Show Little Stories for Bed Time By Thornton W. W Burgess BurgeS OLD GRAN GRANNY TY TOX FOX HAS A GOOD TIME From a a. snug hiding place up in the top of or a tall tall pine pine tree Bobby Coon looked down where in a a. patch of or moonlight tat eat at old Granny Fox The Green Forest rang with the deep voice of or Bowser the 1 Hound and arid every minute Il It drew nearer Bobby Bonby Coon oon shivered as he listened lie felt perfectly per per- sale no now lor he was sure that Granny Fox Fo would do just juet as 5 s said she fine would when she ha hud had told him to climb tho the tall pine tree She had prom promised Is cd to lead Bowser thor the lound a uk ay y y so o tha that Bobby Hobby Coon tr TU r rear f h moro more that night Still Bobby hobby shivered lor ho io could not help hell but think of or what might have happened if IC old Granny 1 Fox ox had not come cometo cometo cometo to help helD him You see leo It was WM his trades tracks that Bowser wan vas following and thought though he could have gotten away from ft-em Bowser Bow b by climbing a u tree Just as at ho had done bowser would have followed his tracks to the Farmer Far Fat right light tree and antI then have told mer Browns Brown's boy Down In the patch of moonlight sat sat- old ok Granny Fox and her hel sharp harp taco ruco wore a abroad abroad broad grin The Tho nearer came tho deep voice of or Bowser the Hound the broader grew that grin Granny Fox hadn't hat had any real Teal excitement roe for a a. long time and she was planning to have a D. good time fooling Bowser the Hound Bow Dow wow ow wow vow w o roared Bowser Dowser Ills hla nose in Bobby Coons Coon's tracks track Ill get that Coon this time Dow Bow wow wowS wow w-o-w w w o Then something queer happened happen cd It puzzled B Bowmer the Hound so 50 that he didn't know what to make malc of oC it IL Ills nose noso had been filled with the smell of or Bobby Coon but all of or a sud sudden he found that his noso was tilled with the smell 0 ol or Granny Grann Fox Bowser didn't know what to make malfe of it There was wal no mistake The Tho smell In those tracks ho In was following no now w was ls the smell mell 0 of ot Granny Grann Fox Right away Bowser forgot all nil about Bobby Coon You 5 SOB Granny Fox was an old enemy against whom Bowser held a u. grudge and anda a little ROtc note of or anger crept into Bowser's Bow Bow- sers ser's voice Old Granny GI-anny Fox sat and grinned until Bowser broke out into the patch of at moonlight moonlight moon moon- light and saw her She knew that he saw her by the great STeal roar roal that he gave save Then rhen as lightly as a shadow she he darted awa away through the Green Forest with Bowser Bowser Bowser Bow Bow- ser after her B Bobby bb Coon looking down clown from the top of ot the the tall tail pine tree sl sighed hed happily as ns ho he watched her for fOI now he felt safe once more Good old ohi Granny Fox She Isa isn't t half haIr so bad aa as folks Calks say she Is Is s lie he said sarti softly Theros Theres good in every one And faults in everybody tOo Forget the t faults and see sea tho the good goodla goodIs Is la we er e every one should do o And lAnd all the time that she was doing Bobb Bobby Coon such a good turn Granny Grann Fox was having a good time limo herself the kind of ot a D. good time she likes best She ran tan tanar ar around und In In- circles and crisscrossed her tracks s until the Hound was so 50 mixed up th l he roared an angrily Sometimes Sometimes Some Some- times S Granny Gi-anny sat eat at right in plain sight grinning as Site she watched Bowser Dowser trying to untangle the trail but Bowser dIdn't t know knowlt It Finally when she SIte gr W tired of ot this she led wa way vay WU way ui oft off until his voice could h hardly b be heard and then site she him lose the trail alto altogether I I 1 believe that old ohl fox ox has come back to the Green For Forest st und It if she te has Its It's or 01 no U use e to hunt for that coon fin my more marc m muttered Farmer 1 Bro nio bo boy In disgust as h he tramped home with his terrible gun |