The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-27
BURGESS BED-
 TIME STORIES
By THORNTON ". BURGESS

some things we Know but can't e1-
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 Just how we know we can't make
 plain. Johnny Chuch.
 Johnny Chdck says it Is just feel tngs"-and Johnny knows. He has had them many times and rarely have they proved wrong. He has grown Co have great deal of faith in his feel ings. and he has had reason to.
 Johnny Chuck is a member of the Squirrel family. Perhaps you didn't know that. but 1t is true. He is & distant cousin of Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel and all the other Squir- rels. Like all the other members or the family, Johnny believes in pre- pairing for winter, and he begins early.
 Early one morning some time be- fore tho first visit of Jack Frost 1t happened that Peter Rabbit chanced to bo passing near Johnny Chuck's house. Johnny wasn't in sight, but 1t looked to Peter very much as 1T there was some fresh sand on Johnny'S doorstep.
 That is queer" though Peter. "l wonder If anybody has been trying to, dig Johnny Chuck out of his hdme?'
 He hoped nearer and as he did so he saw some sand thrown out ot Johnny Chuek's dootway. Peter was moro surprised than ever. He pricked up his long ears and sat up to stare at that doorway quite as if he never had seen it before.
 Some one is inside there digging now" thought Peter. q wonder who It can be?"
 Just then some more sand was AF Johnny Chuck himself appeared. Johnny came out and sat up on his doorstep. He grinned at Peter. |. Good morning, Peter" said he. 'Why are you staring at me so?"
 Peter gave 8 little sigh of re- lief. "I was startled" he confessed. T saw some sand thrown out of your doorway and thought some one was digging you out. You must haVe been doing tho digging yourself" Johnny Chuck nodded. T was said he.
 What for?" demanded Peter. T thought you completed that house last spring"
 50 did I, Peter. So did r. re- piled Johnny Chuck. T didn't know then that we were going to have such cold winter"
 Gold winter@ exclaimed Peter and his big ears stood up straighter than ever. Cold winter! Who says we are going to have cold winter T do," retorted Johnny Chuck II say we are going to have long, cold, hard winter, and I'm getting ready for 1t; I'm making my house little deeper, so as to be sure or being beyond the reach Of jack Frost"
 But winter Is long way off" protested Peter. How can you know what sort of winter 1t will Der Who told your"
 Nobody told me-" replied Johnny Chuck. "I don't have to be told; just know it."
 Johnny Chuck, you must be crazy, declared Peter. If no one told you how can you know it?'
 "I feel it." replied Johnny Chuck. T can't tell you just how ] feel It, but I do feel it. and I know that we are going to have a long, cold, nara winter So l am getting ready TOT it. If you had any sense at all In that head of yours you would do the same thing. Excuse me now, for ! must go back to work" With this Johnny Chuck disap- peared down inside his house and In a few minutes some more sanu was pushed out. Peter scratched one 1 long ear with long hind foot. Then l he scratched the other long ear with tho other long hind foot. Hes crazy" muttered Feteri "certainly is crazy. How can he know 1 He can't No sir. he can't Yet ne acts as if he really believes 1t. Why' ! the summer is hardly over yeti He certainly is crazy"
 Copyright. 1891. by T. w. Burgessl 1 The next story-"J Johnny ShueA Gcts Almost Too Fat to Move"