The Children's Christmas Story
By HATTXE BOYD SCOTT
Mr. Squirrel awoke one fine fall morning to find Mrs.
Squirrel out of (he nest.
After looking around and calling in a high squeaky voice, she 1
still did not answer and he became very disturbed.
In the fall they had gathered many nuts and acorns and had
buried them in a very special place. Papa Squirrel remem
bered this and decided sne had gone there for a late fall break
fast.
However, when he got there, she was nowhere to be found. So
now, he really became upset. He started calling and calling.
Finally, after a long time, he beard high up a very nervous,
shaky answer
There sitting on a limb and rubbing her eyes as the big tear
drops began falling was Mrs. Squirrel. Papa Squirrel landed
beside her and put his arms around her. He said, "My dear,
what can be the matter, you had me so worried when I found
you gone from our nest and you didn't answer when I called. "
"Well," she said, "I have had quite a fright. In jumping from
our tree to the ground, I landed on the Master's big yard dog.
Very careless of me, I'm sure? however, as I fell with all
force, he awoke with a start and started chasing me. Oh,
husband, you can not imagine how my heart started to beat so
fast, that I though I was going to faint and then that big 'ole'
dog would have had me, for sure. But, I beat him to the tree ! "
"Well, my dear," said Papa Squirrel, "let this be a lesson to
you. What would our children, when they come home, have
thought, if they found their beloved mother eaten up by a big
yard dog?"
"And what about me?" he asked. "My dear little wife gone,
and me a sad, lonesome Papa, with no one to talk to, and no one
to cuddle up to on cold mornings?"
So, they leaped from tree to tree until they were safely in
their nest high in the tree tops.
However, during the night, there came a bad wind storm
with rain, thunder and lightning, and blew Papa and Mama
Squirrel's home down to the ground. Being agile and spry, they
spent the rest of the night sitting on a limb cuddled close
together.
When the sun came up the next morning, guess what had
happened? - ? Looking out of my window there were all the
children who had come home to help Mama and Papa build a
new nest. They were all happy being together and loving each
other.
This is as it should be, the children loving Mama and Daddy
and helping them in all the ways they can, and holding the
family together with love and understanding.
"God takes care of all his creatures."
EDITOR'S NOTE? Mrs. Scott, 95-year-old resident of
Brehon Street, Warrenton, is the daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Will Boyd of Warren County and is the widow of
professional baseball pitcher Jack Scott. She wrote the story of
the squirrels this year as a gift to our younger readers.
Around War rent on
Lew Hege and Miss Laurie
Spencer of Apex attended the
Nutcracker ballet in Raleigh
Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Benton
and daughter, Sara, were week
end guests of her mother, Mrs.
Roy B. Shearin.
Jeff Palmer recently returned
from visiting his daughter, Betty
Harrington and her husband,
Pete, and their children, Lind
say and Peter, in Oakton, Va.
He also visited his son, Jeff, Jr.
in Arlington, Va.
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stay at Duke Medical Center.
Mrs. Lib Arlington of Raleigh,
Mrs. Nancy Kornegay of Rocky
Mount and Mrs. Estelle Cheek of
Littleton were luncheon guests
of Mrs. Helen Fanner last week
before visiting friends in town.
Mrs. Lucy Scott and Mrs. Hat
tie Scott attended the christen
ing of their great-niece in En
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Mr. and Mrs. George Tucker
and Ashly of Raleigh, Donna and
Dennis Blake of" Raleigh, Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Lark, Christopher
and Jonathan of Greensboro,
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son, Kiley and Crystal of Wise
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Forty Warren County members of the N.C. Museum of History
Associates attended the Associates' annual Christmas party held on
Dec. 1 at the museum in Raleigh. Coordinating the trip was Mrs. Jan
PerUnson, county co-chairman.
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Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Thompson, of the Macon community,
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Nov. 2t with abont 150
relatives and friends In the Warren Plains Baptist Church fellowship
hall. Hosting the event were their children, Mrs. Frances Sykes of
Durham, Mrs. Margie Robinson of Richmond, Va. and Mrs. Mellea
Laney of Wilmington.
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