The Jay Bird Who Went Tame

Bang! Smash! Crash! Splash! The thunder roared and the lightning went scuttling and dodging across the sky as though it wanted a place of its own to hide and couldn’t find one....

The most puzzled little boy you ever saw tramping off to school on a rainy morning was certainly Tommy Peele. Unless it was Louie Thomson. “Hey, Tommy,” he called, when he heard...

I just tell you Chaik and Tad didn’t mind that rain. Tad Coon had a big, dry cellar to hunt in and a fine supply of mice who came to nibble his corn. Chaik Jay slept in his corn...

But Killer never finished. He’d scared himself ’most to death telling about the Ghost Owl; so when he did hear a sound he made a frantic scratching to squeeze into the crack in...

Prob’ly you’re all wondering what happened to Chaik Jay and Tad Coon when the big rain began to fall. Chaik had hurt his wing. He’d have had a bad time with it if he’d tried to...

You needn’t think, just because you’ve been hearing about Chaik Jay’s foolishness, that he and Tad Coon had all the fun there was. Not a bit of it. Things were happening round T...

In the meantime, while Watch the Dog was busy in the barn, Stripes Skunk’s kittens came dashing up calling, “Come! Quick, quick! Come!” And what do you suppose they’d found? An...

If Tommy Peele wondered what Doctor Muskrat was doing up at the watering trough just outside his barn door, he did a lot more wondering when he stepped inside. For there, on top...

Tommy Peele was mighty busy the day of the thrashing. He had to run for oil, and monkey wrenches, and drinks for the men, and I don’t know what else, all day long. So were the m...

Chatter Squirrel scrambled up to the very tippest twig of his tree and there he hung while he told Killer all about himself. “Slit-throat!” and “Furred-snake!” and “Mud-belly!”...

I. Chaik and Tad Make Themselves at Home II. An Evening Party at the Thomson’s House III. Chaik Makes Discoveries About the Holes Men Live In IV. Dr. Muskrat’s Adventures in the...