65

BUSY TIMES 69

AN ACCIDENT 73

TWO PIGEONS 77

MISS PUSSY 81

A BUSY BEAVER 85

DON'T WORRY 89

THE LITTLE FROSTY PAINTER 93

GRANDPA POSSUM 97

COUSIN CHATTERBOX 101

JIMMY JAY 105

THE TIP OF A TAIL 109

OLD BARNEY OWL 113

"HELP! HELP!" 117

PUMPKIN PLACE, P. O. 121

AN ICE CREAM PINE CONE 125

LITTLE JACK RABBIT AND THE SQUIRREL BROTHERS

THE GAME OF MARBLES

Never stop upon your way,
Just to fool around and play.
Learn to quickly go to school;
Never, never break this rule.

But, oh dear me. One morning when Little Jack Rabbit met the Squirrel
Brothers, Featherhead, the naughty gray squirrel, asked him to stop and
play a game of marbles.

"Where are your marbles?" asked the little rabbit.

"Here they are," answered Featherhead, taking some red and yellow oak
apples out of his pocket. "They make dandy marbles."

Little Jack Rabbit dropped his school books, and quickly dug a hole in
the ground. Then they all took turns rolling the marbles to see who
would have the first shot.

The little bunny's was the first to drop into the hole, although Twinkle
Tail's was very close and Featherhead's not far away.

It was then easy for Little Jack Rabbit to hit the two marbles. Why, he
couldn't miss them, they were so close. I guess they would have been
playing until now if all of a sudden, just like that, Bobbie Redvest
hadn't called out:

"Ding-a-ling! ding-a-ling! the school bell is ringing."

"Gracious me!" cried little bunny, and off he went, clipperty clip,
lipperty lip. Featherhead and Twinkle Tail picked up their books and
followed.

It certainly was lucky that the little robin had shouted, "Ding-a-ling!
ding-a-ling!" for hardly had they reached the top of the hill when the
school bell commenced: "Ding, dong! ding, dong! ding, dong!"

"Hurry up!" cried Little Jack Rabbit, "or we'll be late," and he hopped
along faster than ever.

Professor Crow was standing in the doorway waiting for the last scholar
to arrive.

All out of breath and scared to death,
Came little Jackie Bunny.
And Twinkle Tail began to quail,