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Show JOHNNY AND POLLY CHUCK iO TO WORK. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. i When you've a thine: to do Ju.t elo lt-1 If you postpone it you may rue H. I Johnny Chuck. At Johnny Chuck's whistle Polly! Chuck promptly started to Join In the heart of the dear Old Briar-patrh. Of ceiurse It was no easier for her to get through Potcr Rabbit's llttlo paths1 than it had boon for Johnny, and by tho time sh arrived she had o,ult'.; lust her temper In the first place she had been badly frightened when Roddy Fox had dug open their home. She had not been afraid for her-'ir but for the babies Then ln trying to I get to Johnny she had been scratched j by the brambles and this had not made her feel any better-natured. "What Is it?" she snapped. "What have you railed me over here for?" "To show you this old house which my gre-at-grrat-grandfather dug Ion?. I long ago,'' replied Johnny mildly. "I think It Is Just what wc need until i w e can get a better one." Tolly Chuck looked at the tumhled-down tumhled-down doorway half choked with dead leaves, and promptly turned up her little black nose. "I wouldn't live In such a house " she declared. "But we have got to have a house right away for the babies," said Johnny, looking a llttlo crestfallen "It may not ho a very good house, but j It moans safety for tho babies. Never in tho world will Reddy Fox get In here." "And never in the world will we bo able to get out to get food without tearing our coats all to pieces." snapped snap-ped Polly. Meanwhile the baby Chucks, who. because they were small, had had no difficulty ln following their moth' r along Peter Rabbit's private little pths had been exploring tlown lnsld-' the old house. "It Is a splendid old houee down Inside." declared one of the babies, poking his funny little, head out of the doorway His mother sniffed, but a momO'it later sho followed him down Inside, i She was gone so long that Johnny' began to think something must have happened to her. When she did ap-j pear again she seemed to have forgotten for-gotten that she had said that that old house would not do at all "For goodness sake, Johnny Chuck, what are you sitting around for?" she demanded "Why don't you get to work? However do you expect we are going to make this a fit place to live In If you sit around doing nothing" Clean out this doorway." Polly Chuck disappeared down Inside In-side again. Johnny's eyes twinkled, but he wisely said nothing and wer.t to work. In almost no time at all he had cleaned out all those dead leave and presently tho yellow aanel began to fly out of the doorway Meanwhile Polly Chuck was at work. She had I discovered that there was a back hall-I hall-I way that led out towards the edgo of I the dear Old Briar-patch. Of course Whal Is ii " she snapped. What have you idled me over here for?" there had been a secret hack door there when grandfather Chuck had made this his home. But this ha '. bet a blocked up long ago. Polly no a j went to work to dig that back hall out to tho edge of the Old Briar-patch. Briar-patch. Sho Intended to have a secret ritramo there. All the sand sh; pushed behind her and this son Johnny Chuck wai expected to pu on out of the entrance ln the hea . or the old Briar-Patch. My' how Johnnv and Polly did work' They dldnt waste a minu: . Meanwhile Peter Rabbit (tat around and looked on. Peter was Just a tttl bit uncomfortable In his mind. Y'o know It wai he who had show i J' hnny Chuck that old house and he wasn't at all sure what Mrs. Pe'.ei would say when she knew of it. (Copyright. 122. by T. W. Surges The next story: "Peter gets a Scolding." 00 H |