Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-06-17
Children's Evening Story
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BRIGATEYEs AND JENNIE CHIP.

BRlGATEYEs AND JENNIE CHIP.
MUNk.
1t happened one day that after
Brighteyes Pigg had finished combing
her hair, and had put on nice, pink
ribbon, which she tied in two, big
bows, that she heard knock at the
door. There was no one home, for
her mamma had gone down to the five
and ten cent store to get wash
boiler; Or. Pigg was seeing some
friends in the hospital. and Buddy was
off playing ball with Bully and Baw-
ly, the two frogs, and some others of
his friends. So Brighteyes went to
the door herself
And whom do you suppose she
found there?
Well don't believe you'd guess in
sixteen minutes, SO I'll tell you. It
was Jennie Chipmunk, the little girl
who lived with Grandpa and Grand
ma Lightfoot, the squirrel grandpar-
ents OF Johnnie and Billie bushytail,
you know.
Jennie was smiling so that she
showed her pretty white teAh, and
she was humming little song, one
Of those she always sang when she
washed the dishes This is the song,
and you are allowed to sing it If you
have helped your mamma dry the
dishes. 1t goes to the tune Of ooh fie
lum diddle daddy de dunn" which is
very nice tune IL you can sing it.
Anyhow, Jennie Chipmunk sang:
II love to wash the dishes,
al. And also dry them, too.
It makes your paws so soft and
white,
really think-don't you?
Some folks are awful fussy,
When e'er they dust or sweep.
They'd rather pile the dirt all up
In corners. In heap
"But just love my Homework.
For making beds sigh.
/ love to wash the tablecloth
And make a cherry pie
/ knead the bread and bake 1t,
starch and iron the clothes,
/ wash the windows Saturday"
That's enough my goodness
knows" finished Brighteyes for Jen-
ME Chipmunk.' the little guinea pig
girl went on, II should think you'd be
tired with all that work! Come on and
we'll take a walk in the woods"
So the; two started, after Bright
eyes had locked the door and put the
key under the mat, where her mother
could find 1t when she came back
from the five and ten cent store,
where she had gone to get diamond
ring--no, mean dishpan-no,
wash boiler-there, I've got it right
at last. " @".
Well, Jennie and Brighteyes walked
on through the woods and sometimes
they found, huckleberries to eat, or
they found pennyroyal, which is a
nice plant to SMELL and it keeps the
mosquitoes away when they want to
stay away. And the two children
found some; blackberries, and they
found spearmint and peppermint and
then they got In a field where there
was a lovely apple tree and they
were just eating few of the apples
and putting some in their pockets, to
take home, when, all of sudden they
heard a voice calling to them from be.
hind the tree.
Here what are you doing with
apples?",'. cried the voice, and oh, such
a harsh ugly, cross voice as it was!
It.fairly made Brighteyes and Jennie
shiverss ~ rs:
First they thought It was the man
who owned the tree, and then Bright
eyes remembered that he was the
kind farmer whose cows she and Bud
dy had once driven home, when he
had cut his foot. and she knew he
wouldn't speak so cross to her. Then
she thought it was a bad hoy, but she
looked, and so did Jennie, and they
couldn't Sc any: boy. Then the, voice
growled out again: E
Here, you. leave those !, apples
alonen and goodness sakes alive. and
a. can of tomato soup! from behind
the apple tree, there appeared the bad.
ugly, burglar fox! Oh, has frightened
Brighteyes and Jennie ~Chipmunk
weret They fairly trembled and shiy-
cred, Though it was hot day!
"Ah! hal" cried the fox curling
back his lip; to show his ugly teeth,
and blinking his eyes as fast as "a
moving picture goes when it skips
along very quickly. "Ah! hal Now l
have caught you! for taking my ap-
pies ?''ss-z $780, ~
D"We--wes didn't know they were
your apples said Jennie. >1
mo matter about that said the
bad fox. do you know what am go
ing to do to you?" u
NO., answered Brighteyes. What
are you going to do to us. good Mr..