Show STORY BY THORNTON W BURGESS JERRY MUSKRAT HAS TWO CALLERS IT WAS very very early la in the morning it was so early in the morning that some folks would hardly have hare known mown it was morning but it was jerry muskrat sitting on the bis big rock nock in the smiling pool knew that it was he fie knew that over behind the purple hills somewhere jolly round red mr air sun was kicking off lila his bed clothes and making ready to show tits his big red face above the edge of the great world as he began its his dally daily climb up in the blue blue sky which seeni seem blue now because of the darkness A stiver silver line started out from one bink ink and made straight toward the I 1 7 A t hows the little worker getting on with filling his Store storehouse bouse asked reddy big ro nock c R jerry muskrat saw it also tie fie saw a brown head at one end of that silver line Il hello lello billy mink hows the fishing squeaked jerry billy stopped swimming and floated while he talked Il hello lello jerry lie he replied 1 I thought id find and you liere here it seem like the big rock not to find you sitting on it at this hour fishing Is good you that reminds me that reddy for happened along yesterday ant and seemed to lie be taking great interest in you tta my new dimise explained terry what reddy keddy Is so inter ested in oil oh Is it there was something very like sur surprise surprie prie in billy minks voice 1 I thought it was your food lie he nien mention tion house to me well I 1 must go on oil I 1 think ill go down to tho the lug ilig river and see what ts Is going on the sliver silver line with the little brown head tit at the end of it moved swiftly across the Sn smiling illing pool and vanished down the laughing brook jarr jerry muskrat thoughtfully pulled tits his whisk ers era that Is funny said lie to himself that certainly Is tunny funny redd never mentioned food to me I 1 won der but just what jerry wondered no one will ever know for who should appear on the bank of the smiling pool poo just then but reddy fox foi himself hows the little worker retting getting on with filling alling his storehouse not as well as lie Is going to be in about two minutes replied jerry rather shortly and with a splash dived from the big rock lie he was gone for quite a while during which time hp bf dug up and carried to his storehouse three particularly rne roots then being tired he once more climbed out on the big roch and the very first thing he saw was reddy fox just where he had last seen him film reddi redd look as it if lie had moved ive been waiting for you jerry you were gone fora for a long time sald said lie he 1 I know you were waiting replied jerry 1 I guess it would nl have made any difference if I 1 had because these days dass I 1 have too much to do to gossip winter will soon be liere here and ive a lot to get done before then to hear him you would have thought that he fie had so much to do that lie he sit still a minute oh it matter replied reddy 1 I have time enough to cpr spare I 1 just waited to say to you that last night I 1 discovered some of the finest carrots that ever I 1 have tat laid eyes on and knowing that you like them I 1 thought of you right away and how perhaps you might like some to put away for the winter right away jerry was interested 0 1933 1033 by T W burgess service |