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Show n't you know better than to rush out into the cold right out of your warm nest? You have to get used to it gradually, you know. It won't bother you so much then. Just don't stay too long. Not to-o-oo lo-o-ng." And he nodded sleepily, and went back to resting his eyes which the bright sun on the snow hurt very much. "Well, what do you . know," Chatter murmured, "Sleepy actually ac-tually woke up and talked to us." "Yes, and we better pay attention atten-tion to what he says, too," Chit-ter Chit-ter replied, "because he really is the very wisest of our feathered friends. Let's just sit right outside on the limb and get a little used' to this cold. Then, maybe, we can go out in it without it hurting our feet." "Well, let's get a nut for our breakfast, and bring it out here to eat it," the more practical Chatter suggested, and so they By Ruth Headrick One morning, . not long after their meeting with Jimmy and his father, Chitter and Chatter "woke up and looked out on a world so changed they could hardly be-leive be-leive their eyes. Everything was white and sparkling and truly beautiful. All of the trees were decorated with gleaming silver -white ornaments and the ground was a blanket of ermine with starry glitters all over the top. Long, shiny icicles hung at the edge of the little waterfalls on the Brook and the whole world shown with a brightness neither of them had ever seen before. "Chitter," Chatter cried in an exciting voice. "Do come and look. It snowed last night, and the world is all new." "Oh, my goodness," Chitter exclaimed, ex-claimed, looking over Chatter's shoulder. "Isn't that lovely. Let's go right out and romp in it." And without waiting for any answer, he dashed out onto the limb in front of their home and into the snow piled high on the limb. "Oh my! Oh my goodness OH MY GOODNESS!" he cried out. hurried back into their storeroom at the very back of their nest, and each came back with one of the nuts they had stored for just this time of the year, and sat down to watch the Sun creep across ac-ross the 'snow, turning all the woods to a fairyland of loveliness on the very first day of Old Man Winter's reign. backing as swiftly as he possibly could, and bumping into the cautiously caut-iously approaching Chatter as he came back. "It hurts my feet!! We better not go out there, cause it's cold, just awfully cold." And both our little friends hurried back to their home, and cautiously stuck their little noses out to look again at the new world with the strange stuff all over he ground that hurt their feet. "Who-oo-oo! " exclaimed a voice right over their shoulder, and they looked up at .the Sleepy Owl ."Do- |
