New Britain herald., 1927-01-31

Chatterer the Red Squirrel was
 quite beside himself Every one
 within sound of his voice knew this,
 It really was quite shocking. Some
 body had found two of his store
 houses and had taken the nuts that
 were stored there. It was bad
 enough to have one storehouse
 found and robbed, but when Chat
 terer discovered that certain
 special storehouse, in which he had
 hidden away many sweet beechnuts,
 had been entered and those sweet
 beechnuts taken, he acted as if he were crazy. Some people are that
 way. It doesn't do them any good and it doesn't get them anywhere,
 but this doesn't seem to make any difference.
 Now, Chatterer had first suspected Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel. and then Rusty the Fox Squirrel. But, though he had watched them and followed them, he hadn't once dis covered anything 10 show that they were the ones who had emptied his storehouses. So Chatterer was com pletely at a loss, He might have suspected Sammy Jay but for the fact that one of these storehouses was where Sammy could not pos sibly get at it. So he didn't know who to suspect, and he worried.
 My goodness." said Chatterer to himself for he talks to himself when he has no one else to talk to. ''My goodness, what is going to hap pen to me if any more of my store houses are robbed? I put away plen- ty of food for the winter. but if if is going to be stolen this way, I don't know what will happen. No, sir. I don't know what will happen"
 So from that time on Chatterer began to spend a great deal of his time running from one storehouse to another and worrying. He wor- ried for fear he would find another storehouse robbed. He worried for fear, even if no more of his storehouses were robbed, he would not have enough food to last him ! the winter through. So Chattercr | grew thin. For q small person, Chatterer is thin, anytway. You see. ! he is altogether too active to get | very fat He runs his fat off. But | when he began to worry. he grew | even thinner. and the middle of the . winter isn't q good time 10 grow . thin. He was worrying himself thin. . Added to that he lost his appetite. You know ii is one of the most diff . ficult things in the world 10 have good appetite when you are worry ing. Worry and appetite do not go together. Pretty soon Ihatterer's friends began to notice i' and began to make remarks about IT.
 Now, one thing one should never do is 10 make remarks about au- other persons personal appearance. unless it is 10 say something very nice. 1T possible one should always tell very thin people that 'h-y are growing fat. and very fat people that they are growing thin. So you can guess how rha'torrr's temper was in those days
 My gracious" exclaimed SJmmy Jay, that fellow is cross cnouch 10 bite his own bark off. I don't see what has gotten into him. He never was sweet-tempered, but now there Is no staying near him Hc certainly has something on his mind, ] won der what it is"
 Of course, Chattercr's cousins. Happy Jack and Rusty, would have nothing al all 10 do with him They simply kept out of his way, or tried to: and they, too wondered what 1t was that had so badly upset their small cousin in red. And then one lay Chatterer told them all about {. He told them how two of his bad heen cmptied, and when he saw their faces he kneW or sure that neither Happy Jack TOT Rusty had anything 10 do with
 Who do you suppose it could ave been?" whimpered Chatterer.
 Rut his cousins did not know.
 Tho next story: When Chatterer lepi."
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