Evening star., 1920-11-01
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chatterer SuIks and Plots.
ny THORNTON W. BURGESS.
4, Don't b sulky. 1t won't bar,
} But viii spoil the. brightest day.
Old Mother Natu,

| Old Mother Nature
! Chatterer the Red Squirrel. the most
impudent small person in all the
Green Forest. IL somewhat given to
suiking. You will find that people
who think themselves smart are in
cHned to sulk when some one gets the
better of them. cb.+t.r.r :. 49,
kind. 10 'his
,ma.,ahad HE had though: it great fun to be
run OF. him for being fooled by little
Whitefoot the Wood Mouse Rut
Wnen Buster got even with him by
ssnakins him out of the top of a tail
tee, sving him one of the worst
didn't help matters any to know
that Blacky the Grow saw the whole
a,.;n anair blacky had happened to be
nying over Just as Buster started up
me tree after Chatterer. and, OF
course. he had stopped to see what
was going on. No one loves excite
ment better than does Blacky the
1t tickled Blacky to SEQ Chatterer in
trouble. He knew jus, how much
troupie Chatterer SO often makes for
other people. and SO it pleased him
Immensely to see the little red scamp
In trouble himself. When Chatterer
on rather shaky legs. ran away after
being shaken out of that tree by
Buster Bear he heard the hoarse
iaughter OF Blaeky the Grow. and in
ms heart was great bitterness. He
knew that Blacky would tell the story
all through the Green Forest and that
everybody would feel just as Blacky
did: Every one would think that he
had been served just right.
| So Chatterer went of by himself
and sulked: He kept out of sight,
for he couldn't stand having Others OF
whom he had SO often made fun make
fun OF him. People are that way. you
know: And while he sulked he plot
ted. You know what that means. 1t
means making secret plans.
I'll get even with Buster Beor one
of these days. That is what / will do
I'll get even with him." Chatterer kept
muttering over and over to himself
quite forgetting that Buster had
simply punished him for his own i'm
pudence.
! So Chatterer took to following
Buster Bear about, watching for a
I chance to get even. No longer was
his sharp voice heard in the Green
Forest He didn't want to be seen.
he didn't want any one to know that
he was about. And so he Kept that
usually busy tongue of his quiet. For
| the most Of the time he kept in the
trees. coming down to the ground only
when trees were 30 far apart that he
JUMP ITOH one 10 dHOtnoF. 1t
was easier to keep out of sight in
| the trees.
Just how he was going to get even
with Buster Bear he didn't know, but
he felt sure that sooner or later he
would have an opportunity. and he
intended to be ready to make the most
of that opportunity when it did come
So from morning to night he followed
Buster about, all the time sulking
and plotting.
Now all the time he thought that
! no one knew what he was doing But
| in that he was mistaken. There are
many sharp eyes in the Gren Forest,
and no one can hope to move about
| much without being seen by some of
them. None are sharper than those of
Sammy jay. And no one delights more
in finding out what other people are
about than does Sammy.
| OF course. Sammy had heard all
about what had happened to Chatterer
and he had been as tickled as had
for Chatterer the Red equirrel They
are forever quarreling. So when one
morning Sammy caught glimpse OF
Chatterer jumping from one tree tc
another he silently followed to sec
what mischief Chatterer was about
1t didn't take Sammy long to find ou,
that Chatterer was spying on Buster
Bear. Sammy chuckled.
HE is hoping for q chance to ge'
even with Buster" thought Sammy
I'LL keep on eye on him.
| So while Chatterer followed Buster
Bear he in turn was followed by Sam
lmy Jay.
Copyright. 1920, By T. ". Bursess)