| Show CHILDRENS STORY by THORNTON IV W BURGESS JERRY MAKES HIS WALLS STOUT to make success ot of any plan each bach one mut must do the be best t he can if then the plan does docs not succeed u c aeed to blame him elf he be has ha no need EVER in his life had jerry muskrat nevell been happier than he was as die tolled to build that new dew house houm ue ile was far happier than when he had nothing to do but play about as had been the case all summer ile he got tired of course but it was the healthy kind of tiredness that meant sound round sleep when he crept into his bed in his castle in the hank bafik of the laughing brook and each day there was the splendid feeling that what he had done counted for something that there bad been no do waste of time so jerry Alus muskrat krat was happy halpy and because he was ins happy he talked and because there was no one near to talk to he talked to himself ile he had just JUM cut the roots of a bulrush and was resting for a moment bea before fore taking the whole plant over to use in hull buil dins dlin hla his new dew house it was hard gett settling geutting ting this plant up by the roots maid eald he be and that was because the groots were mere well ell fastened to the ground whatever Is well rooted Is hard to move more think it over jerry jul jui think it over the flood swept away your house bouse last spring sweep away the bul bulrushes rushes or the trees along the bank of the laughing brook bronk that was because they were vere so well rooted the foundations of your house 4 A 11 A a 1 so 60 jerry sat on the foundation walls walla of his new house and will was happy are its roots so to speak just keep that in mind jerry and see that the foundation walls are broad and stout jerry chuckled at the funny notion of calling the foundations of hl bits house roots then he swam over to use that bulrush in the foundation of his house remembering how his old house had been swept away jerry spent a great deal of time and attention on the foundations of his new house the bits of sod he had dug up and the mud he be had taken from his tunnels and cellar were good as far as they went but jerry was too good a builder not to know that if he used nothing else his bis foundation would be weak so he brought roots and bits of sticks and the stalks of rushes and these he worked into his foundation walls with the nind mud and the hits bits of sod and he maile these walls brond broad and stout and vent nent over and over them to make sure there were no weak places in them so gradually the walls rose until when jerry stood on them only his feet were in the water by the end of another night he could sit on them without so much as wetting his feet all the hard work under water was finished there was still a lot of hard work to be done but it would b be plea pleasant pleasanter santer cr and therefore easier than the work already done so jerry sat on the foundation walls of his new house and was happy and dreamed dreams of how he would build the finest house that ever a muskrat built a house so line fine that even his big cousin paddy the deaver beaver would be envious of him and dreaming his fine dreams under the twinkling stars jerry forgot the one thing that none of the little people of the green forest or the green meadows or the laughing brook or the smiling pool or the old orchard ever should forget for a 11 wee wee minute to watch out for danger and this was quite as the owl had hoped it would be when he had first discovered what jerry musk rat was doing there in the smiling pool 0 1933 by ayt T W bergem service lc |
