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Show CHILDREN'S , STORY THORNTON W. BURGESS JERRY MAKES HIS WALLS STOUT To make success of any plan Each one must do the best he can. If then the plan does not succeed To blame himself he has no need. M EVER in his life had Jerry A Muskrat been happier than he was as he toiled to build that new rushes and these he worked into bis foundation walls with the mud and the bits of sod. And he made these walls broad and stout and went 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 an-other night he could sit on them without so much as wetting his feet. All the hard work under water wa-ter was finished. There was still a lot of hard work to be done, but It would be nlensnntep nnd thprpfnm in their most favorable positions. Everything you do will be favored ; your personality will be at its best, to begin with ; you will have a sense of power, a feeling of the auspieiousness of the day. You will be at your best In every way. Don't forget the date; it's your lucky day." She did not forget the date. Indeed, In-deed, she left business that was pending to be consummated on that date. And sure enough, when she got up In the morning she Just knew that everything would go her way. She had that feeling of power, pow-er, of control over her destiny. She got up to an early start to make the auspicious day last longer. She sang In her bath and smiled at the newspaper woman on the corner. And everything did go her way. In her business transactions she got all the breaks. Not only that, but she made an unexpected contact with an Important executive, and her consciousness of power and success suc-cess Impressed him so that new opportunities op-portunities were opened up to her. And last but not least, the magic wand attracted the man she subsequently subse-quently married. Her lucky day? "It's a good thing," remarked her cynical young brother, "that that astrologlst fellow fel-low told you it was your lucky day You might just not have recognizee, that sense of power, you might have forgotten to sing in your bath and radiate that feeling of success that got you everything you wanted ! house. He was far happier than when he had nothing to do but play about, as had been the case all summer. He got tired. Of course. But it was the1 healthy kind of tiredness thnt meant sound sleep when he crept Into his bed In bis castle in the bank of the Laughing brook. And each day there was the splendid feeling that what he had done counted for some- 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 fine that even his big cousin, Paddy the Beaver, would be envious en-vious of him. And dreaming his fine dreams under the twinkling stars Jerry forgot the one thing that none of the little DeoDle of the Green Forest, or the Green Meadows or the Laughing Brook or the Smiling Pool or the Old Orchard Or-chard ever should forget for a wee, wee minute to watch out for danger. dan-ger. And this was quite as Hooty the Owl had hoped it would be when he had first discovered what Jerry Muskrat was doing there in the Smiling Pool. .'1933, by T. W. Burgess. WNU Service. Next time you have a deal on, come to me and I'll do the same thing for you !" Will my readers let me do the same thing for them? Very well-tomorrow well-tomorrow is your lucky day. You will have a consciousness of power, a sense of controlling your destiny. Every one you meet will come un der the spell. Your lucky day, re ' member, today and tomorrow and every day I Make the most of It I . 1933. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. rushes or the trees along the bank of the Laughing Brook. That was because they were so well rooted. The foundations of your house 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 no-tion of calling the foundations of his house roots. Then he swam overi to -use that-bulrush in the foundation of ., his hduse. Remem-! bering 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 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 foundations would be weak. So he brought roots and bits of sticks and the stalks of So Jerry Sat on the Foundation Walls of His New House and Was Happy. thing ; that there had been no waste of time. So Jerry Muskrat was happy, and because he was happy he talked, and because there'1 was no one near to talk to, he talked to himself. He had just jut the roots of a bulrush and was resting for a moment before taking the whole plant over to use In building his new house. "It was hard work getting get-ting this plant up by the roots," said he, "and that was because the roots were well fastened to the ground. Whatever is well rooted Is hard to move. Think It over, Jerry. Just think It over. The flood that swept away your house last gpring didn't sweep away the bul- |