The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-21
THE ADVENTURES
OF BUSTER MUNK

Buster Munk was all the time getting
into trouble. That Is Why he was called
Buster. His real name was Chip Nuhk
His cousin, Red Squirrel, had read apout
Snster Brown and the trouble he was al
WAYS in. and one day when Chip MunK
came home with q nip in one OF his ears
and a pinch OF fur out of his tall, done
by a robin who found him too near her
nest, Red Squirrel said: You are all th9e
while IN trouble, like Buster BroWn.
think we ought TO call you Buster, anu
SO they did.
The leaves and through the bushes. swift
and still as n little striped brown streah,
when he came out near a cabin puit III
the woods with a little clearing ABOUT IT,
He stopped and lifted up one foot, anu
shifted with his little nose, and snapped
his bright eyes and chartered and scol.ded.
There was an old hen md some chickens
eating from a shallow dish.
Buster shifted and he thought he smelt
apples; he looked and he thought he saw
apples.
Nov. II he had waited until the hen went
away he would nave been all right but
didn't I tell you he was always getting into
rouble?
He didn't wait, BIT. ran closer and saw
II was an apple the hen was pecking.
Then he went nearer yet, and nearer;
then he made a rush and grabbed the ap-
pie IN his mouth and started off with IT.
Myl What a scattering of chickens there
was. they scampered and scurried away
like so many little yellow plush balls i,
But the old hen was mad, and she peeked
at Buster and lust got a bill full or fur
from his tail. Pulling ont this fur by the
old hen caused Buster to run faster still,
holding the apple in his mouth.
The old hen raced after him with her
wings all spread out and making a cackling
noise that frightened Buster, and he scam
pered up the first tree he came to and
away out on one Of the little limbs.
The hen flew at the tree and up as far
as she could, but had to give it up and
80 back scolding to her chickens, calling
them back TO finish the rest of their lunch.
Buster lay fiat on the limb Of the tree
ranting, for he was almost out OF breath
from running and climbing so fast.
Then the limb of the tree he was on
began to swing up and down and he could
hardly hold ON.
And sometime. or someone said; ooh
Buster thought he heard it. anyway. He
thought il was the tree that said it. \
] don't believe that trees can talk,
Trees bark and trees bough and trees
root, but l never heard of trees talking.
But this tree was a whispering elm.
And it may have been the wind.
anyway, that is what Buster thought he
heard.
He started to make some sancy reply,
forgetting he had the apple In his mouth.
and when he opened his mouth the apple
fell out.
You know told you he was all the
while getting into trouble.
Well, that apple fell right down on the
back of a partridge and startled him so
he flew off with a. w-h-i-r-r-i-n-g of his
wings and such a roar It made Buster
lump right off The limb right up in the
air; the wind blew the limb from under
aim and down he dropped right into a
'9 The Hornets rsst flushed out and strung him
oefore he coui1 get on his legs and run
away. oh. NV they did sting him.
When he fbally got back home he had a