Show I I fur I CIL TONGUE GUI IS STILLED I B DY orno roN s-rox s w BURGESS s Bo Do ware waro you ou do not talk too much Trouble always wafts walla for such Mother West Wind l People who mako a noise Ill are bound to b bo be seen Slen Somebody Is surely surel going to hear and be curl curi curious Otis OilS and cone romo to lice ace cc what antime an 1 time the trouble Is about and an l what all the tho Iu I fus is about Chatterer the thc Red Squirrel ha had l forgotten You know he was In a tantrum You know a 1 tantrum means fly fly- flyIng fly flying ing Into a great rage There he sat on on n top of ot a certain old stump or rather danced on top lop of ot a certain old stump and shrieked all sorts of oC things because he be was wasso wasso so angry Now Chatterers Chatterer's voice can be beh h heard ard a long distance especially when It is still sUII in the Green For For- Forest Forest est More then than on one pair of ot cal cars heard that voice and stopped to listen Sammy Jay laughed and h headed ded straight lor for that old stump slump Ho Ito dearly love loves lo to St sei Chatterer in a II temper Blacky the Crow heard beard and he ton toJ started for tor that old stump There must be bo something Interesting there said Raid Blacky to himself Chatterer Is very much upset over something an and l it may h b borth hn n north orth knowing about So he too headed beaded toward the old slump stump tump But neither Sammy Jay nor Blacky ever ev r did get there ther To this day they dont don't know knol what it t was os all 11 about You see sec both arc too smart to let curiosity curlo Inter Inter- inter fero loter- loter fero Cere with their watchfulness s So It w was s that when Sammy Va was about halt nay there he suddenly caught ht his hia breath alighted In a thick hemlock tree an and 1 a mo- mo moment moment mo moment ment later turned and silently flew back twice as s fast as he had lad come como And it happened that a a mo- mo moment mo moment ment or two later Blacky the Crow did precisely the same thi that his cousin Sammy Jay hal haI haldone haldone done Both flew Clew In a hurry and both took the tho greatest care tomake t to tomake male make no sound whatever Yo Ton I Isee see both had lIld seen some one else ehe who had heard the noisy tongue of Chatterer the Red Squirrel and was then headed In ht that di direction dl- dl on That some one was I Terror the Goshawk that winged swift killer from the North Ho lie was hungry for Cor he had had no break breakfast Cast A squirrel breakfast would suit him himas himas himas as well as lIS anything anything- he Jle could think ot of So the Instant he heard Chatterers Chatterer's voice ho he headed In that direction He Ho knew that Chatterer was In a fit tit of oC anger ange He knew that he ho was having a tantrum tantrum and he ho knew too that when a a person Is cry ery busy be being be- be beIng being ing an angry ry ho he usually has little thought or attention for anything else It was 3 Just so Ith Chatterer It If it had been possible for Terror the Goshawk lt to grin he certainty certainlY would have grinned when he came In sight of ot Chatterer Chat Chat- Chatterer Chatterer was dancing about an and scolding and making a great us rum rum- rumpus rumpus pus Ho lie was so busy about it that he wasn't paying any attention to t an anything else Like LIle a gray Terror shot forward Ills His great curved sharp needle-sharp claws were ero set and ready to seize What warned Chatterer even hl he does not know Inow But at the tho very last Instant he broKe oft off his scold scold- scoldIng scolding Ing so short that it was vas just as asi asif i It if h he be had bitten oft off his own I tongue and at the very same instant he dodged over the tho Ide cd eo of oC tho the old stump With a s swish Terror shot past topped stopped him him- himself himself himself self with surprising suddenness turned and came camo back Chatter I r dodged around the trunk Two or three times lImes time Terror almost caught him but each time Chatterer suc suc- succeeded succeeded succeeded in dodging him At last he was close to the entrance darted in He lie was safe Terror didn't hans hang around 11 H Ito knew that that would be a waste ot of time into Like mo most t of ot those who hunt he is something of ot a philosopher Ill get him some other time said Terror to self J lm self and shot away to 1001 look for tor a breakfast el elsewhere As for tor Chatterer he didn't come out of ot that old stump again P I Se IiSe tc Ii NL ome One Due of ot lilt hloi III store hou houses cs had by some sonic one and broken Into until afternoon And when h he did corn come out h ho he was strangelY silent His tongue was stilled or once Copyright 1927 by T W Bur Bur Bur- Burgess gess The Th next story I Lives in Peace reace I |