Show TilE THE GREAT T STORM STOR It nr T Thornton W W. w. When Mother Iother Nature takes a hand well welt to heed her least com corn rand mand l Duster Buster Bear Dear Every so ao often oCton Buster Dusler Bear the ho big tree In the Green Forest which ho he knew knee contained the he summers summer's store of honey of Busy Dusy Bee and her relatives s Those visits were wore uselesS lie Ho knew that hat lie He knew he couldn't get at that honey honE But Dut Just the tho same ho he 10 had to go around there and look ook at the tho tree every cry so often and when he did stand stand- there look look- looking Ing ng up at that tree how he did didong long ong for some means of ot getting at that th t honey hones Ills His tongue would hang out of his month mouth and the I water valor would drip from it It Yes sir it would so But Dut it was uso- uso useless less ess Strong as We Se woo was he couldn't teal tear open that tree to get at that honey hone I Ho lIo was over there one after after- afternoon afternoon noon when it began to grow dark darl I Ivery very rapidly It wasn't time for tho ho Black Dlack Shadows to come creep creep- creeping creepIng creepIng ing out from the Purple Hills II Ills but it grew rew dark darl even cven faster than had hadIt It bern time for them Buster Busier had an oln uneasy uneas feeling an uncomfortable feeling It became very en very est y still The there only sound In IU the tho O to t Green r be heard For d I It was the lie t constant c calling of Sticky Sticky- ee toes the Tree Toad Hes lIos calling for rain and I r Iguess Iguess guess he is going g to get gett U t mut mut- muttered muttered Buster Dusler sniffing the air and anel swinging his head from side to side Not ol a Q leaf leat stirred It grew stilt still darker Long deep roars of ot thunder warned arned that It was going to b bs bl s a bad storm Buster Busier hur hur- hurriedly hurriedly hurriedly turned and shuffled away toward a J. J certain cave deep d el In the Green Forest a Forest a cave where he would be dry and safe sate and com corn He lie didn't like the feeling feel feel- feelIng feelIng ing that coming storm gave him He Ito was Just at the entrance to the cave e when the first great big drops camo came pattering down Then how It I poured It grew almost as black as night The rhe lightning flashed and the thunder crashed and Iho the trees smashed d and the tho rain dashed and Duster Buster Just curled up In a n ball bail He lie was scared 1 Yes sir he was scarp scared Big Dig as he was WIla he was we W S scared And ho he knew that all alt the other oIlier little people In the Green Forest were scared too loo The wind twisted branches front from I the trees and blow blew some trees over o and altogether It was wal one on of ot the worst storms that ever visited the Green GreNt Forest It II wano wa was no wonder that even big Buster Bear Benr was frightened With his head tucked lucked under he couldn't see seo the lightning but he could coul hear the crashing of the thunder and the smashing of ot the trees tre-cs as ns they fell and it seemed to him that this his I must be the end nd of ot everything You may be quite sure that he forgot all about Busy BUHY lIce Dee and her honey hon y He Its actually whimpered reI One fIne tree fell felt right across the entrance entrance- to Hunters Busters Hupt rs r's cave lie He squealed right out when that crashed down But the tulle people of ot the Green Forest and the tho big people too for that matter forget torget their troubles as liS soon aa as they are over r orThe The storm torin passed Duster Buster could coull hear hur the thunder rumbling and rolling roiling but It was waa far tar away It |