Show animal lessons j k story for children by MARY GRAHAM BONNER now rb whenever enever you are near 1 water said father raccoon to bit children you mast must always wash your food that makes it so much cleaner father and mother raccoon are very clean and care a great 1 deal a b boot out hating having their food fresh anil and alee nice and clean ton you can eat a great real many things continued father raccoon yon you are allowed eggs of all kinds uh fish frogs turtles and all kinds of roll fruit and nuts the beet beat of 0 all yoa you haven it mentioned said the raccoon little ones nea ah all I 1 am keeping it so 1 l a lar our prise prime said bald father raccoon where are we asked th the 4 children going where asked rather ila echon he acted ai as though he h didat dida t know what the children meant dear me sighed mother raccoon the children know so much these days yes it was different in my fatime me I 1 dida didot t know abent treats and nd feas feass a until I 1 wa was told at that all the raccoon children laughed shrilly oh they said now yon you bare ht lt the cat out ot of un bas ball we dlan didn I 1 say may we knew that we were to be taken to a feast tent and to bare have a treat when our lesson were over let what cat out of 0 what baar asked mother raccoon 1 I have no cat and I 1 bare no bag what absurd nonsense joa you chit dren talk OV oh ald jd one of the raccoon washed every bit sit of food children that Is juit just in 0 o et pre eslon you know still I 1 dont understand aid said mother raccoon 1 I am not op up to date I 1 suppose an expression Is a saying said the raccoon children lit it Is something people jay say lots lot and lots of P wise people 0 3 e and ind it if Is supposed to be what does it mcany asked baked mother raccoon who wax was touch much puzzled I 1 wel I 1 it just mean means that tome some one has let the secret out or the thing that was supposed to be kept in why did they use the cat and bag for example oh I 1 don t know mid said the lit tie raccoon 1 I 1 dont doat bellere believe any one out knows how those expressions start but once they tart start every one tarts starts saying them so that they become or well known expressions well it la Is true said mother Bic coon we are going to have a treat and a feast yon yoi hare have all learnel your les let sons well said father and to we are solas going to bare bays a treat ica mother and fail er rae coon and all the little raccoons went off for a splendid east feast bat but eren even at the feast they all wished every bit of food before they ute lite it 11 in fact trey tiey bad their picnic by a brook and the raccoon parents arents were ere proud to see met bow how well their children bad boa learned their lessons Z ull 1131 wr wasters newspaper union |