New Britain herald., 1927-02-01

Now, Chatterer the Red Squirrel and his big co olsins, Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel and Rusty the Fox Squirrel, loved the daylight. They do not like the Black Shadows that come creeping up from the Purple Hills after jolly round, red MT. Sun has gone to bed They take care to be at home snugly curled up in bed by the time the Black Shadows reach the Green Forest. They are up and about just as soon as jolly, round, red MT. Sun begins his daily climb up in the blue. blue sky, and all day long their sharp eyes are watching all that goes on about them. It is the same way with their little cousin, Striped Chipmunk. He, too, loves the day, but not the night.
 There is, however, another squir- rel cousin who comes out with the coming of the Black Shadows and goes back to bed with the coming of the Jolly Little Sunbeams. Can you guess who it is? Of course you
  rel. He loves best of all those hours when it is neither light nor dark. He loves the dusk, the very time that Hooty the Owl and Spooky the Screach Owl and all other members of the Owl family love. They are the ones he has to watch out for, but he doesn't have to worry much about members of the Hawk family
 Now, Timmy likes nuts quite as we'll as do some of his larger G.7us- ins. He eats seeds of various kinds, as well as nuts. In fact, he eats just about what Chatterer the Red Squir- rel eats. But when you have had several cousins working hard all day, by the time night comes there are few nuts to be found. So it hap pened that while Chatterer and Happy Jack and Rusty and Striped Chipmunk had their storehouses well filled, Timmy was not so for tunate. He didn't worry, for he is not the worrying kind. He never had starved and he didn't expect to starve, but he felt that it would be a lot more comfortable if he had little more food stored away. So when quite by accident he discover ed onaof Chatterer's storehouses, he promptly helped himself. He guessed whose storehouse it was, but it is the law of the Green Forest that whatever one may find one may keep. It wasn't stealing, as it would have been had you or I taken those nuts. It is the law of the Green Forest that one must hide things SO that they cannot be found. If they are found they become the property of whoever finds them. So Timmy didn't hesitate to empty that store house.
 Then little later he found an- other storehouse of Chatterer's and this one was filled with sweet, ten eyes of Timmy's did sparkle, and how he did work that night. You should have seen him make those long, flying jumps from tree to tree, as he carried those nuts - those sweet, tender beechnuts-to a private little storehouse of his own. By the time jolly. round, red MT. Sun began his daily climb not one little beechnut was left in Chatter CTS storehouse. and Timmy himself was curled up in his bed fast asleep. That is why Chatterer saw nothing of him and didn't once suspect him.
 Now, as I said before, in the eyes of the little people of the Green For est. and under the laws of the Green Forest, Timmy had done no wrong. For you to take something which belonged to another would be wrong. It would be wrong for one of the little people in the Green Forest 10 take something from another by fighting for it. That would be rob bery. But 10 find something and take it would not be wrong. That IS Old Mother Natures way of train ing her little people to be so clever and smart that they can hide things where no one will find them. They know that If they hide them where others are likely to find them they 3sserve 10 lose them. So had Tim my heard Chatterer calling him