Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-22
BEDTIME STORIES By = 7 sSsc1ss

not understand. Why, my grand.
father planted some of those young
trees! He hid the seeds in the ground
and then forgot Them
But if the little people of the Green
Forest thought i'll and said i'll of
Farmer Browns Boy. he didn't know
it, and he kept on with his work of
young tree there until quite a number
Of those beautiful young trees lay
on the snow. Then he began to drag
them out to the edge Of the Green
Forest, and there he made a great
pile. Farmer Brown came and looked
them over.
Those are good ones, Son." said
he. You'd better leave one at the
house and take the rest to the village.
You have done good job. The trees
in there certainly did need thinning
out badly. Next year We'll take a
few more out. BY and by We'll have
as fine piece of woodland as there
is anywhere around"
Farmer Brown and Farmer Brown s
Boy went toward the barn. Sammy
Jay, and Happy Jack Squirrel, and
Chatter the Red Squirrel, and Peter
Whitefoot the Wood Mouse watched
them go. They were very much dis.
turbed. these little people. They
didn't understand why these trees
should have been cut. and they wor.
ried for fear more were going to be
cut. They were still talking 1t over
when Farmer Browns Boy returned
with pair of horses dragging a big
wood sled. He loaded the young trees
onto the sled, piling them up care
fully and lashing them with a rope
Then he drove off up to the barnyard
and unhitched the horses and put
them in the barn. The little people
watching from the edge of the Green
Forest didn't understand 1t yet.
Early the next morning Sammy Jay
1t was daylight. He was there tc
watch that sledload of young trees
He hardly took time to get his break
fast for fear something might happen
to those trees and he not know it
Finally Farmer Browns Boy came
out Of the house and went to the
| barn. Presently he came out witt
two horses and hitched them to the
sled. Then he took one young spruce
| tree from the sled and stood it in q
| corner close by the kitchen door
After that he climbed up onto those
| trees and started off. Sammy JAY
watched him head toward the village
Those young trees We're being carried
away. What did it mean?
Sammy went to hunt up Peter Rab
bit and Happy Jack Squirrel, Chat
terer the Red Squirrel, and Whitefoot
the Wood Mouse, and Jumper the
Hare, to tell them what he had seen
Now of course, none of these coulc
follow Farmer Browns Boy and those
I young trees. you'll have to do II
| Sammy" said Peter Rabbit. "You
I follow and see what is done with
! those trees. We ought to know. Yes
| sir, we ought to know what is being
| done with our trees. If Farmer
Browns Boy is going to take ava,
| our beautiful Green Forest we ought
to know 1t, and we ought to know
what Is being done with those trees
wonder II he'll be back here ant
! cut more today"
! All the others said that Samm,
/ should follow the trees and find ou
what became of them. This Samm,
! was quite willing to do. So he spreae
his blue wings and hurried until h,
was almost up with Farmer Brown:
Boy. Then he kept in the trees just {
little ways back of the sledload O
trees and followed on.
Copyright. 1880