Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1930, Page 28

12 _' Our Secret Ambition. —By Gaar Williams I WEEP OUR WIFE /INTERESTED /N OUR STORIES e 2 e — The Broken Limb. 'Tis the ones who succeed, and they only. Who say You will find with a will there is always & w Old Mother Nature. ‘There is very little that Chatterer the Red Squirrel, misses. Those bright eyes of his take note of everything. I know of no sharper eyes, unless pos- sibly the eyes of Sammy Jay are sharper. So you may be sure that Chatterer notices every little thing. It happened that there had been a severe windstorm. All through the Green Forest twigs and small branches had been broken from the trees. The same thing had happened to some of the trees around Farmer Brown's house. You see, at the time of the wind there had been ice on the trees and this had made the twigs and limbs very brittle. Now, over near the corn crib was a maple tree. Some of the branches spread partly over the roof of the corn crib. but they were high above it. Dur- Ing this windstorm one of these branches broke. It didn't break off clean. The bark and some long fibers held it from breaking off wholly. Thus it hung down and the tip of it as it hung this way was just a few feet above the roof of the corn crib. Chatterer had gone over early one morning to see if he could find any grains of corn around the corn crib. Sometimes Farmer Brown's Boy would spill a few grains. Chatterer never failed to look up to see if by any chance that clothesline had been put back from the top of the clothespost to a corner of the corn crib. Always he had a feeling of disappointment when he discovered that it hadn't been. Some- times he would even climb up to the top of the clothespost. On this particular morning Chatterer found no corn. He was just about to go back home when he discovered Black Pussy the Cat, and at the same time Black Pussy discovered BY THORNTON . BURGESS him. The nearest place to safety was that tree with the broken limb. Chat- terer scampered up this and from a comfortable seat in a crotch high up he looked down and scolded Black Pussy. Black Pussy didn’t climb the tree. She knew from bitter experience that she couldn’t get around in a tree as Chatterer could, so it would be use- less to eclimb after him. Having nothing eise to do, however, she sat | down at the foot of the tree and glared up at Chatterer. - She would keep him up there for a while, anyway. After a while Chatterer grew tired of scolding Black Pussy. It is not Chatterer’s nature to sit still very long at a time. He began to explore the tree. He climbed all over it. He went 'way up to the top. He went 'way out on the twigs of some of the big branches. He even sampled a Winter bud or two. he discovered that broken limb. didn’'t pay much attention to it at first. It didn't interest him particularly. And then he just happened to notice that that limb hung down over the corn crib. For a few moments Chatterer sat very still. There was an intent look in his bright eyes. Once or twice he scratched his nose thoughtfully. Now and then he jerked his tail slightly. All the time he was studyin that broken branch. Finally he shifted his i)oslllon. He went out where he could ook at it from a different direction. He leaned over and looked down on the root of the corn crib. He went back and’ examined the place where the broken limb was still attached to the tree. His eyes snapped with satisfac- tion when he saw that it would take considerable to break that limb wholly off. His weight on it wouldn't amount to anything. Carefully he crept down until he was 'way to the tip of that branch. Then he looked down on the roof of the corn crib. “I can do it,” saild Chatterer tri- umphantly. “I can do it.” (Copsright, 1930.) Daily CrosssWord Puzzle 1. Impassive, 8. Mercurial medicine. 15. Eat away. 16. Greed. 17. A news agency: abbr. 18. Trees. 19. Joke. 20. Exclamation 21. Bone of the body. | Make merry. . Free of. . Cold desserts. . Implements, . Looks quickly . Sorrow. . Salt. . Cloth. . A flower. . Copy. . Bring to bear. . Watering place. . End of piece of wood fitted into a b mortise, . Active. Sacred poem. 5. Remain. . Silent. . English gold coins. . Sphere. . Printer’s half measure. . Sailors. . Peruvian Indian ruler. . Conjunction. . Preposition. . Knotted. . Revokes in cards. . Concord. . Of local application. . Conjunction. . Anger. . Chill. . Allow. . Study exercises. . Coaxes, . Asserts. . Endure. . Fragment. .- Note in scale, . Sea urchin. . Commanders. . Chancel of church. . Early American poet. . Fury. . Pertaining to feeling. Botches. . Meager. . Adjust. . First name of founder of Yale. . Land measure. . Besmirch. ps. . Famous knight and explorer of Elizabeth’s time. . Preposition. . Vulgarize, . Pronoun. . Shallow vessel, . Pocketbook. . Divinely sent food. . Group. . Sign of wound. Bind. . Equip. . Article of speech. Behold. 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