The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-24

and sent me out to play"
Striped Chipmunk knew perfectly
we'll that that was just nonsense. but
Striped Chipmunk learned a long time
8 that when you are Just bubbling
right over with good feeling there is
fun in saying and doing foolish things,
and that is just how he was feeling.
So he a along the old rail fence on
one side of the Long Lane saying fool
ish things and cutting up foolish cap
ers just because he felt SO good. and
all the time seeing all that those
bright little eyes Of his could take in.
Now Striped Chipmunk and the
Merry Little Breezes Of Old Mother
West Wind are great friends. very
great friends indeed. Almost every
morning they have a grand frolic to-
gether. But this morning the Merry
Little. Breezes hadn't come over to the
old stone wall where Striped Chip
munk makes his home. Anyway. they
hadnt come at the usual time. Strip
ed Chipmunk had waited a. little while
and then. because he was feeling so
good. he decided to take a run down
the Long Lane to see If anything new
had happened there. That is how 1t
happened that when n of the Merry
Little Breezes did go to look for him.
and was terribly anxious to find him
to ask him to come to the help of
Grandfather Frog, he was nowhere to
be found.
But Striped Chipmunk didn't know
anything about that. He scampered
along the top rails Of the old fence,
Jumped up OH top of a post and sat
up to wash his face inc hands. for
Striped Chipnlunk is very neat and
cannot bear to he the least bit dirty.
F1e looked up and winkcd at or Mis-
tab Buzzard sailing round and round
way, way up in the blue, blue sky.
He chased his own tail round AMI
round until he nearly fell off of the
post. He made a wry face in the
direction of Redtail the Hawk, whom
he could see sitting in the top Of a
Meadows. He scoldel Bowser the
Hound. who happened 10 come trot-
ting up the Long Lane, and didn't
stop scolding until Bowser was out Of
sight. Then he kicked up his heels
and whisked along the old fence
again.
Half way across a shaky old rail he
suddenly stopped. His bright eyes
had seen something that filled him
with curiosity. quite as much curiosity
as Peter Rabbit would have had. 1t
was a piece Of string. Yes. sir. 1t was
a piece Of string. Now Striped Chip
munk often had, found pieces Of
string. SO there was nothing particu-
larly interesting in the string itself.
What did interest him and make him
very. curious was the fact that. this
piece of string kept moving. Every
few seconds it gave a little jerk. Who
ever heard of a piece of string moving
all by itself? Certainly Striped Chip
munk never had. He couldn't under
stand it.
For a few minutes he watched it
from the top rail of the old fence.
Then he scurricd down to the ground,
and, a few steps at a time, stopping
to watch sharply between each little
run. he drew neare and nearer to
that queer-acting string. 1t gave him
q funny feeling inside to see a string
acting like that, so he was very care.
full mo- to get too near. He looked
at It from one side. then ran around
and looked at it from the other side.
At last he got where he could see that
n end of the string was under an
old board. and then he began to un-
d%erstand. OF course. there was some
body hiding under that. old board and
Jerking the string.
Striped Chipmunk sat down and
scratched his head thoughtfully. Who.
ever was pulling that string couldn't
he very big or they would never have
been able to crawl under that old
board. therefore he needn't he afraid.
Striped Chipnnunk's eyes. He seized
the other end. of the string and began
to pull. Such a jerking and yauking