Show CHILDRENS STORY by 1711 THORNTON W BURGESS JERRY MUSKRATS BUSY DAYS BEGIN TERRY ERRY had had an easy J summer there had been plenty to eat and little to do ile he had loafed played plated made social visits and had a good time generally there had been no mo good reason why he but now dow it was time to think of the coming winter and prepare for it and jerry was ready for or work there a lazy bone in jerry muskrats stout about little body that Is one way in which he differs from peter rabbit now that he had decided where he would build his new house jerry got to work without waste of time ills busy days had begun perhaps I 1 should have said his busy nights had begun for jerry like his big cousin paddy the beaw beaver prefers to work at night it if he bothered he works during the day also especially on a dull or rainy day hut but as a rule his bis real working hours begin just after jolly round red mr sun goes to his bed behind tin the purple of course peter rabbit was all curiosity as soon as he knew that jerry was to build a new house and el al al oe a 7 S N lit pro no ute use to try to fish there now grumbled billy mink every chance he got he slipped over to the smiling pool to see how jerry was getting on at first he could make nothing of it excepting that over beyond the big rock jerry was making the water terribly muddy now and then a eat cat tall would fall and disappear and in places the water would bubble and boll very hard showing that something was AS g going 01 ig on down beneath then after a little jerry would climb out on the big rock to rest and get his breath you know it an easy matter to hold your breath and work too and this la Is what jerry had to do at first only that part of the smiling pool poo beyond the big rock was muddy but gradually the muddy cirtie circle grew wider and wider until it began to look as if the whole smiling pool would be made muddy and unpleasant billy slink mink and little joe otter came down from the laughing brook to the smiling pool took one look at it and promptly turned back they were cross about it too no use to tb try to fish there now grumbled billy slink blink jerry muskrats krats doings must be he Is building a new house ile he seems to think no one else has any right in the smiling pool growled little joe otter 1 I say that no one has any right to let his bis private affairs interfere uita ith the affairs of his neighbors if lie he must build a house why he do it without cheating us out of a days fishing lets go down and tell him what we think of 0 him proposed billy mink waters too dirty I 1 can give ghe him a piece of my mind later the best thing for us to do Is to keep away from the smiling pool tor for a few days grumbled little joe otter but jerry muskrat knew clothing about the grumbling of his neighbors I 1 suspect it would have made no difference it if he had jerry had too much to do to worry about the feelings of his neighbors they would have to stand the muddy water until he got the foundations of his house laid and to lay these he had bad to dig digging under water made the water muddy and there was no help tor for it it if he could stand it they could so jerry dug and came up to rest and went down to dig again and was happy tor for to be usefully busy Is to be happy 0 1333 1933 by T W burnem service |