dchuck Sco

, and soon discovered several gold-fishes swim

, strutting up and down the gravel walk before her

ke a dream,"

odding. "You'd no business t

, rather startled

he replied. "You don't for a mo

e answered. "Aren't

se. Address me properly, young

ren't you Mist

t when you wake up,

think I'm

out for yourself," s

suppose mad

n't k

omething I've eaten?

there's nothing at all horrible about it so far. You've probab

book in a long t

unted for. But this conversation is all wrong. When one is dreaming one doesn

IT'S SOMETHI

garden," said Twinkle. "I

mfortable in my presence. You see, you're one of the deadliest enemies of my race.

of. But when a woodchuck gets eating our clover and the vegetables, and spoils

le animals that can't help themselves, and have to eat what they can fi

lt a littl

s to earn our living," she explained; "and if

y, there is no reason why you should be so cruel. It hurts dreadfully to be caught in a trap, and an animal captured in that way sometimes has to suffer for man

ing sorry and repentant. "I'll as

ou wake up. But that isn't enough to settle the account for all our past sufferings, I assure you; so I am trying to t

" said the little girl, "yo

CHUCK AND

er Woodchuck, pausing in

revenge as it is to be se

. "But woodchucks are not perfect, any more than men are, so you'll have to take us as you find us. And now I'll call my fam

e cried, i

w, you will be before