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Show r Fair" Tale DADDY RACCOONS "Of course It's true," said Mother Raccoon, "that we -do like everything nice and clean. "But we put our feed In water to make It nice and soft oh, It Is so delicious when It is soft." "We don't eat anything that Isn't clean, do we, mother?" "You are right, my dears," said their mother. Sbe sat up high in a tree without any leaves even though it was summer sum-mer time.' She liked an old tree like this quite the best of all. "It's so delightful," she said, "to keep house in a dead tree. "And Daddy Raccoon, you are such a pleasant gentleman, and help so nicely with the marketing." How the raccoon children laughed and played. And what a fine meal they had! "When the summer Is further along we'll have fun,'' said Daddy Raccoon. Rac-coon. "Why?" the children asked. "Ah, then we'll steal corn from the corn fields. We'll go a-visiting where we can get goodies and summer vegetables veg-etables from farmers. "They don't ask us to come, It Is true, but we don't bother about such little trifles as Invitations." They had a happy family party, eating and chatting, and this was the A Happy Family Party. first one Daddy had been, at for a long time, as before the children had been too young and Mother Raccoon had been afraid he would eat them up. Daddy Raccoons have been known to do that, but once the children are a little bit older the daddy raccoons join their happy families, and the mother raccoons are quite pleased with it this way. |