chatter Chatter- Chatterer el ci er was sitting on top of that stump t saw Chatterer before Chatterer saw aw him lIe II hid bid lie bid he could peck out and watch Chatterer Chatterer wasn't welcome at all In Di fact White White- foot Coot was a II little Illie afraid of ot Chat Chat- Chat torr By and by Chatterer leaped over to a tree and scampered up lover to the thc top W gave O a 0 n Il lit lit- littie tie sigh of at relief Th Then watching Illo 11 I 4 I J Pt I t lie hl hII l line lie he peck out antI nd watch Chatterer his Ills chance h hi hu slipped Into Inlo bb hi home I 1 ant 1101 so glad Chatterer didn't conic come inside muttered U lie mIght have lIao wanted thoo seeds It wasn't two 1 minutes later when hen Chatterer sharp harp face Cace suddenly ap peana In thu passageway Ho lie saw the very instant n lant that saw IlaW him liim An n angry gleam gloam como come cam Into Chatterers Chatterer's eye eyes What aro are you OU doing hero he snap snapped pod I 1 am ant living JI-Ing here hert replied No 10 So one else ellO was WI Ih liv- liv till lug hero bero and so I moved here hero when I had hod to leave lav my old home be causo be-causo cause couso ot of Shado Shadow the th Wea Veo Weasel el Well now you ou can move right rl out again fain said ah r In tb this thru ugliest licit way wa J I 1 suppose e YOU thought all ull those thoo I seeds grew here Xo No replied In a squeaky little voice no I didn't think that Chatterer r I knew some some- somebody I body must mut have hav gathered them th m on one ant stored them hem but I also knew that they thoy had been hero bero her a vry vory ory long lone time-so time time M long that I 1 thought they the I were forgotten by whoever r stored them Those iseda f 1 are mine snapped i I Chatterer I stored thorn them ci In here litre L La a 1 year e r ao ngo So Bo tho the sooner you 1110 htoo the Iho better tor fot you OU t I dont donl propose to o lu anyone else citro liv- liv livIng Ing on oil my ny hard work orl Copyright 1021 T W S Burgess Burress S The he next stor storys Is Driven Out |