Show Little Litile Stori Stories s for Bed Time By Thornton W. W Burgess Durgess BOBBY COON GETS A WETTING BObb Bobby C Coon on was v trolling along the bank of thc the Laughing Brook Ho lIo was trying tring to decide whether to to go fishing or not He dearly loves love to fish does Bobby Coon and he lie sometimes sometimes' goes fishing when he ought to bo ho attending to other things No Now while Bobb Bobby Coon loves O to fish he hc isn't like lIko Billy Mink Unk r Joo Joe Otter Olter who spend half their mid a in the water rind and by faster than the fish O can Bobb Bobby has hns a long coat coal and he isn't any to toO loo fond of f getting It wet vet He catches fisIt from front the shore There isn't t anything much quicker than BobbyS Bobby little black paw when he lie sees a fish within reach But If It Bobb Bobby Coon doesn't like to go in tn swimming Jie he Ie does like to play Ia In and around the water and so 50 this bright morning as he came down the Laughing I Broo Brook he stopped at ever every lit tie tle pool to pla play By and andr by his shar sharp eyes CIes spied something bright and shiny on th the bottom of or a n tiny pool Now Bobb Bobby Coon can no more pass I anything bright and shiny than he can pas a good m meal al when hen he lie sees It He Ho simply has got ot to to have It It It doesn't make mako any Rny difference what It Is lie he has hasIot got to ha e It it So when nhen he saw sa this something glittering and shining up at him hint from rom the tho bottom of the tiny pool he for forgot ot all au about fish First he plunged one arm In In way ay up imp to the tho Rho shoulder It was Mas of or no use at all The shiny thing was Mas too far out from front tho time bank hanle He Its waded In a little way war but still he couldn't reach It JolI Jolly round lound red Mr Sun look looking lookin In down lawn from torn the blue sk sky laughed at Bobby Coons Coon's efforts I and nd when he lie lau laughed hed the bright thing glittered glit gilt more morr than ever and the more It glittered the tIme more moro Bobby Coon COO wanted it Bobby sat down on the bank to study how he ho could get his lila hearts heart's desire for It groined to him no now that ho wanted the th shiny thing thIn more than anything in the tho world Presently ho he noticed rl anold anold an anold old 10 log half In time the water and half hat on the shore Bobbys Bobby's i cyc cs brightened If It I get et out on the end of at that perhaps I Ican Icart cnn cart reach that shIn shiny thing I believe I Ican can said ho to himself Very cautiously he crawled out on In th tho old log It wasn't a 1 acry cry very big log oJ and It was smooth and ami er very ery slippery As Aa ho ho lie g cot lt out oLit toward towi the end of or It It began to sink lower and low or r In hi th the water Bobb s feet Ceet were wert wet hut but ho he I didn't seem to 10 mind that He lie wi was right over that shiny shimmy timing tiling now lInn Hanging hl tu to the old lo log with will his feet teet and ono one hand ho he reached down down till the tips Ups of his r k-r I ill ill lii ri ii II n fingers Just Jut touched d th the brIght shIn shiny thin thing And r right then the old Dirt log OK j 0 ana n a a 8 sudden lurch lid and with u It t tremendous splash In went Coon Con head had first I Up Un on hank bank Rabbit emit am and Skunk and auth Billy shouted nd danced and amid up their I hals They Tho had haci torn COmp ome Alon Just In III time lo mc HC sen Bobby Bobb Coon o n crawl out on on the thc old oM lo log Then one ono of or I them hem ha had slipped n ilo and ant given Jhen the old lo los log a pu push h at al Just Jus the tho ri right Al tt l' l hobby Coon you WOlf too fco mad maLl 0 to toM M oaK lak but h b tn the time ho had hat blown nil all the time wa valor r out Omit of ot hi his note nose and shaken It II of oC hl his hIlS oars ears and amid ho hr l I san to I o sect her the time B sl he didn't Know Imo which of lIt the thrpo o little Ic scamps on au time bank batik In blame Mame and amid he ho dicing to iu rr l 1 with p So ho hp JoIned In the laugh h too And nd nun M heln being In Jim all allover allover over there therl was X nothing to lo prevent get get- that bright shiny thins thing What was It 11 bi hut a crap of or tin sight Night Th Till rho Neatness 1 of or Bobby Bobb Co Coon n. n |