The Detroit times., 1916-05-13
LITTLE STORIES FOR BEDTIME
Chatterer Gets a Great Fright.
By rr osN1on w. BURGESS.
Copyright 1919 oy I. W. Bursessb

Chatter~r the Red Squirrel ought
10 have known better. To come
right dov 10 the truth he did know
better. No red squirrel could live
as long - Chattsrer had lived and
rot know better He forgot That
was IL. Chatterer forgot You
know HOY. easy " is TO forget Hail
he troubles In mis- worl4 come from
people forgetting what they know.
guess ! would be nearer the truth
IL said trat most OF the troubles
NJ his world come from forgetting
A great teaI more often II ia what
peouie know but forget. not what
they doa Z know, that gets them
into scrspe=
Now Chattere- knew perfectly
that Il Is a crazy thing and nothing
Jess for a squirrel TO poke his head
into a hole without first making
sure the. no one is in there. al least
no one whom h does not care 10
meet. Ordinarily he wouldn't have
done such thing But ne was 90
eager for a taste OF fresh eggs and
so sure that he would have those
,resh eggs IL he could but find the
nest OF TInsoms Bluebird that he
was tn too much Of a hurry 10 be
careful Then. too. be was little
excited. He had been so sure that
winsome would make his home in
The same hollow in one OF the apple
trees OF the Old Orchard. which be
had usec FOR several years that ne
was quite upset when be found out
that WiLsome had given up the old
rome ~ course that meant that
he was building OF already had built
a nest somewhere else.
III I'm 10 have those eggs I've
got TO frd them pretty soon. NUT
tered Cta'.erer That's mean
trick for Winsome to fool his old
neighbors that way. He might have
said something about changing his
home Queer how stingy some PEG
pie can re. What IL I should steal
two or IRE. esgs from Mrs. Win
some' She could lay some more u
IL was funny TO hear him. You
would have thought that Winsoms
Rluebird and Mrs. winsome actuall,
had wronged hiri and not that he
had planned and was still planning
10 wrong them. u sometimes is tina
way with people who wrong others
When their plans fail they actuall,
try TO maize themselves believe tina
wrong has been done them. Nov
az you know the little people o
the Green Forest and OF the Cree
Meadows and o. the Old Orchar'
and of tire Smiling Pool look on liz
Is a sor; OF game Of. wits. The,
| get terribly angry when one OF thei
number .nakes trouble for another
but each one knows In his own hear
shat he ought TO be smart enougl
10 keep my one else from maxim
| trouble for him, and l suspect tina
each ono feels that ne II smar
enough. The smaller ones all kno'
tina, sore OF the larger ones hun
them In order TO live and 80 the
| do not feel toward these hunter
| az all as they do toward man an
those hunters who hunt when the
| do not need to.
Chatterer the Red Squirrel IL on
who al al times is given TO gettin
| into mirchief, and every once In
while he slips from harmless mil
chief into actual wrong-doing. O
course tre-e isn't the least excus
n the world for chatterer when h
| steals the eggs OF his feathere
neighbori. He doesn't need ther
| for food II II the same way wit
nanny ray and Blacky the Grow
30 In hunting for the home OF VIII
some plnebird 20 steal those egg
he felt sure were In II Chattere
was doing something quite unfoi
givab'e IT. the eyes OF his neighbors
|. INT tha, didn't trouble Chattere
N the 'sast He wanted those eegs
! Ne was provoked 10 think that Win