Show CHILDRENS BEDTIME STORY by THORNTON W BURGESS MERRY LITTLE BREEZES LEARN THE JOY OF WORK f rhory here a nothing like tome some honest work ro fo make the minutes minute swiftly fly lo in fill fall the day with golden joy and sat act the he hours skipping by LL summer bummer long ions the merry little ALL breezes of old mother west wind had played on the green mead blend aws and in the green forest to dance and play piny was what hat they were made for at least that is what they seemed to think why anyone should work was something they tin nn derc der tand stand in of the fact that old mother west wind herself worked every day when early in the morn ing she would turn them out of tire the ble big bag to play they would wat watch e b her go away to turn the windmills Is that pumped the water for the cows to blow white galled ships across t the he dis tant carlt ocean to sweep away the g smoke moke froni rote great cities and they would won 0 il I 1 a a S ai happy jack and chatterer were still quarreling der why she did these things when it was waa so BO much easier just to do noth ing at all or to romp and play but even playing ni becomes tiresome especially when nobody will play with you and now that the busy autumn had come there was no one to play with everybody was too busy to play so it came about that the merry little breezes because they could think of nothing else to do offered to 0 o help striped chipmunk of whom they were very fond they offered to shake down outs nuts from the trees that he might more easily nil fiti his secret storehouse you know striped up chip munk Is not much of a climber lie ile can climb if he has to hut but he be never feels at home in the trees and never likes to get far above the ground so for his hl winter stores he be depends on what he can find on the ground and let me tell you there are no brighter eyes than cloge of striped chipmunk when it comes to finding nuts and seeds hidden bidder under tinder brown leaves but bill there are others quite as eager as striped stripe d C chipmunk hip munk to find fand nuts for secret storehouses t specially especially his ins happy jack squirrel and chat the red squirrel and because they are bigger and stronger and very very selfish they often chase striped chipmunk away so Is 1 it any wonder that when the merry little breezed offered to shake down the brown nuts for him striped chipmunk chased lit hie tall for pure happiness happy jack and chatterer sere ere still quarreling and their voices sounded harsh and angry as the merry little breezes danced along ahead of striped chipmunk to a tree some distance from where happy lack jack and chatterer were calling each other names and worse than wasting the golden min ut utes of that beautiful day striped chipmunk looked up and his eyes sparkled the me night before jack frost had opened the prickly burrs a and nd striped chipmunk could see the brown nuts ready to drop the merry little breezes shook a branch and down rattled the brown nuts striped chipmunk squealed with joy and stuffed the pockets of his cheeks until the merry little breezes shouted with laughter because be looked so tunny funny then he scampered away to his secret storehouse back he came and did it all over again As soon as an he be had bad picked up the last nut the merry little breezes shook another branch and down showered more brown bills roll ing under the brown leaves on the ground it was great tun ton it seemed as if those bright eyes of striped chipmunk saw where every nut rolled to of bourre they but those they see fee his keen little now nose found so it amounted to the same thing never had the lie merry little breezes bad such a good time some times they would tease striped chipmunk by shaking down only a few at a time then they would shrike shake a branch so ao hard that the he brown nuts nun would fly by in all directions but striped chipmunk mind all he be wanted was to have the nuts on the ground where he could let et them back and forth back bach and forth back and forth he scampered between his big secret store house and the place where the brown nuts were being shaken down and in his heart was a song of joy and there was it a like joy in the hearts of the merry little breezes for they had discovered the joy of something to do of work never had a day passed so BO quickly they had helped another and in so doing had won for them selves a great happiness well come again tomor tomorrow r owl 1 they cried as they saw old mother west wind coming across the green mend mead aws with her big hay bag in which to take them to their home behind the purple hills thank Ili ank you cried striped chip munk as he sat down to rest tits his weary legs leea 0 1131 bv bt T W Burr reas service |