Show reddy squirrel frightened by mr blacksnakes Black snakes clothes by Til THORNTON ORNTON BURGESS some people poke their noses in where no right to be if they get hurt it serves them right im sure all agree C HATTERER THE RED BED SQUIRREL get hurt exactly but he received a great fright and disappointment and im sure that you will agree with me that this was no more than he deserved you see he had no business there anyway it 1 t all came about through being chased to uie green forest by bumble the bee it was a joke on oa the part of 0 bumble but chatterer sure of this and dare stop to find out lest he should feel that sharp little lance bumble always has with him so he had run until an all out of at breath and temper he had reached the green forest there bumble left him and returned t to 0 the sweet flowers ot of the green M meadows now chatterer been in the it ie green forest for some time he used to live there but since he had ma made ef friends he n ds with farmer browns boy he had lived in the old orchard and had grown fat and lazy on the good things farmer browns boy was forever giving him now he realized that his run had made him hungry and he ha began to wonder what he could find to eat cat there in the green forest it was the wrong time of year for nuts but there ml might lit there just might be some eggs his bright eyes darted this way and that way and the instant he saw aresty the flycatcher and mrs aresty acting as if they were we retrying trying very hard to keep out of sight lie guessed right away that they had a nest not tar far away so he hid where he could watch them and sure enough he saw them enter a hole in a tree not tar far distant a hole that drummer the woodpecker had made a long time ago chatterers eyes sparkled with eagerness and wickedness what a feast I 1 will havel have thought he in great glee 1 I just love fresh fres heggs eggs and I 1 am sure that there are fresh eggs there by the doomed man Is honored guest at own wake 15 7 T 1 4 s t 0 X i ai AL death was an invisible guest at a gay party given in honor of claude joseph bradley pictured at piano in a brooklyn N Y club the affair abair given by some of brads i lends friends was an ante mortem wake for the gueston gue guest of honor D doomed e d by a serious illness illness he has only a few weeks of life left according to his doctors Uti undaunted daunted he olei jests ts about his fate and proved his bis courage by baing bein the life of the party at the wake the arrow inthe in the upper right points to the honored guest way aresty acts ill just wait until he and his wife go out tor for their dinner and then ill pay their home a little visit I 1 prefer not to find them at home when I 1 call which shows that chatterer is something ot of a coward as is almost always the case with those who do mean things chatterer watched and watched all the time taking the greatest care to keep out of sight himself at last he saw mr and mrs bilty leave the tree where the hollow was and he knew by the way they acted that they were going to get their dinner no sooner were they out of sight than chatterer was scamper I 1 Q ap I 1 4 III jilt N ncr nc r chatterer watched and watched all the time taking the greatest care to keep out of sight himself ing tor for the tree they hadi hadlett left as fast as he could go and all the time he was chuckling wickedly as he thought of those unguarded eggs up the tree he scrambled and around to the hole where he had seen aresty go in and come out just as he almost reached it something hanging from it caught his eye it moved chatterer gave a smothered little shriek of fright and actually tumbled out of the tree he stop to run down he just let go and dropped ohl he gasped ohl oh dear what a narrow escalet escape that was the tail ot of mr blacksnake hanging out of that hole it if I 1 seen that just when I 1 did I 1 should have run right into his very mouth and all the time mr blacksnake was far away it was only the tail of his old coat which cr aresty esty and his wife had used in their nest and which swung in the wind just outside the doorway that had given chatterer such a fright and so had saved the eggs of which aresty and mrs aresty were so brou prou proud d only sticky toes the tree toad saw all that happened and laughed until he almost split his sides 0 T W burgess service |