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Show BOBBY COON GETS A FRIGHT nOBBY COON walked slowly down the bank of the Laughing Brook to the little fence with the little opening in it in which he knew a trap was hidden. Bobby was not at all easy In his mind. He didn't know much about traps. If he had known more about them than he did he would have been less afraid. Looking Look-ing across the Laughing Brook he could see a little brown form bounding bound-ing along the other bank in the moonlight. It was Billy Mink. He Alp V' sS All of a Sudden That Trap Jumped Eight Off the Ground. knew that Billy was not afraid and ti.at Billy was going to do on that side of the Laughing Brook what he himself had agreed to do on his side. Bobby approached the little opening open-ing in that fence made of sticks, and Studied it pnrnfnlUr R;n.. Ar:..i l--, said there was a tra o there, but look as he would, Bobby couidn't see a rign of one. Some wet, dead leaves lay in the little opening in the fence and nothing else was to be seen. Billy Mink had said the trap was under those leaves. Bobby wondered won-dered how Billy Mink knew. Billy had told him that there was no danger dan-ger except right in that little opening. open-ing. Very cautiously Bobby pulled away the dead leaves that covered the ground on his side of the little fence in front of the opening. He even dug down into the sand e. little. Presently Pres-ently his fingers caught something nara. He pulled them away as if they had been burned. Nothing han-pened. han-pened. Curiosity gave Bobby new courage. He dug away very carefully care-fully th leaves and ,nand at that particular spot and presently he uncovered something shiny. Anything Any-thing bright and shiny always interests inter-ests Bobby Coon. Again he touched it and snatched away his paw. Nothing Noth-ing happened. Then Bobby got hold of that shiny thing and pulled ever so gently. The leaves in the little opening in the fence moved. Bobby pulled again. Those leaves moved some more. You see, Bobby had hold of the chain of that hidden trap. Finding that there was nothing "ineciuua duuui uie cnam, coDDy continued to pull and presently there was the trap itself right in front of him. He sat down and studied it. He wondered how it worked. He was afraid of it but he was very, very curious. There it lay with its jaws spread wide. Bobby remembered remem-bered that Billy Mink had said that there would be no danger if he put his paw under it. Very cautiously he slipped a paw underneath. All of a sudden that trap jumped right off the ground. There had been a wicked sounding snap and those two jaws flew up and came together so swiftly that Bobby didn't really see what had happened. He had sprung the trap. Bobby didn't wait to see what had happened or what was going to happen hap-pen next. He almost turned a back somersault in his hurry to get away from the strange thing. He scurried scur-ried along back up the Laughing Brook as if he expected that trap would follow him. T. w. Burf-ess. WMD Service. |