The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-05
Bed Time Stories
A NEW HOME AT LAST.

Johnny Chuck was missed from his
old homo on the Green Meadows. IT
he had known how much he was miss
ed he certainly would have tried to
20 back for at least a call on his old
neighbors. There had been great SUR
that Jimmy Skunk was living IN
Johnny's old house, and at first some
of the little meadow people were In
clined to look at Jimmy a wee bit
distrustfully when he told o john
ny Chuck had given away his nome.
But when Johnny sem back word by
the Merry Little Breezes that 1T was
true they believed Jimmy ana
forgot the unpleasant things that they
had begun to hint at about him. But
they one and all thought that Johnny
Chuck must be crazy. Yes, sir, they
thought tina Johnny Chuck must be
crazy. They were sure Of it when
the Merry Little Breezes brought
word of how Johnny had started out
to see the world.
But all were so busy about their
own affairs in the beautiful bright
springtime that they couldn't spend
much time wondering about Johnny
Chuck. They missed him every time
they passed his old house and then
forgot him; that is, most of the little
meadow people did. Peter Rabbit
didn't. Peter used to stop every day
to gossip with Johnny Chuck and tell
him all the news. And now that
Johnny Chuck was no longer there
Peter missed him greatly. Jimmy
Skunk was always asleep or of some.
where. Besides, he was such a trav-
eller that he knew all the news all
most as soon as Peter himself.
The Merry Little Rreezes told Peter
%faot Tohp,,1- ChpnE voc still m tho
Green Madows. hunting for a new
home. so Peter made up his mind that
just as soon as Johnny got settled
Peter would hunt him up and call.
You see he dreamed that John
ny would leave the Green Meadows.
and he thought that of curse the
Merry Little Breezes would tell him
just where Johnny Chuck's new house
was whenever it was built. But there
is where Peter made a mistake. The
Merry Little Rreezes are the friends of
all the little meadow aud forest peo-
pie, but they would't be very long if
they told everything that they found
Out.
Their merry tongues they guard full
we'll
And things they shouldn't never tell;
For long ago they learned the way
To keep a secret night and day.
And So when they found johnny
Chuck's new house i'll the L of
Farmer Browns old orchard they
promised Johnny that they wouldn't
tell anybody, and they didn't. So it
was a long time before any one else
found out what had become of john
ny Chuck. for no n thought of look
ing in the corner Of the old orchard.
The Merry Little Breezes used to
come every day and bring Johnny
Chuck the news and he and Polly
Chuck would laugh and tickle as they
thought of Peter Rabbit hunting and
hunting and never finding them.
Then one morning as Johnny
Chuck sat on his doorstep half doing
In the u his heart filled with con-
tentment, he happened to look up
straight into two sharp eyes peering
down at him from among the leaves
Of the apple tree under which he had
built his house.
He knew those eyes. They were
such sharp eyes that they were un-
pleasant. He didn't even have to look
for the blue and white coat of the
owner to know who had found his
snug home. But he pretended to keep
right on doing. and pretty soon the
owner of the eyes disappeared with
out making q. sound.
G oh. dear" sighed Johnny Chuck,
the whole world will know where We
live now. for that was Sammy Jay
Then his face frightened as he added:
Anyway. he didn't see Polly Chuck
and he doesn't know anything about
her. so Ill keep twice as sharp a
watch as before