Woodsy neighbours of Tan and Teckle . All nextday he lay in the burrow with nothing to eat, 252 WOODSY NEIGHBOURS and at night took up his journey again,hunted at every step by some enemy. It was many a day after his boast in the oldstump that a thin, hungry, tired, frightenedhouse mouse crept in at a cellar window, andmade his way to the nest behind the cellar stairsof the farmhouse. What tales he had to tellthe dozens of brothers and sisters and cousinswho crowded around him to hear 1 They hadall thought that the cat got him that day whenhe climbed into the keg among the sacks, andwas carrie
Woodsy neighbours of Tan and Teckle . All nextday he lay in the burrow with nothing to eat, 252 WOODSY NEIGHBOURS and at night took up his journey again,hunted at every step by some enemy. It was many a day after his boast in the oldstump that a thin, hungry, tired, frightenedhouse mouse crept in at a cellar window, andmade his way to the nest behind the cellar stairsof the farmhouse. What tales he had to tellthe dozens of brothers and sisters and cousinswho crowded around him to hear 1 They hadall thought that the cat got him that day whenhe climbed into the keg among the sacks, andwas carried out by the hired man and takenaway in the farm wagon. Wild stories he recited for them of the out-side world. And the thing they could leastunderstand was the account of the two littlefield-mice who lived in a hollow stump, andhad so many enemies to watch, and had togather all their food for themselves, and hadso few things to eat, and yet were so brightand cheerful and happy. The house micecould never understand how that could I THE BIRD WHO DOESNTCARE F I were as lazy as some people, I think I would go just a little farther, and not take the trouble to come up north at all, said the old turkey buzzard, wiping his beak clumsily on the log whereon he sat in the warm, autumnal sunshine. He had just feasted off dead pig until he was too heavy to fly. There had been cholera among the farmers pigs that year, and the old turkey buzzard had found life very pleasant. There were many dead pigs to be eaten. For that reason he had delayed his yearly journey to the south. Tan and Teckle, the little field-mice, were uncertain what the great bird meant. They had always thought that if there were a lazy 253 254 WOODSY NEIGHBOURS bird in the world, or one careless in his per-sonal habits, it was the old turkey they would not say such a thing to they kept quiet, and presently he went on,talking as much to himself as to them : Youd think now, to see them all so soci-ab
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