The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-16
Little Stories For Bedtime By yHosNroN V. suasess
SOMEONE ELSE LOOKS FOR WIN.
 SOME'S HOME
By THORNTON ". suasE Ess
hETER RABBIT, as you remember
 had failed to find the new hom

lnETER RABBIT, as you remember, had failed to find the new home of Winsome Bluebird, but he was not the only one interested in Win somes home. Oh, my, no! There are tcertain little people who have fond ness for fresh eggs. One of these is Chatterer the Red Squirrel. That fond ness for eggs has got him into trouble more than once. You remember how once he stole the eggs of Drummer the WoOdpecker and for time made Drum mer think that the theft was Sammy Jay.
 Now this spring Chatterer was feel ing very fine. There wasn't any req son in the world why he shouldn't be feeling fine. You see, all the long winter Farmer Browns boy had kept him supplied with plenty to eat. He hadn't had to work or worry. Now it isn't always a good thing to have nothing to worry about and no work to do! it leaves too much time for mis- chief. During the cold winter there wasn't much mischief that Chatterer could get into, but there was plenty of l time to plan mischief and I am afraid that Chatterer did more of this than he should have. For one thing, he look ed forward to the time when the feath- cred folk should return to the Old Or chard, not because of. their songs and the joy of their presence, but because of-guess what! You can't? Let me whisper. Because of the eggs he knew they would lays Yes, sir, Chatterer the Red Sqirrel looked forward to the com ing of the birds because of the dinners he felt sure he would have; dinners of nice fresh eggs.
 So in the long winter Chatterer. hav- ing nothing else to do, planned how he would get those eggs when the time should come. He knew that it was quite useless to make any plans for stealing the eggs of those birds who build open nests because there was no possible way of knowing where they would build He would have to wait until they came and began building be! fore he could make any plans. But there were those other birds who build in holes in trees, Drummer the Wood becker, Skinner the Swallow, Winsome Bluebird. Cresty the Flycatcher. Bully the English Sparrow, Tommy Tit the Chickadee, and Jenny Wren. He knew that Drummer might cut a new hole for his house, but most of the others would use old holes. So ChAtterer spent his spare time examining every tree in the Old Orchard for holes, so that when the time should come he would know just where to look.
 Among the hollows which Chatterer looked into was the one which had been the home of Winsome Bluebird for sew eral summers. Chatterer Knew this. It was. a very comfortable hollow and Chatterer used, it for storehouse dur, ing the winter He intended to clean 'it all out before Winsome Blubird should arrive in the spring, but being rather a happy -go-lucky fellow. he put 1t off and put it off, and finally forgot all about it. And so, when Mrs. Win some inspected her old home she knew right away that Chatterer had used it for a storehouse and that therefore it wasn't possible to use it again for a home.
 But Chatterer knew nothing about this, and knowing that Winsome and Mrs Winsome would be the first to have eggs, always excepting Bully the English Sparrow. he counted those eggs as already his. So he kept a sharp eye on the old home of Winsome Blue bird, all the time planning how he would watch until Mrs. Winsome left the nest carly some morning to get her brea kfast. Then he would slip in and get those eggs. So the days passed and he saw nothing of Winsome or Mrs. Winsome about the old home After a while this struck Chattefer as queer. It was high time that they should be building their nest, and yet he had seen no siens