Show V Little Stories for Bed Time L By BT Thornton W. W Burgets ea I BOBBY COON TAXES TAKES HIS IDS OWN MEDICINE Bobby Coon had been out all V night and V he was tired and a s o 0 sleepy that tb-at It I was all aU he could do to climb up to his I homo homb In In the Ule hollow ta tree No sooner did 1 he he- V tumble V ln In n obed oo o than he ho was fast tast asleep V I Now Bobby Coon Is a great practical Joker There Is Is n nothing that he likes I better than to a Joke joko on some 0 of the little people of th the the- Green Meadows I and the Green For Forest Forast t and every night I after he he VV has ShIed filled hIs Jils ho he goes about playing tricks V 1 Ever E since ince Ute tile morning when Johnny Chuck had slept until ne noon because because because be be- beI I cause B had covered his doOrway door I way with hay so that no light could get Iet down clown to his lila bedroom and so 80 ho didn't know when to get up Johnny had been trying to think of or some somo plan to get oven with Bobby Coon He Ho HeV V had called In Jimmy Skunk who had spent all of or one ono morning trying to find his own house which Bobby Coon had burled buried In Hand and while out hunting for beetles bee bee- Suddenly enly they they heard heard sound in the tho I big hickory which made Jimmy Skunk Jump up and dance a a. Jig 1 I i 1 h have It he be shouted Do you au V hear Drummer the Woodpecker Well We'll get him to help us So 80 It happens that Bobby Coon had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been asleep in his hollow tree more than half an hour when Into his dreams broke the sound of ot knocking Bobb Bobby waked up to murmur sleepily V Go Go way fay Theres There's nobody home hems But th tho knocking kept right on tap tap tap tap Bobby couldn't get to sleep again try V as he would V Go way jV I I say he called crossly crossty The only reply was as tap tap tap tap B Bobby crawled out of or bed and climbed up to his do doorway Wb When n he ho stuck his head out th the tho sun made V him blink and almost blinded him He rubbed his eyes with both fists and then be jue looked to see seo who h hid had d knocked N Q one one was to be seen Th There re wasn't a a. sign of or an anyone onca a anywhere Could he have hae dreamed that someone was wits knocking He Ho must have He Ho took one more more look around and then scrambled back to bed No No sooner had he begun to d doze than there began a terrific noise tat tat rat tat a-tat a tat tat a-tat It seemed as If It was right In his ear V Bobb Bobby Coon as V wide awake this time as aSI he bo scrambled up to his doorway and he was mad way ay through H He knew now who was making such auth a racket lacket t It I V V. V was Drummer th the W Woodpecker r. r If tr he wanted to drum he could V Just go 10 find sonic some other hollow tree I Bobby stuck his head out No one ona was to be e seen en but this time the noise didn't stop Oh m my no It was louder them than ever orr but It come from the b back ck side aide of ot the tree V Bobby Bobby- crept out and very quietly crawled around the tree but when he lie got to the b back ck side no one was nas to be bo seen been seen and rind the tat rat tat a tat a-tat tat a-tat was as louder than cV over eVer r and arid came from the front frontS Back went i Bobby wIth Ith the th same result as before V Then he lost his temper tern tem per pcr arid and scrambled round and round the tree ns as fast as he lie could but never nevel once did ho catch sight of ot Drummer who Just V went around the tree as a's ns as' fast as Bobby did lid and all the time kept up a terrific drumming V V Finally Bobby Coon stooped to get his lila breath He ha- ha happened to look down and there thero he aw saw Johnny Chuck and Jimmy I Skunk rolling over o-er and over o on th 1 ground with laughter Gradually Bobby Coon began to see the Joke jake 1 V I 1 said laId guess uess you fellows felloes are ON even en he lie No Now d do let me sleep a It little S So art after r awhile Jimmy Skunk and J Johnny Chuck called oft off Drummer the I Woodpecker er and Coon went b back ck to bed ed V V I |