Show BURGESS BEDTIME STORIES MR AND MRS RATTLES AT ATH HOM H 0 M. M By THORNTON W. W BURGESS Who to his own affairs doth tend Will seldom have hla own to mend Rattles the Kingfisher Rattles Is a feathered person who attends to his own affairs It is vcr very very nry seldom that he meddles with the affairs ot of other people So as a rule Rattles and Mrs Rattles are left leCt alone They prefer preter to have It so They The nest where no other birds save ave certain members of the lie swallow family would dream or of nesting It wa waa a long time before Peter Pete Rabbit discovered where the they did nest and when he was told where they nested It was a long time lime before he be Would believe It In fact It wasn't until he Faw s go In Inand inand and come out that Peter Would believe It really was the home of the I Kingfishers You know Mr and Mrs Rattles Rallies make theIr home under round ground That seems queer doesn't It They are cave dwellers and they make their own cave e Yes sir they do so Th They find a nice sand sandor or gravel bank and then make quite a long Jong tunnel just big for them to pass through in comfort At the end ot of that tunnel the they make mako a comfortable little room or cave down below the grass roots that Is where Mrs Kingfisher lays their pearly whIte eggs and where finally th little Kingfishers are hatched There are not man many enemies can canet get et to that nest so Rattles and ani Mrs Rattles have ha little tittle to worry about aboul on that sore score el E Every Spring Peter watches Rattles the Kingfisher and then he has a a. great time U 11 Ing to find out just where and Mrs Rattles are arc living Yeu see the only way In WhIch ho hI can see that entrance Is by looking Good Morning Rattles said uld he from the bank This sprIng Peler leter had had no luck In fInding the home ot of RalLies Whenever ho be visited the Smiling Pool he saw Rattles or Mrs Rat Rat- Rattles tIes or both and lie he knew that they must have a home not tar far from froni there But Dut the trouble was they were almost sure to B separ pa- pa ate One would go up the h. h Ing Brook Drook and by the time Peter could make up his mind one to follow both bolh would be out ot of sIght lie He would hear their harsh rattling voices and he al always ways had a suspicion that the they were laughing at hIm Ill find their home yet Peter Pc-Ier would say and stamp the ground impatiently You see Eee he was really a little bit vexed The first chance chanco he got he be asked askell Rattles where his home was Rattles RallIes was slUing sitting on a branch of the Big HIckory Tree Trec overlooking o the Smiling Pool lie He was on one of the lower branch brauch- cs and Peter sat down just be be- below below low him Good Morning Rat nat tIes said lit lie this fine spring weather I suppose you and Mrs 1 Rattles will ho goIng to housekeeping pretty soon Rattles turned Ills his head and looked down at al Peter We are are housekeeping already said he What Whal exclaImed Peter pre pre- pretending tending to bo be very nry much surprised ed you ou begun early this year ear It must be that you ou are usIng one ot of your old houses housu The eyes of Rattles twinkled No said Bald he It mustn't be any tiling thing ot of the sort It mustn't bp b band and It Wo have a brand new homo home and one we ve think quite the nicest we wc have havo ever had Were Vere you ou talking about aboul new homo home inquIred Mrs loiN Rat ties In the Big Hickory Tree Yes Yel replied H tUell Peter Ieter was wa asking about it il Invite In him over o Mrs Irs Rattles Then with a harsh barsh rat rat- |