New Britain herald., 1925-08-14

A Green Forest Apartment Tree Neighbors, when you have too many, Make you wish you hadn't any.
 Mrs. Whitefoot.
 Do you know that there are apartments in the Green Forest? There are. There are regular apartments in the Green Forest. As a rule they are not as popular as single homes. But once in & while they are very handy. Now though Peter Rabbit didn't know it. Mrs Timmy the Flying Squirrel had moved her family into an apartment she had taken. Ready furnished apartments are very handy when you must move in in a hurry and have no chance to furnish the apartment yourself.
 Of course the furnishings of that apartment were very simple. A Squirrels tastes are simple. All they require is a properly made soft bed. The bed in this apartment had been made by Timmy himself some time before. It was old but 1t was soft and good, So Timmy's family was quite as well off as before, except ing that there were nearer neigh bors than Mrs. Timmy cared for. A little below and part way round the trunk of that tree, was another home. It was the home of Drum mer the Woodpecker, and in It were four young Woodpeckers al- most ready to fly. It seemed to little Mrs, Timmy, as she tried to get some sleep that first day, that those young Woodpeckers down below her were crying for food all day long. They got on Mrs. Tlmmy's nerves. but there really wasn't a thing she could do about 1t.
 Tn another hollow still further down in that same tree and around on the opposite side, was another home. It was the home of MT. and Mrs. Whitefoot the Wood Mice They had been the first tenants that year. They had moved in in the winter. Drummer the Woodpeckel and Mrs. Drummer had moved in 1T the spring, after completing theil apartment to suit themselves.
 About half way up that tree which you know is a dead tree, wa! a large apartment which had beer unoccupied for long time. Tht entrance was too large to be at tractive to most people using hol low-tree apartments. But unknown to the other tenants in that apart ment tree. someone had moved into that particular apartment very earl! in the morning of the day that Mrs Timmy had moved her family l None of the other tenants wer' awake at the time, and none knev that Spooly the SCreeCh Owl wa' a very close neighhor. He had come over there from the Old Orchard having been crowded out by the family which Mrs. Spooky was rais' ing in his old home. He hadn'' been able to find another satisfac. tory house in the old Orchard ant so had flown over to the Green For est. He had moved in at once when he discovered this particular house. As he said, it was just hi! size. And when he moved in h. hadn't known that there were an! other tenants in that apartmen tree,
 Now there were four occupied apartments in that apartment tree and of the four families just on, was awake during the day. Tn family of Drummer the Woodpecke awoke at the very beginning of day light, just at the time when tho oth CT tenants weer going 10 bed. am the Woodpeckcrs went 10 bed jus when the other tenants were start ing out. So the Woodpeckers rarel saw anything of the others and in others had only gimpses Of tn Woodpcckers. Tn fact Srooky tn Screech Owl had lived in that tree
 week before he knew that th Woodpeckers were there.
 . Copyright. 1925, by T. ". Burgess
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