Show Y tl i VT D VJ burdess 3 U J t c SAMMY LEARNS ABOUT MR AIR COYOTES no matter where your home may be though north or south or cast or west of all the places on the earth I 1 it Is to you the very best 0 OF F COURSE it is it is very right and proper that it should be peter rabbit says that he think much of anyone who think his own home the very best place in the world just because it is home you love it and you love all its surroundings even when they are not at all beautiful and so when it happens that you move your home to some other place you think of the place you have left and there is a great deal of love and affection 5 C 01 Is it as great and wide as the green Alea meadows dows asked sammy jay i for it in your thoughts that is i just list the way it was with old man coyote he was living on the green meadows and he was very well satisfied there but once in a while his thoughts would go back to his old home the home where he had learned a great deal of the cleverness which made him the smartest and most feared of all the green meadows people he never had mentioned that old home until now sammy jay had said that he would like to hear about it and somehow old man coyote felt just like telling about it jt it was in the west the great wide wonderful west said he with a faraway look in his eyes Is it as great and wide as the green meadows asked sammy jay old man alan coyote looked at sammy pityingly so much greater and so much wider that I 1 could trot and trot for days and days and not reach the edge he replied sammy looked as if this was hard to believe but he said nothing and old man alan coyote continued the sky was bluer the grass was greener and the very air was sweeter than any you have known sammy had it on the tip of his tongue to say that he believe a word of this because no sky could be bluer than the one over them that very minute no grass could be greener than that of the green meadows and no air could be sweeter than that which he breathed every day but just in time he remembered that old man alan coyote was talking ing or of his old home and that that made a difference sammy was smart enough to know that these things might seem so much better to old man coyote just because they concerned his old home so sammy held his tongue and listened while old man coyote went on out there is room plenty of room for everyone room enough to turn around without hitting your tail against your neighbor theres plenty to eat and life is really worth the living out there dont you think it worth the living here asked sammy 1 I notice you took the greatest care not to get in one of those traps if it is such a wonderful place why did you leave it to come here to the green meadows old man coyote hung his head just a wee bit as if ashamed of something 1 I leave it because I 1 wanted to he replied in a low voice sammy stared down at old man coyote in round eyed wonder somehow he think of anybody who could make anyone so smart as old man coyote do anything he want to why why did you leave then he asked because I 1 was caught in one of these things and taken away growled old man coyote in a very low voice as if both angry and ashamed that such a thing could happen oh gasped sammy in a low voice oh I 1 thought you knew all about traps 1 I was careless replied old man coyote very simply associated newspapers service |