The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-20
Good things quite often nro bcIntcd. But amply repay those who wnited.
 Merry Little Freezes.

Good things quite often nro bclnted. | But amply repay those who wnited. Merry Little Freezes.
 It was almost the middle of the
 morning when one of the Merry Little
 Freezes of old Mother West Wind remembered the unshaken nut trees in the Green Forest and reminded the
 other Merry Little Freezes. Instantly
 all stopped playiag on the Green Meadows.
 What shall we do?" cried one in dls1nay. "We should have shaken
 those trees the very first thing this morning. You kow that is what old Mother West Wind told us to do."
 Wen do 1t now" declared the Merry Little Breeze who had remem-
 bered. There is nothing else for us to do. Come on!"
 Away raced the Merry Little Breeses straight for the Green For , est. and they were in such a hurry
 that they brushed all the red and yellow leaves from the tops of the maple trees as they passed and sent
 them fluttering down in all direc-
 tons, They would have liked to stay and blow those beautiful red leaves and yellow leaves about, but there wasn't time.
 So on they rushed straight to the beech trees. There, waiting patient lN were the Deer family and the Grouse family and few other timtd people who are fond of little. sweet brown beechnuts- And there, growI- Ing at each other and in a very bad temper, were Buster Bear, Mother Bear and the cubs, Boxer and Wool Woof.%
 The Merry Little Freezes under stood, and they were sorry and ashamed that they had kept these friends of theirs waiting, With d rush they seized the branches of the beech trees and shook and shook and shook and shook with all their might. The little, sweet, brown nuts flew out of their little husks and rattled down through the branches and tumbled and rolled among the leaves on the ground. Back and forth rocked the tops of the trees! Up and down and from side to side flew the branches. The yellow brown leaves flew off in clouds, and by the time tho Merry Lit tle Freezes were so out of breath that they couldn't shake another branch there wasn't single little, sweet, brown nut left clinging in it's husk on one of those beech trees, No. sir there wasn't one.
 Buster Bear had stopped growling. Mother Bear had stopped grumbIink. Boxer and Woof- Woof. the cubs, had stopped quarreling. All the bad teri per of the Bear family had vanif Where had it gone We'll, you n nave thought 1t had gone into squirrel cousins to have heard them scold' Happy Jack Squirrel scoIded fast ug higs the Fox Squirrel scolded as fast as his tongue could go. Chatterer the Red Squirrel-well, Chatterer scold- ed as fast as his two big cousins to gether. You know Chatterer Is a fa- nous scolder.
 The truth Is, the Squirrel cousins were the only ones who were not glad because of the coming of the Merry Little Breezes. Before they had all those little, sweet brown nuts to themselves; now they must divide with all who wanted a share l and 1t seemed to them that tha in- cluded everybody in the Green For est. Of course, 1t didn't, but there l were so many busy people down there on the ground that 1t seemed that way.
 But sitting up in those trees scoId- | Ing wouldn't put any little, sweet, | brown beechnuts in their storehouses. | Besides, no one paid the least atten- | ton to their scolding. So Happy Jack | and Rusty decided that if they want | ed their share the only way to get | 1t would be to join the others on the | ground and hunt for 1t. and this Is just what they did. Chatterer scold- ed little longer and then he, too, scampered down and began to rus