| Show I I I HAS S ms Ills S I By fly Thornton W V Burgess I Suspicion Is a horrid timing thing And from It spring Mother Mother West Wind Never N er had Chatterer the Red Squirrel been store moro upset No sIr novel nevet had Chatterer been upset omo one had emptied one of Ills storehouses Not so mulch muchas U aS S a singia single nut WAS left leCt there Now Chatterer himself Is none too honest t But th then n honesty ong n the little people of the Gr Green OrCen en For For- ForIt Forest est Cat It anti and tho Green Meadows Is 18 11 a matter r from honesty among wo wa humans It If ono one of theeo little J people ollie finds something that some one OM has hidden to take It Isn't considered wrong So though Chatterer had bad hidden those nuts In that particular place and they really did belong to him himlie lie Jle knew that whoever bad had found them thena aud taken ken them away con cout- con considered that they were now his lie realty really didn't mind the loss of ol tho nuts at all nil for tor ho Ito had plenty It was waa just the Idea that some someone someone one had boOn been Smart enough to find his secret ret storehouse that i made Chatterer angry First ho he 0 cd Jack the tho Gray Squirrel and nd spied on them every Overy minute lit ho could lIe suspected Happy Y Jack and lie thought that It If he kept watch atch ot of Happy Jack he Ito le might find out where Happy Jack had taken those tints nuts But Happy Jack dIdn't lead Iud him to any to-any an such find find- findIng finding ing lag It Happy Jack knew that was avan being watched he lie dIdn't caro Whenever he chanced d to meet Chatterer lie he didn't act In Inthe Inthe Inthe the least guilty Maybe It wasn't Happy y JaCk Id Chatterer to himself Per PCr ha haps s it was WILlI that big red cousin cousino or of mine nIne Husty the tho Fox Squirrel I never did like that tell fellow OW I dont don't consider that ho he has any business over hero In the Green Greenl l Forest Neither anyway Happy Jack Jacl nor I asked him to com Come Ill I'll kee keep an eye eo on him a Mt bit Litand and see lice what ho ha i Is about TIme The Themore Themore more I think of ot It the tho more I Iam Iam ILm am Inclined to believe that It WILlI auas Rusty He lie cant can't do anything like that to me and get away with It II So Chatterer tagged along alon after artee Rusty nUlty ty the FOX Squirrel until the tho theother theother other got very cry angry What are rO you OU following me mo about for ho he demanded I want to know what t you dId wIth the tho nuts you stole from me retorted Chatterer I 1 didn't steal any aCy any huts nuts from you declared Rusty Well 1 you OU stole atole them from my storehouse and that's the tile Mme I thing retorted Chatterer No 1 00 such thing Do you ou mean to say I 1 am a thief cried Rust Rusty growing angrier and angrier I guess that's about It II re- re retorted re retorted Chatterer Then Rusty started after lifter Chat Chat- Chatterer Chatterer and drove him through the tho treetops each scolding and calling the other oilier bad names and making no end of ot a IL fuss ami It lovely cried Sammy Jay as a lie ho listened You know there thero Is II nothing Sammy enjoys moro more than a quarrel between other peo people le Now Nose v O Chatterer was I too spry for tor Rusty and after a IL bit Rusty gave gae up chasing Chatterer decided lIe he wits ns hungry Not far fat away aw y was as another ono otto of ot his storehouses It was a small email one In which he h had tucked away some ome very ery choice beechnuts lie H n decided to slip slipover slipover over Or to ft t and get some omo of those beechnuts choice beechnuts limit But ho made euro uro uro that nobody saw aw aw him hen ho retched lt that little storehouse ho had a II dreadful shock For a moment It left hm hIm quIte quit ape speech speech- speech eh- eh lou Ius Then Th n ho Ito found his tongue and you OU should have heard It rD go goMy My my my amy liy you ou should have heard It col go You ou SOP see s r there then ther wasn't ri l beechnut In that little store store- storehouse storehouse house lid IJ taken them Can you RUMS guess who It was WI Chat Chat- Chatterer Chatterer couldn't Copyright 1127 by T 1 W W Burgess The next nezi n story Crows Thin I hat arc you 1 0 immo 1110 about for tor he demanded |
