The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-03
E TIME STORY
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t@ssNs NahN@s
Sammy jay had spread a false re
port all through the suow-covercd
Green Forest and over the glistenins
Green Meadows. Tic had told every
one he met that Farmer Browns. boy
had killed cor Mrs. Grouse and TAX
en- her home for his dinner. Now. it
was true that he had taken her home,
but. il wasn't true that he had killed
her. You see. he had found her very
weak and helpless under the hard,
icy crust that Jack Frost had made
while she was asleep under tho
and which she couldn't break. SAM
my jay and Peter Rabbit had both
seen her carried away and both knew
that she hadn't been killed. But !,
tul story, to say that she had been
killed. and Sammy Jay dearly loves
to tell bad news. Besides. he is al
WAYS ready to think evil of others.
III he didn't kill her. then he will
Kill her when he gets. her home." said
right to say that nc has killed her"
So he few about spreading that
dreadful false story and actually en-
Joyed telling the dreadful news.
OF course, all Of the friends of Mrs.
rouse felt terribly. Some of them
Peter Rabbit say and he told them
sammy Jays story was not true--that
Mrs. Grouse had not been killed. But
he had to admit that she had been
carried away by Farmer Crowns boy,
and to her friends this ecne almost
as bad, for most of them were very
much afraid of Farmer Browns boy
n quite willing. to believe the very
Tor. poor Mrs. Grouse and said how
Dreadful and how sad it was and how
they should miss her and how, they
hoped thai some day something
dreadful would happen to Farmer
Browns. hoy.
But Mrs. Grouse didn't know any
thing about this. At first. she had
had been picked up and knew that
Farmer Browns hoy held her a pris-
oner. But after a. little his hands~felt
very warm. for she was shivering
with cold. and they seemed very gen
tie. And then. she didn't know why.
she wasn't afraid n She Just
,cudd!ed right down and felt sure that
nothing dreadful was going to happen.
And nothing dreadful did happen.
Oh, my. no! She was taken up to
Farmer Browns house and right in
side, where it was as warm as in SUM
me- and where Farmer Browns boys
mother stroked her with such gentle
hands and said, you DOR. poor little
bird And then when she was warm
she was taken out to the %hcnhouse
and put in "A. box with plenty Of nice
warm hay there she was left with
all the corn and oats II barley that
she could cat. This was what she
needed most. for YOU know it wa
because she had nothing to eat for so
long. while she was a prisoner under
that dreadful icy crust. that she was
too weak to fly when the crust was
broken.
SO she ate aud ate until she could
eat no more and then nestled down in
the soft. warm hay to sleep. for she
was tired. SO very very tired. And
as she closed her eyes it seemed to
her that she couldn't remember when
she had been ST comfortable, certain
ly not for days and days. And she
could sleep without fear Of Reddv
Fox or Hooty. the Owl or any. other
danger To be sure she was a pris-
pner.-but somehow she didn't mind
Not then. anyway. And-and-well.
Farmer Browns. boy wasn't dreadful
at all; he was rather nice.
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