1 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. A short 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: message for grown ups. Please consider supporting sleep Tight Stories 3 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: and our mission to bring calming entertainment to children at 4 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: sleep time. In return, you will continue to receive ad 5 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: free stories, extra and exclusive content, shout outs, and more. 6 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: Please visit us at patreon dot com slash sleep Tight Stories. 7 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: A link can also be found in our show notes. 8 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: Thank you. I'd like to say hello to some friends. 9 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: Hello to keem Al from Istanbul, Walter and his two fish, 10 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: Cow and Goldie, Henry and Matthew from Edmonton, and Quinlan 11 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: from Brooklyn, New York. Thank you so much for supporting 12 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: us on Patreon. This is part seven of our story 13 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: about Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel. If you have not 14 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: listened to the first six parts, you might want to 15 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: go back and listen to them. In this part of 16 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 1: the story, Jack has just run into Farmer Brown's boys 17 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: room to hide from Shadow the Weasel. But will he 18 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: be safe? The boy wakes up and helps Jack with 19 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: his problem. Let's see what happens Happy Jack Part seven. 20 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: Isn't it strange how hard it seems to be for 21 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: some boys to go to bed at the proper time? 22 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: And how much harder it is for them to get 23 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: up in the morning. It was just so with Farmer 24 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: Brown's boy. I suppose he wouldn't have been a real 25 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: boy if it hadn't been so. Of course, while he 26 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: was sick with the mumps, he didn't have to get up, 27 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: And while he was getting over the mumps, his mom 28 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: let him sleep as long as he wanted to in 29 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 1: the morning. That was very nice, but it made it 30 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: all the harder to get up when he should after 31 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: he was well again. In summer it wasn't so bad 32 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: getting up early. But in winter, well, that was the 33 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: one thing about winter that Farmer Brown's Boy didn't like. 34 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: On this particular morning, Farmer Brown had called him, and 35 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 1: he had replied with a sleepy all right, and then 36 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: had rolled over and promptly gone to sleep again. In 37 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: two minutes, he was dreaming, just as if there was 38 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: no such thing as duties to be done. For a while, 39 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: they were very pleasant dreams, very pleasant, indeed, But suddenly 40 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: they changed. He was being chased in his dream. He 41 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: couldn't see what it was behind him, but he felt 42 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: he had to run. In his dream, he ran and ran, 43 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: Then he tripped and fell and couldn't get back up. 44 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:31,479 Speaker 1: He could feel something coming closer and closer. With a yell, 45 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,559 Speaker 1: Farmer Brown's Boy woke up and sprang out of bed. 46 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: For a minute, he couldn't think where he was. Then, 47 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: with a sigh of relief, he realized that he was 48 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: safe in his own snug little room, with the first 49 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: jolly little sunbeam creeping in at the window to wish 50 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: him good morning and chied him for being such a 51 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: lazy fellow. A thump and a scurry of little feet 52 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: caught his attention, and he turned to see a gray 53 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 1: squirrel running for the open window. It jumped up on 54 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: the sill, looked out, then jumped down inside again, and 55 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: ran over to a corner of the room, where he crouched. 56 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: It was clear that he had been badly frightened by 57 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 1: the yell of Farmer Brown's Boy, and that he was 58 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 1: still more frightened by something he had seen. When he 59 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 1: looked out of the window. A great light broke over 60 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 1: Farmer Brown's Boy. Happy Jack, you little rascal. I believe 61 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 1: you are the thing that scared me, so he exclaimed, 62 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: But what is wrong? He looks so frightened. He went 63 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 1: over to the window and looked out. A movement in 64 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: the big maple tree just outside caught his attention. He 65 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: saw a long, slim, white form dart down the tree 66 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: and disappear. He knew who it was. It was Shadow 67 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: the Weasel. So that pesky weasel has been after you again, 68 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: and you came to me for help, he said gently 69 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: as he coaxed Happy Jack to come to him. This 70 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: is the place to come to every time, poor little chap, 71 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:57,119 Speaker 1: you're all of a tremble. He gently stroked Happy Jack 72 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:04,559 Speaker 1: as he talked, and Happy Jack left him. Breakfast, called 73 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: the voice from downstairs, coming, replied Farmer Brown's boy, as 74 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: he put Happy Jack on the table by a dish 75 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: of nuts and began to scramble into his clothes. Happy 76 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: Jack didn't dare go home. Can you think of anything 77 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: more dreadful than to be afraid to go to your 78 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: own home? Why? Home is the dearest place in the world, 79 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: and it should be the safest. Just Hank, how you 80 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: would feel if you should be away from home and 81 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: then you should learn that it wouldn't be safe for 82 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: you to go back there again, and you had no 83 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: other place to go. It often happens that way with 84 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: the little people of the green meadows and the green forest. 85 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: It was that way with happy Jack Squirrel. Now you see, 86 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: Happy Jack knew that Shadow the weasel is not one 87 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: to give up easily. Shadow has one very good trait, 88 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: and that is persistence. He is not easily discouraged. When 89 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: he sets out to do a thing, usually he does it. No, 90 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: he isn't easily discouraged. And Happy Jack knows this. No 91 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: one knows it better. So Happy Jack didn't dare to 92 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 1: go home. He knew that any minute of night or day, 93 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: Shadow might surprise him. Then he more than half suspected 94 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: that Shadow was at that very time hiding somewhere along 95 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 1: the way, ready to spring out on him if he 96 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: should try to go back home. He had stayed in 97 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: the room of Farmer Brown's Boy until Missus Brown had 98 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: come to make the bed. Then he jumped out of 99 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: the window into the big maple tree. He wasn't quite 100 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: sure of Missus Brown yet. She had kindly eyes. They 101 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 1: were just like the eyes of Farmer Brown's boy. But 102 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: he didn't feel really acquainted yet, and he felt safer 103 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 1: outside than inside the room when she was there. Oh dear, 104 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: oh dear, what shall I do? I have no home, 105 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: and so to keep me warming, snug and safe, I 106 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: have no place to go. Happy Jack said this over 107 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: and over as he sat in the maple tree trying 108 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 1: to decide what was to be done. I wonder what 109 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: ails that squirrel. He seems to be doing a lot 110 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: of scolding, said Missus Brown as she looked out of 111 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: the window. And that shows how easy it is to 112 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: misunderstand people when we don't know all about their affairs. 113 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: Missus Brown thought that Happy Jack was scolding, when all 114 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,439 Speaker 1: the time he was just frightened and worried and wondering 115 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 1: where he could go and what he could do to 116 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: feel safe from Shadow the weasel. Because he didn't dare 117 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 1: to go back to the green forest, he spent most 118 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: of the day in the big maple tree close to 119 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: Farmer Brown's house. The window had been closed, so he 120 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 1: couldn't go inside. He looked at it longingly a great 121 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: many times during the day, hoping that he would find 122 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: it open, But he didn't. You see, it was opened 123 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: only at night when Farmer Brown's boy went to bed, 124 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: so that he would have plenty of fresh air all night. 125 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 1: Of course, Happy Jack didn't know that all his life 126 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: he had had plenty of fresh air all the time, 127 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: and couldn't understand how people could live in houses all 128 00:11:53,679 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: closed up. Late that afternoon, Farmer Brown's boy, who had 129 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: been at school all day, came whistling into the yard. 130 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:15,199 Speaker 1: He noticed Happy Jack right away. Hello, you back again. 131 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: Isn't one good meal a day enough, he exclaimed. He's 132 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: been there all day, said his mother, who had come 133 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: to the door just in time to overhear him. I 134 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: don't know what is bothering him. Then Farmer Brown's boy 135 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: noticed how unhappy Happy Jack looked. He remembered Happy Jack's 136 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: fright that morning. I know what's the matter, he cried. 137 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: It's that weasel. The poor little chap is afraid to 138 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: go home. We must see what we can do for him. 139 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: I wonder if he will stay if I make a 140 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 1: new house for him. I believe I'll try it and see. Certainly, 141 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: things couldn't look much darker than they did to Happy 142 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: Jack Squirrel as he sat in the big maple tree 143 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: at the side of Farmer Brown's house and saw Jolly 144 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: round Red mister Sun getting ready to go to bed 145 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: behind the Purple Hills. He was afraid to go to 146 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: his home in the green forest, because Shadow the weasel 147 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: might be waiting for him there. He was afraid of 148 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: the night which would soon come. He was cold, and 149 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: he was hungry. Altogether, he was as miserable a little 150 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 1: squirrel as ever was seen. He had just made up 151 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 1: his mind that he would have to go look for 152 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: a hollow in one of the trees in the old 153 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: orchard in which to spend the night, when around the 154 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: corner of the house came Farmer Brown's Boy with something 155 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: under one arm and dragging a ladder. He whistled cheerily 156 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: to Happy Jack as he put the ladder against the 157 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: tree and climbed up. By this time, Happy Jack had 158 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: grown so timid that he was just a little afraid 159 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 1: of Farmer Brown's Boy, so he climbed as high up 160 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: in the tree as he could get and watched what 161 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: was going on below. Even if he was afraid, there 162 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: was comfort in having Farmer Brown's Boy near. For some time, 163 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: Farmer Brown's Boy worked busily at the place where the 164 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: branch that Happy Jack knew so well started out from 165 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: the trunk of the tree towards the window a Farmer 166 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: Brown's Boy's room. When he had fixed things to suit him. 167 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: He went down the ladder and carried it away with him. 168 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: In the crook of the tree he had left the 169 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: strange thing that he had brought under his arm. In 170 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: spite of his fears, Happy Jack was curious. Little by little, 171 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: he crept nearer. What he saw was a box with 172 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: a round hole just about big enough for him to 173 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: go through in one end, and in front of it 174 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: a little shelf. On the shelf were some of the 175 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: nuts that he liked best. For a long time, Happy 176 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 1: Jack looked and looked. Was it a trap? Somehow, he 177 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 1: couldn't believe that it was. What would Farmer Brown's boy 178 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: try to trap him for when they were such good friends. 179 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 1: At last, the sight of the nuts was too much 180 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: for him. It certainly was safe enough to help himself 181 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: to those. Oh how good they tasted. Almost before he 182 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: knew it, they were gone. Then he got up courage 183 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: enough to peep inside. The box was filled with soft hay. 184 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: It certainly did look inviting in there to a fellow 185 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: who had no home and no place to go. He 186 00:16:55,960 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: put his head inside. Finally he went home. In it 187 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: was just as nice as it looked, I believe, thought 188 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 1: Happy Jack that he made this little house just for me, 189 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: and that he put all this hay in here for 190 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: my bed. He doesn't know much about making a bed, 191 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: but I guess he means well. And with that he 192 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 1: went to work happily to make up a bed to 193 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,640 Speaker 1: suit him. And by the time the first black shadow 194 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: had crept as far as the Big Maple Tree, Happy 195 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: Jack was curled up fast asleep in his new house. 196 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 1: Happy Jack Squirrel was happy once more. He liked his 197 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 1: new house, the house that Farmer Brown's Boy had made 198 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: for him, and fastened in the big Maple Tree close 199 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: by the house in which he himself lived. Happy Jack 200 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: and Farmer Brown's Boy were getting to be greater friends 201 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 1: than ever. Every morning, Happy Jack jumped over to the 202 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:16,359 Speaker 1: windowsill and then in at the open window of the 203 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 1: room of Farmer Brown's Boy. There he was sure to 204 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: find a good breakfast of fat hickory nuts. When Farmer 205 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: Brown's Boy overslept, as he did, sometimes Happy Jack would 206 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: jump up on the bed and wake him. He thought 207 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: this was great fun. So did Farmer Brown's Boy, though 208 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: sometimes when he was very sleepy he pretended to scold, 209 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 1: especially on Sunday mornings when he did not have to 210 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: get up as early as on other days. Of course, 211 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: the black Cat had soon discovered that Happy Jack was 212 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: living in the big maple tree, and she spent a 213 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 1: great deal of time sitting at the foot of it 214 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: and glaring up at him with a hungry look in 215 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:18,160 Speaker 1: her eyes. Several times she climbed up in the tree 216 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: and tried to catch him. At first, he had been afraid, 217 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 1: but he had soon found out that the black cat 218 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: was not at all at home in the tree as 219 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: he was. After that, he rather enjoyed having her try 220 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 1: to catch him. It was almost like a game. It 221 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 1: was great fun to scold at her and let her 222 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 1: get very near him, and then just as she was 223 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: sure that she was going to catch him to jump 224 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: out of her reach. After a while, she was content 225 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: to sit at the foot of the tree and just 226 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: glare him. Happy Jack had only one worry now, and 227 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 1: this didn't trouble him a great deal. It was possible 228 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 1: that Shadow the Weasel might take it into his head 229 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 1: to try to surprise him some night. Happy Jack knew 230 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 1: that by this time Shadow must know where he was living. 231 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: For of course, Sammy Jay had found out, and Sammy 232 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 1: is one of those who tells all he knows. Still, 233 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: being so close to Farmer Brown's Boy gave Happy Jack 234 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 1: a very comfortable feeling. Now, all this time, Farmer Brown's 235 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 1: Boy had not forgotten Shadow the Weasel, and how he 236 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: had driven Happy Jack out of the green forest. And 237 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 1: he had wondered a great many times if it wouldn't 238 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: be a kindness to the other little people, if he 239 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: should catch Shadow and take him out of the forest. 240 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: But you know, he had given up trapping, and somehow 241 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 1: he didn't like to think of setting a trap, even 242 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:21,920 Speaker 1: for such a mischief maker as Shadow. Then something happened 243 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 1: that made Farmer Brown's Boy very, very angry. One morning, 244 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,439 Speaker 1: when he went to feed the chickens, he found that 245 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: Shadow had visited the henhouse in the night, and three 246 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: of his best chickens were missing. That decided it. He 247 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: felt sure that Shadow would come again, and he meant 248 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: to give Shadow a surprise. He looked until he found 249 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: the little hole through which Shadow had gotten into the henhouse, 250 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: and there he set a trap. I don't like to 251 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 1: do it, but I've got to, he said. It is 252 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: time that something was done to get rid of him. 253 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: The very next morning, Happy Jack saw Farmer Brown's Boy 254 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:19,119 Speaker 1: coming from the henhouse with something under his arm. He 255 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: came straight over to the foot of the big maple 256 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 1: tree and put the thing he was carrying down on 257 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:30,439 Speaker 1: the ground. He whistled to Happy Jack, and as Happy 258 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: Jack came down to see what it was all about, 259 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: Farmer Brown's Boy grinned. Here's a friend of yours you 260 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: probably will be glad to see, he said. At first, 261 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 1: all Happy Jack could make out was a kind of 262 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: wire box. Then he saw something white inside, and it 263 00:22:54,720 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: moved very suspiciously. Happy Jack came nearer, then his heart 264 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 1: gave a great leap. That wire box was a cage, 265 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 1: and glaring between the wires was Shadow the weasel. He 266 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:19,359 Speaker 1: had been caught. Right away, Happy Jack was so excited 267 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 1: that he acted as if he were crazy. He no 268 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: longer had a single thing to be afraid of? Can 269 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:40,439 Speaker 1: you understand why he was so excited? That is the 270 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 1: end of this episode. Good Night and sleep Tight.