Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1930, Page 27

BEDTIME STORIES %7552y Happy Jack. Persistence seldom knows defeat; You'll find it very hard to beat. ~—Farmer Brown's Boy. Farmer Brown's Boy was wondering how Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel had | come out in his fight with Spooky the h Owl for the possession of a house which Farmer Brown's Boy had made and put up especially for Happy Jack. Late the afternoon before Happy Jack had had possession of the house, while Spooky sat disconsolately out- side. Farmer Brown's Boy wondered what had happened in the night. He knew that Happy Jack had had the advantage dur?ng daylight, but that Spooky would have had the advantage k. “FAIR ENOUGH.” REPLIED SPOOKY. er Brown's Boy went out to the t of the: maple tree and looked up. d see the doorway to the house, Wwas no one in that door. me pebbles and threw house. ‘Happy Jack didn’t , & very sleepy look- face appeared in the doorway. It . Farmer Brown's Boy win after all. Well, if you “house s0 much, I guess we e $0 let you have it. I'll build for Happy Jack and then both ill be satisfied,” he said. |{one that Spooky had taken possession of. This he put up in another tree over nearer the Old Orchard and waited to see if Happy Jack would find it. Happy Jack did find it. He knew that that house was meant for him, just as he knew that the other was meant for him. He inspected it thoroughly, in- side and out. Then he barked happily and forthwith began to carry in dry leaves as fast as he could. He meant to have possession of that house be- fore any one could get ahead of him. My, how Happy Jack did work You know, there isn't a lazy bone in y Jack’s whole body. By the time jolly, round, red Mr. Sun began to get ready to go to bed behind the Purple Hills, Happy Jack had a snug, comfortable bed all made inside that house. He had quite forgotten his disappointment in losing the other house—the one that Spooky had driven him out of. Little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows are that way. They quickly forgot their disappointments and their troubles. g Just after the Black Shadows took possession of the land, Spooky the Screech Owl came out of the house. [t was hunting time and he was hungry. He flew straight over the Old Orchard and there he hunted for mice. He visit- ed the edge of the Green Forest. He even went over to the barnyard. He quite forgot everything but his appe- “ite and the need of catching enough mice to satisfy it. It was just at the break of day, as Spooky was preparing to go home, that he discovered the n‘e:d }ml;se ufm Farmer Brown's Boy put, up for Happy Jack. Spooky blinked those big eyes,of his two or three times. That house was 50 exactly like the one that he had that he almost suspected a trick. He almost suspected that that house had been moved. But when he flew over to this new house and dis- covered that inside was a bed of dry leaves, and heard the mm scolding of Happy Jack Squirrel, who had just awakened, he knew that this must be another house. don'twant Jour " hause " smepped on’t want your ,” sni Spooky, “I can't use but onme house, and that I've got.” “Then go away and stay away!” growled Happy Jack. “If you won't bother me, I won't bother you.” “Fair enough,” replied Spooky. And, spreading his wings, flew over to his So that very day Farmer Brown's Boy Bullt another house exactly like the own house and prepared to sleep awa; the long day. e i (Copyright, 1930.) THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, WWLLIE — ENER'THING MU CLWKE o AW MQLASSES ALL 34 GRAY Happy ew Year. —ortt NOW WE wilL Follow THE ANCIENT AND HONORABLE NEW YEAR CuSToM oF CALLING 0N OoUR FRIEWDS! ALL SeT, d€FF? Old Friends Are Like THE PooR FisR! IF THEY POLLOWED ME AN' DRANK LEMONADE THINGS WouLD LooK BRIGHTER To €M TopAy ! D. 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