Show thornton nW W burgess burges S C aji a L gg n f act A c t 8 SAMMY JAY TOO EXCITED TO TALK STRAIGHT SAMMY JAY was excited everyone who heard him knew that and everybody who was anywhere near heard him they would have had to be stone deaf not to have sammy is just like some people when he gets just a little excited he begins to talk in a loud voice the M more ore excited he gets the louder he talks by and by when he gets very much excited he screams that is what he was doing this beautiful spring morning acrea screaming ming i as no one ever had heard him scream got into you sammy jay demanded peter before indeed he was so excited that his tongue go fast enough and tripped over his words and mixed things up so that no one could make out what he was trying to say he came flying out of the green forest flying as fast as he could make his wings go and screaming at the top of his lungs he saw jimmy skunk coming down the lone little path and flew to meet him hes a stranger and hes bl blackl ackill screamed reamed sc sammy chos a stranger and chos black asked jimmy anches And hes got great big claws in his mouth continued sam sammy my jimmy skunk stopped short and stared very hard at sammy jay say that again said he but just then sammy caught sight of peter rabbit down by his dear old briar patch oh I 1 must tell peter he screamed peter peter rabbit hes therel there hes bigger than farmer browns boy and he walks walk sill and all the time he was screaming this long before he was anywhere near the old briar patch jimmy skunk was still staring after him and scratching his head in i n a puzzled kind of way when along came unc billy possum unc billy grinned as he looked over toward the old briar patch mintah jaybirds Jay birds done gone crazy said he hes done gone crazy in his haid whoever heard of anybody with great big claws in his mouth now pter peter could make no more sense of what sammy was saying than could jimmy skunk and unc billy possum who walks sammy jay dont most people walk got into you sammy jay demanded peter but sammy keep still long enough to answer questions and of off he flew toward the smiling pool in search of billy mink and jerry muskrat and grandfather frog and as he flew he still screamed in the same excited way and peter heard something about long teeth and big feet all of which was very perplexing and of course made peter very very curious he straightway started to hunt up jimmy skunk to see if J jimmy imm y knew what it meant and half way down the lone little path he met jimmy with him was unc billy possum peters eyes were very wide open with wonder and the first thing he said was the matter with sammy jay jimmy skunk grinned and unc billy shook his head sadly though if peter had looked sharply he would have seen a twinkle in unc billys eyes poor sammy jay said unc billy in the mournful est tones poor sammy jay hes foolish in his haid peter hes foolish in his haid oh cried peter do you really think so unc billy I 1 thought he was just terribly excited unc billy winked at jimmy S skunk kunk as he said iah bah ah dont know about the excitement brer rabbit but when people talk about great big claws in mouth ah certney think there is something the matter if you ask m me e ah think brer jay done gone PP craz crazy poor sammy jay said peter to himself as he hopped away to find out what other people thought poor sammy jay I 1 guess unc billy must be right and he really is crazy he cant talk straight so he must be crazy and all the rest of that day peter told everyone he met that sammy jay had gone crazy D T W burgess service |