Show I 1111 MR AND iD MRS GROUSE COME COlE DUDDING ING Ity lly Thornton R W Burgess It 11 all Is In the point of or vl vi view w What's wron wrong to me Is right to you ou Farmer Farmer Browns Brown's Boy Doy The winter hail had been hard haril Yu Yes sir the tile winter had been hard harJ No Noone Noone ono one knows know quite as well as the tho th lit lit- little lit little tle folk lolk of ot the tho th Green Forest Forc t and the th Green how hard the winter can an be Happy Jack Squirrel the lied Hed Squirrel Squirrel reI rel rel Rusty Busty the tho Fox ox Squirrel and som sonic of o the Mouse family who ho thriftily lay up stores oft ot or food fco oo lIn in tile the th fall do not have hav to worry It Is III the little people who nho ho eat at the tho hind or of o food tood that cannot be bt stored up who learn larn the th real bitterness or of bitter bIller weather eather Every IJ morning they must so go ou out to search for food II It they do not find food they cannot live lI The Fhe Th one OM on thing that the tir little folk oC or the Green Forest and the tho Green Meadows dread most le Is I an anIco anico Ico storm You know that is 1 one oneo of thoRe storms when it rains rain and the rain freezes freeze as fast as It fall falls It covers co the th trunk and branches or of tb the trees with a coating of hard Ice ice It covers cover everything on the tho ground with an Icy crust er Then Indeed Indeed It Is hard for the tho little people especially specially the th little feath feath- feathered feathered ered people to find enough enouch food lood to keep heat In their bodies bodle Just such a I storm had covered the Green Forest and the tb Green GreenMeadows Meadows with glitterIng shimmering shIm shIm- shImmering shim mering Ice It had come corn late In Inthe inthe the winter when food was a little hard liard to find anyway anway Mr and nd Mrs airs Grouse were fortunate that they were not caught under the crust that formed all through h the Green Forest t- t tn They n ni had been In i- i In inthe the snow to sleep but th the night before this Ice lc storm 1 Mrs rs Grouse had bad hail had an en uncomfortable feeling Something had warned her not to togo toCo go o to sleep under the snow So SoI I when Mr Grouse had said Come Ion on m my dear It Is time tima you OU went to bed bed she Iho ho replied I lOr am going to sleep Bleep up In a spruce tree to- to tonight to tonight nigh night Mr JIll Grou Grouse o had d tried trl d to argue Now Mr Grouse Grouia should have known better bettor than that Yes sir ho he should halo hav known better than thano to 10 havo tried to argue with Mrs Grouse Certainly ho had been married Ion long lone enough to know bet bet- bet better ter In the tho end ho he h did exactly as a Mrs Grouse wanted to do They retired tor for the th night In a spruce tree They rhey were welo sheltered under tho thick branches brandies and there ther sideby side sideby sideby by aide they went to sleep leep Dy and by Mrs Ml's Grouse awoke It was raining and sleeting She Sh poked J There h is little to eat at around here lr Grouse Mr Ir Grouse Now arent aren't you ou glad youre you're not down In that now now mid ald she be Uh hu replied Mr Ir Grouse sleepily That was WIlS all aU oho sho sh could get out of him When Wh n they the next n morning It was to find everything encased In to Ice They shivered ered It wasn't that they were cold They shivered at the Ibo tb thought of f what would happen If It they couldn't tied rind food and they knew that finding food would not lot bo be b an easy mat matter ter tor There 11 Ls mighty little to eat around here bere complained Mr Grouse These Thes spruce buds are aro arbitter bitter I think well wll hue have hav to go eo over to the th Old Orchard and get coins e apple buds b br- br covered with Ice aid a Id Mm Mrs G Grouse rou Grouf 1 I linow It ii replied Sirs Mrs Crouse I hut ut ute BO wo shall hall lust have to break I th the Ice Ico orr It 11 will III be easier erier to t get than any other food I know of Como Come Corn on my dear d ar Mrs Mr Grouse knew Mr Grouse was right The apple appi buds would be none non too easy to get set but they would be b easier caller to get than any other food toad she ahe ah could think of or So Soshe Soshe she and Mr Grouse hurried away over oer to the th Old Orchard and started In to 10 try to fill till their empty crops on apple bud COpyright 1937 l by T W Durgess The next story Farmer Drowns Browns Boy nOY Understands 00 00 |