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Show IS FOR LITTLE FOLKS K RUSTLE RED SQUIRREL Oscar Owl krpl on scolding about having to pay all the rent for his. apartment In Maple-Tree Flats, when Rustic Red-6quirrel lived In it ai High! Wttlls he w is nut, and yet never offered to pay a cent Ting.illnt:. the falFJ landlord, and Nancy and Nick stood and listened j bet '!sc 'he wasn't anything else they could do. Tiusallng leaned on one foot, then on ihe other, and I ' There St Rustic Red -Squirrel on .i hmb. smiling in the most fr.cndly bbbbbh H tapped his bin sharp !' ad pencil on j Hpi Ins bod!. hoping Oscar would got H scolding. whn sudden!;, a H little voice just outside the I. door 1 egan to i Ing '4B, J "Chlckarub riddle, oh chickarum rec. y Coon in i ho brambles can't see me; live In a very fine Maple-Tree Flat. B Now, plo.ne tell me. sirs, where do I ki ' H Bverybod) turned and there sat H Rustle Ked. Squirrel himself on H limb, smiling id tho most friendly .ncy answered his quest inn first. "We are Nancy nd Nick, the twins, and we live in a white house on a hill." Tingallng answered next "I'm the! fa, ', landlord Oi the Land of Dear-Know Dear-Know h Where, and I liv why. dear me. where do I live? I completely forget I'm t busy attending ' oth-1 er people's houses, that 1 never have i time to think about my own. But, mj wife Will remember. She always remembers everything for me when. to take my medicine, and when to ' hang r.iy locks, nd when to put in the wjiidow scieens, and when to" But Mi Owl interrupted him. "Hop ping toads'" he exclaimed, "what's .nil this chatter of 60cks and medicine and Window screens? I m . landing here shivering in my night-clothes whin' you people act as though you were ai awing society meeting or a strawberry ice cream festival Xow's our chance. Mr Landlord Tingallng. to auk Kuslle Ked-Pquirrel for his share of my rent." I (Copyright, 1920. N. E. A.) |