Show THE CHILDRENS CHILDREN EVENING TALE by THORNTON W BURGESS JERRY MUSKRAT DECIDES WHERE HE WILL BUILD building of a house is a very TUB therious Ts serious erious matter for any one you ask father if this so it isa matter for a great deal of thought and planning the very first thing to be decided Is where the house Is to be and this Is most important with the little of the green forest the green Alea meadows dows the laughing brook and the smiling pool the choosing of a place for a new house Is even more important than the building of the bouse itself no matter how one fine a ab NL k 44 the foundation must be in the water house may be built if it Is in a poor location it may be worse than no house at all you dont see how bow that can be supposing welcome robin should build a fine nest right to ID plain sight where black pussy could get to it with hardly ani any trouble it would be better tor for welcome robin to have no nest at all supposing johnny chuck should dig his house right in the middle ot of farmer browns vegetable garden it would be better tor for johnny to have no house at sit all so you see the picking out of a place to build Is most important jerry blus muskrat krat knows this ile he always has known it but since the washing away of 0 his old house in the flood he has appreciated the truth ot of this more than ever this Is why he was taking so much time to took look about before building a new house there were several things to be looked out for first of all he meant to be as sure as it was possible to be that this time bis big house would be out of 0 the current should the laughing brook become a flood again this would be quite a simple matter were it not for or other things the foundation must be in the water A house on dry land do at fill all it must be where from one side at least he could easily get to deep water so that he be froton froden in in the winter this was most important then it should be where the dl dipping sreng would he be fairly easy and dhere he could find plenty of things to build with so S you see jerry had much to think of in deciding just where to build that new house and he intend to be hurried into making any mistakes first he carefully examined all sides of the smiling pool then he went up the laughing brook a little way afterward he be went doar the laughing brook a little way put but neither up nor down the Laughl laughing ng g brook could he find a place that suited him at all ile he expected to ue he had looked so as to make sure then once more he carefully went all around the smiling POOL to ID some ways the place where his old house had stood was the best besl place of all but jerry had no anten tion of 0 being swept away in a flood again and anyone with half a an n eye could see that when the water r rose se to a certain height that place would be right in the middle of the current way around on one side where the bulrushes bul rushes grew thickest and tallest a little mud bar ran out into the smiling pool there the water was only a few inches deep but at the end of this little mud bank under water it sloped off sharply into deep water out beyond was the big rock nock in ID time of flood the big rock would break the current so that it never would sweep across that mud bank very hard the more jerry looked at this place the better it suited him ril finally nally he made up his bis mind this la Is the place said he to himself tin im going to build right here 0 1113 1933 by ayt T W Burai bunda ies service |