Show CHILDRENS BEDTIME STORY by THORNTON W BURGESS THE GREEDY COUSINS NOW OW that jack frost had opened the chestnut burrs and the hickory husks the merry little breezes saw a chance to help some of their friends ever since they hart had been un arble to get anyone to play with them they had wished and wished that they might find some work to do everyone else at least nearly every one else was so very busy making ready tor for winter that the merry little breezes breeze 13 were beginning to feel just a wee bit ashamed to be doing nothing but play piny all day long it was the sight of those open burrs and husks that gave one of them an idea 1 I tell you what we can help chat the red bed squirrel and happy jack and striped chipmunk and it will be great faunl cried the merry little B breezes breezes how asked all the others crowd ing around eagerly look up in the top of that tall k X 1117 those hose ari are my shouted happy jack and his voice was very harsh and angry chestnut tree and tell me what you see cried the merry little breeze who had first spoken all the other merry little breezes looked up in the top of the tall chestnut tree and for a few minutes no one said a word at last one of them spoke 1 I dont see anything that I 1 seen every day lately except that jack frost has pinched open the burrs so that we can see the brown nuts he must have done that last night just it iti I 1 cried the first merry little breeze yesterday those burrs were closed but today they are open and that gives us a chance to help the squirrel cousins dont you see now but the other merry little breezes see and they said so watch met shouted the first merry little breeze and raced over to the tall chestnut tree he shook the topmost branch on which were several wide open burrs and out fell the brown nuts and rattled down through the leaves to the ground all around happy jack squirrel who was just starting to c limb climb the tree ne ile keep on climbing no indeed without so much as a look up to see what had made mad e those brown nuts fall happy jack scampered after them you see he was afraid that it if he left them lying there his cousin chatterer tir or his oth er cousin little striped chipmunk bould come along and find them so happy floppy jack scurried about hunting for those brown nuts the merry little breeze had shaken down and when he be found them he hurried to hide bids them the other merry little breezes saw right away what the first merry little breeze meant by a way in which to help the squirrel cousins they would just shaketha sha kethe the brown nuts down and save happy jack and chatterer the trouble of climbing the tall trees to gather the nuts it would not only save them trouble and real work but also be a great deal of fun they always did like to shake trees and now it would be more fun than ever because it would really and truly tru ly be helping others ci so each one hastened to shake a branch and the brown nute nut f fell ell and rattled down like raindrops now chatterer the red bed squirrel had been passing on his way to a 0 hickory tree butchen but when he heard those brown nuts rattling among the leaves on the ground he caroe came hurrying over to see what it meant and his bright eyes sparkled as he saw so many nuts on the ground just waiting to be picked up and carried away he darted forward to fill his cheeks with them only to have nappy happy jack the gray cray squirrel rush at him angrily those are my shouted lap hap py jackard jack Jac kand and his voice was very harsh and angry they are botill screamed chatterer they dont belong to anyone until they have been picked up I 1 have just as much right to them as you have you dont own the tree I 1 guess if I 1 want them ill take them and you cant stop me 1 I found the tree first and they belong to met me I 1 barked floppy jack if you dont go away and leave them alone ill make you jou sor sorry ryll jack ground his long sharp teeth I 1 in a way not at till all pleasant to hear the merry little breezes stopped shaking the branches of the tall chestnut tree and looked down in dismay it seemed to them there were trees enough for both but here were these two cousins so greedy that they were nere quarreling and growing glowing angrier every minute it I 1 was quite dreadful 0 1833 1933 by ayt T W burgess service |