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Show Little Stories for Bed Time ! Ij Tfeorntea W. Bntf. j JIMMT SmTrTK AND BTTXT MINK UAVB A DISPUTE. Blltr Mink cam calloplna along-rhronffh along-rhronffh tha a row tliat rovared tha -Von Uttla rath, biny rather enjovad tli now and tha aharn. froaty nlr. HI thtck, brown and black fur coat kept him a warm a ha wanted to aa and ha had no fear of Jack PYoeL Half way up tha Lone Uttla Path h mat Jimmy Skunk, who la a dlatant rouin. Jimmy waa ehuffUas alone and f rumbling rum-bling to hlmMlf. "III. Jimmy! lan't thl a great day?" cried Billy Mink. "I uppoe ao. If yon Ilk It." arum-bled arum-bled Jimmy Skunk. "I don't: It a too cold and I don't Ilk (now, anyway." "Pooh!" aitlalmad Hilly Xllnk. "you'r a pretty one, you are, to ba complaln-ln complaln-ln of the cold when you'v got on of th warmest fur coat In th Green Korea t or on the Oreen Meadow. If you don't like thj now, what did you com out fur?" "1 don't know. T don't know what 1 did com out for." replied Jimmy Skunk. "I think I'll So back home and leep for a wtill." "I would. If f war you, vou old grumbler!" laughed Billy Mink. "I beller th trouble with you, Jimmy, I that you ar too lasy to walk In the no. I e Peter Rabbit naa keen up the lne Uttla Path ahead of me." "You mean he ha been down th Lena l.lule Path." aald Jimmy Skunk. "I diHi't mean anything of the kind!" snapped Billy Mink, whose temper I rather abort. "I aald up and 1 mean up. "But Ptr Rabbit hasn't been up th Lone Llttl Path: he went tha other way." Insisted Jimmy Skunk betl-ostely. betl-ostely. "Jut look at hla track there!" "took at them yourself!" retorted Billy Mink. "There ara th two long prlnla of til two long hind feat, and right behind them ar th two llttl prtlita of hla two front ft. What are vou laughing air' Billy glared angrily at Jimmy Hkunk. "You mean th two llttl print of his front feet ara right In front, not behind, be-hind, the two long print of hi hind feet," replied Jimmy with a provoking grin. You'r twitd. Billy. You've trot him running up hill backward. Ha. ha. ha! Who vr baard of auuh a thing? Ha. ha, ha!" Billy Mink danced up and down and gritted hi tth, he waa ao angry. "What' th matter with yeur eves. Jimmy Skunk? What' th matter with your yeT" h ahouted. "You're th on who haa got Ptr Hahnll running run-ning baokwanie! Don't you know that Ptr punt hla hind feet In front of hi front feet when h la In m hurry? Yau ought to know Peter Rabbit wall nough by thl tlm to know that!" Jimmy Skunk stared at Billy Mink aa If h thought Billy had auddenly gona eraay. "Put hi hind feel down In front of hi front feet, repeated Jimmy Skunk. Whoever heard oi uch a thiag? Ho. bo, ho Who ever heard of such a thing?" Billy Mink' eyea snapped and be looked aa If ha would I aprin St Jimmy Skrsak. But Just than a new vole broka la. -fVnilMila. aqoabbla. aauakMa. What s Tot at -wbMal "What ara row two fallows' fighting about tht fin morning r' It waa Peter Rabbit hfrmMlf. Ttua, peter run!" cried Billy Mink. er, da ma! shouted Jimmy Skunk. Peter didn't know what ba ahould ran for. but Jnt to bilging he did run. "What did t tall yea,' srartyrf erlad Biny Mink. ' Jimmy Hkunk looked footlth and vary much aa if he couldn't believe hi own aye. Per Rabbit aid put his hind feet down in front of hi front . feet when he ran! In fact, that la th reason that Peter i make such long jumps. . |