| Show story for the children at bedtime by MARY GRAHAM BONNER what in the world Is the trouble asked a sq squirrel with a bushy tall who happened to bo be near a place in the woods where he saw a little girl was crying my A Y nae name la Is maliana Mali aUa said the little littie girl and ive lost my oh oh oh ive lost my then she sobbed and sobbed bobbed and say another word pretty soon one of them said lets leta ask our old friend mr giant to suggest some way ot of stopping ma halla ballu from crying oil oh said mahalla lIa hallA between her abs mobs lie he may eat cat me up and stop my crying that way nut but ive lost and then she burst out crying again doar dear me no said the squirrel who had suggested the blont lie ile la Is the modest kindest giant you can ielne ig lne all the other who had come around too to seo see what was the trouble said sad y squirrel Is perfectly right what lie says Is so the giant ii 13 very kind hind yes continued the first squirrel who had spoken to her or bushy squirrel as lie he was called lie he Is our best friend lie lives in a cave just tit a little way off and whenever we go to call on him ho ha filom w nuts to v eat and sends home nuts to our mothers and fathers ile he tells us wonderful stories of his adventures lies iles as big as the cave but he can curl up way inside 1 if im A r 1 0 o ina IN F a V 44 4 4 T j A ass followed by an enormous Enor moir giant whery none of the real people will bother him lies iles afraid if he came forth put him in a circus and he docs doe love tile woods so much whir b ays the rel that when the circus comes to the town nearby the only thing he misses about it Is the peanuts and he wishes for them sowe can have them that Is how kind he Is lies iles always thinking of others mahalla had stopped crying and had decided the giant must be indeed very wonderful if the squirrels were so fond of him film and so BO she let them go off for him in a few moments they came hopping and jumping along followed by an enormous giant some of the little squirrels were perched on his shoulders and when lie he sat down they hopped and scampered all over him the trouble little girl he asked and his voice was so very kind ive lost my six wild strawberries Mali alln answered six wild strawberries squealed the squirrels you have cried ov over or those we can get you more than six nut but they were in a basket of sweet grass said SIa Bla halla and sum a dear friend gave me the basket oh said mr giant we will have ha ve to find that anil and he be looked all around and down behind a fern was the missing baskit basket with the strawberries ber then the giant and till nil the squirrels aels set to work and gathered many wild strawberries so that Ma mahallah hallas basket was filled when she left them she loved wild strawberries almost better than any fruit anil and she was very happy about having such a lot of them the giant was happy because he had proved to ro ono one more little girl that a giant could be a dear friendly soul anti and the Is were happy that they had heen been the ones to bring nil all this about so go you see although the story began with tears it ended very happily 0 1 nw union |
