Show I Bonny COBBY COON GOES ROES BACK D TO TOlU TOBED lU DEl By Dy Thornton iS W Burgess Who stays at home In bed will be Prom b-Prom From danger dancer In a measure free Bobby Dobby Bobby Coon Bobby Coon has hIlS a a way vay of wak- wak wakIng wak-Inz wak lag Ing up once In s a a while In the win win-I win win winter ter and coming forth to see ace c If tr Itis It is time to stay tay up but until spring really realty arrives arrive he h usually gots got's back to bed again after a short look around It happened that Bobby felt the th touch of or spring In the th air Perhaps he h heard the sap eap p going up In the th tree In which he h hat had been spending the winter for tor although that tree was hollow It W wi 88 not dead and It was a a maple Anyway Bobby Coon awoke yawned a few times stretched o and finally climbed up to his doorway The Tha sun was wa the th Air 11 wa was soft For Fora Fora a long lonc tim time Bobby obby sat at there cn en cn both What he didn't en y j y Jy was the sight of the snow which still covered the ground Mistress Spring Isn't here yet tt after atler all sll mumbled Bobby No sir air Mistress SprinG here after arter all alt Just Juet Ju t the th same me I think Ill I'll take tak a 11 little walk I think Ill I'll look around a a bit Bobby started to climb down from the doorway of ot his hi home when suddenly he heard a a fa- fa familiar fa familiar voice of Sammy Jay Sammy was WI t r r reaming Thief Thier Thief Thief Thiet as a only Sammy can Bobby obby paused He knows Sammy Jay so o well that he h knows when Sammy means a a thing and ane when he h Is trying trying- to fool some someone someone one lIe It knew that now Sammy tammy saw aw pome corn ome ono one on and that this was a arel rell danger donger signal Probably he be h sees ec neddY Fox or Old Man Coyote mumbled Bobby Coon to himself I never saw aw such uch a fellow as Sammy Jay I lIe Is forever crying crying- Thief Who Who- Whoever Whoever Whoever ever It la Is I that Sammy seu cees B e Is ii I corn com comIng lot corn leg Ing this way for tor Sammy Is ii tel tel- following fol lowing and he h Is coming nearer Perhaps It Is Buster Dear Bear Ill I'll stay lay right here until whoever It ItIs itIs ItIs Is has h passed So Bobby without changing hi his position walled alted and watched Thief Thief Thief cried Sam Sam- Sammy Sam Sammy my ny Jay a a little nearer A few moments later It was nearer still till Thief Thief Thief Plainly Sammy was WI sery ery ry much upset And then Bobby Coon Coot very ery nearly lost his hi balance and fell Yes Yes sir air he Ito Came cam very near do- do do doing ing tog that very thing Ills His HI eyes looked as AI a It if they were going g to jump right out of his fits head bead His HI Bobby obby hadn't that such finch a abig big bis Cat lived In all the world mouth hung open aj u If tt he had lost the th power of or closing it Ing silentlY easily came caine what looked to Bobby like Black Pussy Farmer Browns Brown's Brown Cat with a yel- yel yel yellowish lowish coat Instead of a bl black ck coat and grown to be a giant I Bobby hadn't believed that such euch sucha eucha ucha a big Cat lived Jn tn all the th world Of course you know who ho It was w It was WAa wa Puma the Panther the Lion Just then Puma looked up and saw aw Bobby Bobby saw aw the hungry look in Pumas Puma's eyes eye With Witha a bound Puma was at the th foot of that tree tre Then and only then did Bobby Coon move lIe H turned and and scrambled back Into his house and he h wasn't any too soon loonIn In ge ng there He heard the cl claws s of or Puma the Panther on the bark is liS Puma came cam up the trunk of that tree lie II heard beard Puma sniff at t the tho th doorway And Ane Andas as aI Bobby listened little cold chills played tag all over him lie He H felt ery small m ll and Ho lie had hadnot hadnot hadnot not had such a a feeling felling of ot fright ht since Inc he h was wa a very little fellow lie heard Puma snarl knarl with disappointment as a he h tore tor at the th edge of the opening and failed to tear It was wa then that Bobby Dobby Coon decided to stay slay abed He decided that lie he would stay alay tay abed just as aj long tong as he h possibly could He H hadn't any any delre to togo togo toeo go outside CopyrIght 1921 by T W tV Burgess The Th next story Paddy the Del Beaver Wonders |