Show tittle lif stories af C nari es M ar bea lim ra thorn fon conw W C ca burgess 33 EVERYBODY HUNTS FOR FOB HONEY SUCH a funny time as there was in the green forest AU all or nearly all the little people who wear fur went about with their heads up until you would have thought that their necks would have ached perhaps they did but no one seemed to care only jimmy skunk and prickly porky went about their business just as usual when they met their neighbors gazing up into tree tops they would laugh and say to themselves how foolish what did it all mean why just this everybody was hunting for the storehouse of busy bee yes sir that is just what everybody but prickly porky and jimmy skunk vas iras doing and the funny part is that chat no one wanted any one else to know what he was doing yet everybody knew you see it was this way buster bear who had come to live in the green forest is very very fond of honey buster is so big and has such great cruel looking claws and such long sharp leeth ibeth and such a deep fierce sounding growl that nearly all the little people who lived in the green forest or sometimes came up from the green meadows to visit there were afraid very much afraid of him jimmy skunk jimmy afraid of anybody now it happens that buster bear had given reddy fox a terrible scare when reddy was trying to catch jumper the hare and jumper ha had d wished that he could do something in return for buster buster had asked jumper to keep his eyes open for the storehouse of busy bee for he was very very hungry tor for some come honey and jumper had gladly promised that he would though he think there was much chance that he would find it because you know busy bee usually chooses a hollow hig high gh up in a tree and juniper jumper cannot climb trees sammy jay had heard all this and straightaway sa sammy ammy had made up his mind that he would find that honey and tell buster bear and so make buster bear his friend then he remembered how terribly frightened reddy fox had been when he met Buster bear sammy had bad made fun of reddy and called him bad names and so they were anything but friends but now that he had had his fun at freddys expense sammy wanted to make up with reddy you know they are both scamps scalps and usually it is best for scamps scalps to be friends here was a chance to make up with reddy ile he would tell reddy how he could make buster bear his friend by finding some honey for him and reddy would be so grateful that he would forget his quarrel with sammy it all worked out as sammy had planned reddy was so much afraid of buster bear that he was willing to do almost anything to make him his friend so when sammy told him that he knew a way reddy wanted to know what it was sammy told him and reddy started off right away with his head tipped back looking up in the tree tops tor for signs of busy bee sammy jay buckled cuc kled for sammy meant to find that honey himself and he knew that reddy fox being unable to climb would have very little chance to find it but reddy is smart yes sir he is smart he knew just as well as sammy did that he much chance for finding that store of honey himself so he went to happy jack squirrel and to chatterer the red squirrel irrel who knew all the hollow trees and promised them that if they would find the one where busy bee was storing her honey and would tell him he would promise not to try to catch them any more they wondered what reddy could want with honey but of course they agreed to hunt tor for the hollow tree with the honey then they discovered jumper the hare looking up in the tree tops and he told them how he be was hunting for ho honey ney tor for buster bear right awa away y they guessed why reddy wanted it and made up their minds that they would tell buster themselves if they found it and so make him their friend of course news like that travels and pretty soon everybody who was afraid of buster was hunting tor for honey 0 T W burgess service |