Show tittle little 0 stories P jor abw q e alf I 1 M I 1 K ld thor thom nf conw c gess CHATTERER AND SAMMY JAY QUARREL when people lose their tempers oh what kat a sorry they call each other dreadful names and sometimes scratch and bite the merry little breezes ran and hid themselves away when chatterer his temper lost and so did sammy jay it really was too dreadful it quite spoiled the day for all the little people who were within sound of their voices you see sammy jay had discovered that it was chatterer and not a trap set by farmer browns boy that had given him such a fright at farmer browns corncrib corn crib and right away temper just A J lit in a minute he be was out again with his terrible gun gua boiled over chatterer had his mouth so full of corn that he say a word but he could run and run he did scampering across farmer browns dooryard to the shelter of the old stone wall on the edge of the old orchard with sammy after him film screaming thief thief thief at the top of his lungs my mf gracious what a racket exclaimed farmer browns boy as he opened the door that jay is making such a fuss that I 1 should think there was a fox about he put his milk pails down and stepped back into the house in a minute he was out again with his terrible gun in his hands he went straight to the old stone wall where only a few minutes before reddy fox had been hiding and it was well for reddy that he had slipped away the tee minute sammy jay began to scream at chatterer farmer browns boy looked disappointed when he saw no signs of reddy then he went over to the little house of bowser the hound and unchained bowser bowser wagged his tail and yelped with delight when he saw the gun for he dearly loved to hunt he ran ahead back to the old orchard and almost at once his great deep voice told all within hearing that his wonderful nose had found the tracks of reddy fox 1 I thought so said farmer browns boy 1 I thought there had been a fox here then he sighed for he would have liked nothing better than to go hunt for reddy but there were the empty milk pails and farmer browns boy is not the kind who runs away for pleasure when there is work to td be done he called bowser and chained him up again and then went to the barn bam sammy jay had flown away as soon as he saw farmer browns boy and his terrible gun chatterer had hidden in the old stone wall where he safely stored away the corn with which his cheeks had been stuffed As soon as farmer browns boy had gone to the barn to milk the cows sammy jay slipped back to the old orchard to look for chatterer and his temper improved a bit he soon saw chatterer running along the old wall and once more began to scream thief thief and now that his mouth was empty chatterer could reply and you know chatterer has one ot of the worst tongues ot of all the little people of the green forest thief yourself he screamed back thief yourself you sto stole ole my corn it your corn any more than its mine screamed sammy 1 I told you about it in the first place thief thief thief I 1 and from that they tell fell to calling each other worse things the old orchard never had heard such a quarrel nevert never it was dread dreadful full an all day long they kept it up twice farmer browns boy came down to I 1 see if that fox had come back and 1 he scratched his head and wondered 1 what all the fuss was about at last sammy jay had a thought im going straight over to the green forest to tell shadow the weasel where you are living he 1 cried suddenly when he finds you I 1 you wont steal any more corn or be I 1 so greedy that you wont let other people have a share |