| Show I BURGESS BEDTIME STORIES STORIES I l Jt BOY DOr BOYL L T D B 1 W V GJ S will seldom make makuA A very serious mistake Mrs Mrs Grouse GIouse Parmer armer Browns Brown's Boy was much troubled aa QS ho he saw everything I lapped in Ice and 1 thought ol of the furred and feathered leathered who wl must somehow find food lood en enough ough to eat cat Of Ot course you ou know knew just what he did He did the thIng he had so often done clone be before fore fOle He lie sta storied started out right after to put out food for tor Ills his little friends It II was easy eMY enough to supply sunflower 8 weds seeds suet grain and amid chaff chaft front from the barn for Sammy Jay Tommy Tit tIe the Chickadee Dotty tho the Tree SparroW and other little feathered roll folk who came conic about the house It as easy eny enough to corn anti ane nus auts mor ue tile cousins It was even cven an nn cas easy matter to take some good things over to the clear Old Briar patch Briar patch jot for Peter and amid Mrs Peter But Dut to feed eed Mr and Mrs Irs Grouse was an- an another an another other matter You see he ho didn't know ow where they were sere He lIe didn't where to put food for them Ito He lid IId take some buckwheat over to overto th the Green J Forest and scatter It I where ho he hoped they might find It ck the Pheasant found lound It and gobbled it all up so It dId tobe tob do some seine good needs heeds to bc b fed as well ell ehl asIr as Mr Ir and end ts 1 Grouse Oleuse er Browns Brown's Boy Doy tramped around for tor some time trying to find Mr lr and Mrs rs Grouse When finally ho hG turned homeward l lit wa was I You lee nee co heI he I was afraid that hat alre already dy something hind hod ed to them Im In afraid they were caught taught under crUst said he lie as he tramped ng Weve eve had soft son snow enow for forso forso torso so long that I am afraid they had I formed armed the habit of ot plunging pl down Into it to sleep If It they did that last night they surely were ere ero caught by this crust Oh dear I wish I 1 knew where to look for tor them l He lie couldn't get Mr and Mrs Grous o his thoughts He sumi or as Pa he I tramped along the elge of at the tle Old Orchard Suddenly he stopped II tie stopped and stood perfectly still sUIl Over in one of ot the oldest In the Old Orchard Or hard well out where the smaller twigs grew Brew were two big birds birda He lie could hear bear the lh th tinkle inkle of ot tiny liny bits of ot ice falling H ii knew those big birds r instantly of at course They were Mr Grouse lad and Mrs Grouse They Thy are budding exclaimed Browns Brown's Boy DOY under his breath They are eating the bulion on the apple tree My it does mb m good to see them There may may not nobe be as many apples on that tree treek tre k 6 Jr cr S 'S f z c- c fc Hr r I l hey lie Je t rc 0 budding claimed I Do Boy Hoy under Ills brt-alli brt next year ear but I 1 dont don't care Im I'm glad they had sense enough to rem remember these apple appie trees and conic come over o here It must be pret ty h l ard pl picking for them now with all that ice ico on the buds but Jut If Ie the sum lUI comes out and out and I guess Its It's gom going the to-the to the Ice Ico will melt fro thuc e trees or oer o e hero here in the Old than sooner Booner than it will from the trees over there In the Green Forest Mr and Mrs Grouse Parmer Browns Brown's Do Boy Do you thing the they flew Jew awa away Not a Q bit bitof bitof of It They Just went right on the ice tee oft off those buds and amid then picking plc off oCt the tho ho buds an flu i 1 notor eating them They rhey knew that not not for tor the world would Farmer Boy Doy harm them So they he cain ly continued with their break break- breakfast breakfast fast Casl What hat they didn't know was thet the they were doing an any harm rhe They didn't know Imo that that apple appletree tree treo would have fewer apples apples because he- he e- e cause of ot the budding they were doing J No sit sir they didn't know anything about that To Th them II a tree was a n tree no matt matter r It grew Brew Sor So Mr r and Mrs Grouse went wenton on eating buIs buhs as fa fat fast t as IlS the they could Farmer armer Drowns Browns Boy Doy con con- continued continued continued on to the big rod red barn no Do you know what he was going for lor He was ives going fo for tor buck buck- hrat lie He understood the He need of er Mr and amid Mj's Mr Grouse io and he lie wu was going for tor buckwheat Copyright 19 1927 7 TV T W V Burgess BurgeS the he next story etory stor Farmer Irons ns n's Boy By Saves es the tho Grouse Groue and am the he Fruit |
