Evening star., 1914-04-24
Everybody Hunts for Honey.

Such funny time as there was in the
Green Forest that beautiful, bright
spring. AL or nearly all. the little peo-
pie who wear fur went about with their
heads up until you would have thought
that their enecks would have ached. Per-
Only Jimmy Skunk and Prickly -Porky
the Porcupine went about their business
just as usual. When they met their neigh
bors gazing up into tree tops they would
laugh and say to themselves: How
foolish.'
What did it all mean? Why, just this
Everybody was hunting for the store
house OF Busy Bee. Yes, sir, that Is just
what everybody but Prickly Porky and
Jimmy Skunk was doing. And the funny
part is that no one wanted any one else
to know what he was doing. yet every
body knew. You see, it was this way;
Buster Bear, who had come to live In the
Green Forest, Is very, very fond Of
honey. Buster is SO big and has such
great cruel looking claws and such long
sounding growl. that nearly all the little
people who lived in the Green Forest.
or sometimes came up from the Green
Meadows to visit there, were afraid
very much afraid Of him. Jimmy Skunk
wasn't. You know, Jimmy isn't afraid
Of anything or anybody. Prickly Porky
wasn't. He came from the same Great
Woods that Buster came from, and
he had long ago taught Buster to
have very great respect for the thou
sand little spears he always carries with
him. Jumper the Hare wasn't afraid, be-
cause he also was once a neighbor to
Buster In the Great Woods, and he knew
that Buster knew that he couldn't catch
Jumper. no matter how he tried. But
everybody else was afraid. very, very
much afraid.
Now it happens that Buster Bear had
given Reddy Fox a terrible scare when
Reddy was trying to catch Jumper the
Hare, and Jumper had wished that he
could do something in return for Buster.
Buster had asked Jumper to keep his
eyes open for the storehouse of Busy
Bee, for he was very, very hungry for
some honey, and Jumper had gladly
promised that he would. though he didn't
think there was much chance that he
would find it. because. you know, Busy
Bee usually chooses a hollow high up in
a tree. and Jumper cannot climb trees.
Sammy Jay had heard all this and
straightway Sammy had made up his
tell Buster Bear, and so make Buster his
friend. Then he remembered how ter
ribly frightened Reddys Fox had been
when he met Buster Bear. Sammy had
made fun Of Reddy and called him bad
names, and so they were anything but
friends. But now that he had had his
fun at Reddy's, expense, Sammy wanted
to make up with Reddy. .ls-You know they
are both -scamps, and, usually it is best
for scamps to be friends. Here was a
chance to make up with Reddy. He
would tell Reddy how, he could make
Buster Bear hrs friend: by finding some
honey for him, and Beddy would be $50
grateful that he would forget his quarrel
with Sammy.
1t all worked out as Sammy had
planned. Reddy was SO much afraid of
Buster Bear that he was willing to do
almost anything to make him his friend.
so when Sammy told him that he knew
way. Reddy wanted to know what it
was. Sammy told him and Reddy start
ed of right away with his head tipped
back looking up In the tree tops for
signs Of Busy Bee Sammy Jay chuckled,
for Sammy meant to find that honey
himself. and he knew that Reddy Fox,
little chance to find it. But Reddy Is
smart. Yes. sir. he is smart. He knew
just as well as Sammy did that he hadn't
much chance of finding that store of
honey himself, so he went to Happy
Jack Squirrel and to Chatterer the Red
Squirrel, who know all the hollow trees.
and promised them that If they would
her honey and would tell him. he would
promise not to try to catch them any
more. They wondered what Reddy could
want of honey. but. of course. they
agreed to hunt for the hollow tree with
the honey. Then they discovered Jumper
the Hare looking up in the tree tops, and
he told them how he was hunting for
honey for Buster Bear. Right away they
guessed why Reddy wanted 1t, and made
up their minds that they would tell Bus
ter themselves If they found it, and SO
make him their friends OF course, news
like that travels. and pretty soon every
body who was afraid of Buster was hunt
for bOnAv