Jasper, Like Frisky Squirrel, Was Fond of Nuts

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TUCK-ME-IN TALES

(Trademark Registered)

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THE TALE OF

JASPER JAY

BY

ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1917, by
GROSSET & DUNLAP

CONTENTS

THE TALE OF JASPER JAY

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I

A NOISY ROUGE

Some of the feathered folk in Pleasant Valley said that old Mr. Crow was the noisiest person in the neighborhood. But they must have forgotten all about Mr. Crow's knavish cousin, Jasper Jay. And it was not only in summer, either, that Jasper's shrieks and laughter woke the echoes. Since it was his habit to spend his winters right there in Farmer Green's young pines, near the foot of Blue Mountain, p. 2on many a cold morning Jasper's ear-splitting "Jay! jay!" rang out on the frosty air.

At that season Jasper often visited the farm buildings, in the hope of finding a few kernels of corn scattered about the door of the corn-crib. But it seemed to make little difference to him whether he found food there or not. If he caught the cat out of doors he had good sport teasing her. And he always enjoyed that.

Jasper was a bold rowdy—but handsome. And Farmer Green liked to look out of the window early on a bleak morning and see him in his bright blue suit frisking in and out of the