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Cute Little Heartbreaker
Happy Star Wars Day! Old Granny FoxThornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess But just where the Laughing Brook joins it there was a little place where there was open water. Billy Mink was on the ice at its edge, and just as Reddy got there Billy dived in. A minute later he climbed out with a Continue reading
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On My Honor
Happy Friday The Boy Scouts in A Trapper’s CampThornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess “In the top of this I cut a V or crotch, and after trimming off the lower limbs of the tree I rest it in this crotch so that the butt end projects some distance and is three or four feet above Continue reading
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C’est la vie
Another day without having won the lottery. The Adventures of Johnny ChuckThornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess These spring days were beautiful days on the Green Meadows. It seemed to Johnny Chuck that the Green Meadows never had been so lovely or the songs of the birds so sweet. he had forgotten all about his old Continue reading
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Muzzle to Muzzle Now
Today is officially one third of the way through this Leap Year. The Adventures of Jerry MuskratThornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess He forgot everything but his own surprise, and he blinked his eyes a great many times to make sure that he wasn’t dreaming. Then he sailed around and around in circles, looking down among Continue reading
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Marli
Four complete months down Mrs. Peter RabbitThornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess Perhaps he would have wanted this still more if he had known that it was she who had fooled her father, Old Jed Thumper, the big, gray, old Rabbit, so that Peter might have the long nap on the sunning-bank he so needed. “I’ve Continue reading
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Silent Ways of Wishing Now
120 books and counting The Adventures of Prickly PorkyThornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess Reddy looked at him sharply, but there wasn’t a trace of a smile on Unc’ Billy’s face, and Reddy couldn’t tell whether Unc’ Billy was making fun of him or not. So, there being nothing else to do, he went on. He Continue reading
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You Big Dummy!
Got myself a Discover Pass this morning (for out of staters, that allows access to Washington State Parks, in my case I paid for a year – a mere three uses pays for itself) and did a spontaneous walk on a trail at Twanoh State Park. Actually, it was more like a climb – a Continue reading
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When Flowers are Springing
Whitefoot the Wood MouseThornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess So his heart went pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat as he wondered if Butcher had seen him. He didn’t have to wait long to find out. Butcher flew to a tree back of Whitefoot and then straight at him. Whitefoot dodged around to the other side of the tree. Then Continue reading
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Couldn’t Prevent From Feeling Happy
After some long hours I slept like the dreaming dead and woke up ready to go in the 2am hour. Things are almost back to normal. Happy JackThornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess It was very clear that Happy Jack was watching for some one and that he was anxious, very anxious, indeed. It was getting Continue reading
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Got Any Grapes?
With the exception of a few nod-offs at red lights or stop signs I have been awake, literally, for 40 hours. I am getting this typed and posted before I pass out. The Adventures of Poor Mrs. QuackThornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess “Of course,” said she, “no really truly log has a mouth or is Continue reading
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