Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-08
LITTLE BEDTIME STORIES.
MORE MISCHIEF.
BY Thornton w. Burgess.
Copyright. 1918, by ]. G. Lloyd
Mischief's like SNOWFALL
Sent rolling down hill:
With every turn it bigger grows
And bigger, bigger still.

| Sammy Jay had started mischief by
telling Reddy Fox where Johnny Chuck s
new house was. If you had asked him
Sammy Jaw would have said that he hadn't
told All that he had said was that he had
happened to be up in Farmer Brown S
old orchard and so had called on Johnny
Chuck in his new house. He knew that
Johnny Chuck wanted to keep that new
house secret, and because Sammy Jay
likes to do mean things he had started
out to tell Johnny's secret just to plague
Johnny Chuck. Reddy Fox was the first
TO come along. and Sammy had told him
Just enough to start Reddy off to hunt
for that new house
Now, Reddy Fox is very SLY, oh, very
sly. He had prefer ded to Sammy Jay
that he knew all the time where Johnny
Chuck was living. When he left Sammy
Jay he had started in the direction of
the Green Meadows just as if he had no
thought of going over to Farmer Browns
old orchard. But Sammy Jay is just as sly
as Reddy Fox. He wasn't fooled for enc
minute not one little minute. He chuck
led to himself as he started to look for
Jimmy Skunk. Then he changed his
mind.
II think I'll go up to the old orchard
myself said Sammy Jay, and away he
flew.
of big apple tree. where he could see
all that went on. 1t wasn't long before
he saw Reddy Fox steal out from the
Green Forest and over to the old orchard.
Reddy was nervous, very nervous. You
see it was broad daylight, and the old
orchard was very near Farmer Browns
house. Reddy knew that he ought to have
waited until night, but he knew that then
Johnny Chuck would be fast asleep. Now
perhaps Johnny Chuck, thinking that no
one knew where he lived, would not be
on watch and he might be able to catch
Johnny So Reddy, with one eye on Farm
err Browns house and one eye on the
watch for some sign of Johnny Chuck,
stole into the old orchard. Every few
steps he would stop and look and listen.
At every little noise he would start nerv
ously. Then Sammy Jay would chuckle
under his breath.
So Reddy Fox crept and tiptoed about
through the old archard. Every minute
he grew more nervous and every minute
he grew more disappointed, for he could
find no sign of Johnny ChuckS house. He
began to think that Sammy Jay had
fooled him, and the very thought made
him grind his teeth. At last he decided to
give it up. He was down in the far cor
ner OF the old orchard now. close by the
old stone wall, and he got all ready to
lump over the old stone wall when he
just happened 10 look on the othef slde
of the big apple tree he was under. and
there was what he was looking for-Johh-
ny Chuck's new house! Johnny Chuck
wasn't in sight, but there was the new
house and Johnny must be either inside
or not far away. Reddy grinned. 1t was
a sly, wicked, hungry grim He fiattened
himself out in the grass behind the big
apple tree.
.Ill give Johnny Chuck the surprise of
his life," muttered Reddy Fox under his
breath.
Now Sammy Jay had been watching all
this time. He knew that Johnny Chuck
was safely inside his house, for Johnny
had seen Reddy when he first came into