Show I WHEN SLEPT Dy By Thornton Thonton W Burgess When hen one is wrapped In slumber r deep lIe can no watch oer o'er treasures keep Chatterer Chatterer the Red Squirrel Now t-ow Chatterer the Red ned Squirrel Squirrel rd rel and his lila big cousins Hap Jack the Gray Squirrel and Rusty the Fox ox Squirrel lov loved d the tho daylight ight They do not like the Black Shadows that come creeping Ui up from the Purple Hills after JOIl Jolly round red Mm MI Sun line has gone to bed They take care to be at home snugly curled up In bed beel by the time the Black Shadows reach the Green Forest lorest They are up and out and about just as LIS soon as Jolly round red Mr Sun begins his dally daily climb up In the blue blue sky and nil all allday allday day long song their sharp eyes are watching all alt that goes on about them It Is the same way with their little cousin Striped Chip Chip- Chipmunk Chipmunk munk He too lo loves es the tho ds day but not the night There Is is however another Squirrel cousin who comes out with the tho coming of ot the Black Shadows an and goes back to be bed 1 with the coming of the Jolly Lt- Lt Lttie Lit Little tie tle Sunbeams Can you guess who it Is Of 01 course you can cau n It is Timmy the Flying SquIrrel lie He loves best of or all those hours when it is neither light nor dark Ho loves the dusk the tho very very time that the Owl and Spooky the Screech Owl and all other members of tho the Owl family love They rhey are the tho ones he tie has to watch out for but he ho doesn't lave have to worry much about mem memo members members bers hers of ot the Hawk family Now Timmy likes nuts quite as aswell aswell aswell I well as do some of ot his larger lIe Ha eats seeds of ot vari vari- various van van- vanous various ous kinds as well rs cs nuts In Intact fact ho he eats Just about what Chatterer the Red fled Squirrel eats But when you have lave had several cousIns working bard haId all da day loy by bythe bytho the tho time night comes cornea there are few nuts to be found So It hap hap- happened happened that while whilo Chatterer and amI Happy Jack and Rusty Husty and StrIped Chipmunk had their storehouses well welt filled TImmy Jimmy was not so fortunate Ho lle didn't worry for tor he ho Is not the tho worrying kind lIe Ho never had starved and ho didn't expect to starve stane but buthe buthe ho he felt that it it would be a lot lotmore lotmore lotmore more comfortable It if he had a lit lit- little littie lit little tle tie more food stored awa away S Sm when quite by accident he dig dig- dis discovered covered one of or Chatterers Chatterer's store store- storehouses storehouses houses he ho promptly helped him him- himself himself him himself self He lIe guessed whose store stor- storehouse house it was but It la is the law of the Green Forest that what what- whatever whatever ever one may find one ono may keep It wasn't stealing as It would have ha been had you or I 1 taken those nuts It Is the law of the Green Forest FOlet that ono one must tilde things so that they cannot In foUnd If It they are found they become the property of whoever finds them So Timmy Jimmy didn't hesitate to empty that store storo- storehouse storehouse house Then a a little later he found W I You have o seen hini those long flying jumps front from tree to tree another storehouse of Chatterers Chatterer's and this one was filled with sweet tender beechnuts How those big soft sott eyes of Timmy's Jimmys did sparkle and how he did work that night You should have seen him l lm make those long flying jumps from tree to tree as he carried those those nuts nuts those tender beechnuts to beechnuts to a private little storehouse of his own jy fly flythe Bythe the time Jolly round red re red Mr Sun began his dally daily climb not Otto oue little beechnut was left In Chatterers Chatterer's store storehouse house and Tim TIm- TImmy Timmy my my himself was curled up In his bed fast tast asleep That is why Chatterer saw nothing ot of o him and didn't once suspect him Now as I said before In the eyes eos of ot the little people of the Green Forest and under the laws s of the tho Green Forest Timmy had done no wrong For you OU to to take something which belonged to an- an another another an another other would be wrong It he wrong for tor one of the little people in the Green Forest to take something from another by fighting for tor It That would ue be robber robbery But to find something and tako take it would not bo ho wrong That Is Old Mother other Natures Nature's way ot of training her little people to tobe toba he be so clever and smart that the they th can hide things where no ont one will find tind them They know th tb-it If they thy hide them where here others are likely to find them they do- do de deserve serve sero to lose loso them So had Jimmy heard Chatterer calli him thief It wouldn't have troubled him any for tor he felt that lIe ho wasn't nt a n thief but simp simply smart stuart smart enough to find tinel Chatterers Chatterer's storehouse Copyright 1927 by hy T W 1 Bur Bur- ge Buc-ge GO 8 s The next story Chatterer Ch Puts In a II Busy Day |