Show I zt esl 01 MAX X COYOTE HIMSELF IS I Dy By I v. It BURGESS Who cannot trust his eyes and andears cars ears carsWill Will subject be to foolish Coolish fears Old Old other Mother Nature The great mystery of ot the tho Green GreenMeadows Gr GreenMeadows en Meadows and the Green Forest had hall left leCt a most uneasy feeling everywhere c In a a. way it lt It was T as worse than when Old Man Ian Coyote had bad first come there to live Then for lor a II while before tho the other peo peo- people people pIe had become acquainted with him and learned about him there had been great uneasiness and fear But B t Old OM Man Ian Coyote had hat now lived there thero so long that tho the smaller people thought no more about him than they did about Reddy Reddy- Fox Thy felt Celt that they knew him and his ways nays But since his voice olce had been heard hear in into two t places at practically call the tho same time and since some of ot the little people were sure that they had hall seen leel him in two t o places at practically practically practically cally the tho same time lime he had be be- become become come even ell more moree mysterious than when he be was as a I. I total stranger stran But nut the queer que r part of ot it alt all la LI lathat that Old Man Inn Coyote himself Know what to make of or it No Xo sir he You Tou see Old Min Man Coyote Co ol had pointed his his' nose noso to the sky and yelped Just jut lor for lorhe forthe the he sake sale of 01 hearing his own voice voi e. e He lie had lad been sitting sit tin on his own doorstep the first time limo he ho i did it l it it- Almost Almo t at once that yelp was WM re repeated re- re repealed pealed from over on the edge of or the Green Forest orest l Old Man an Coy Coyote oY otc ole had difficulty In believing his lily own own ears carl He tried tricel It once more and again the same Gamo thing happened It It must be an echo said Mid Old Man Coyote to himself Yes res sir It must be bean an an echo But nut I dont don't understand why Ive I've never heard It before If It it is 18 an echo It ought to come coine from the Great Mountain and not from frem the th Green Forest Ill I'll try tr it once more So Old Man Mm Coyote tried it ft once more and once more he had the same result It gave pave him a queer feeling all over o clear to the lip tip j i r rt rIt t It mutt mint l he 10 c an echo ClIO said al l Old Man to lo himself of or his tail For a a. long lime time h he was puzzled puzzle but all II II the time Ume he was listening as only Old Man Ian IanCo Coyote Co ote can listen Then he point v cd ed his nose noso skyward and one once more that startling voice olce of ot his hi rang out Promptly It was repeated re repeated re- re from the tho edge edle of 01 the Green G rEen Forest Old Od Man an Coyote felt almost afraid He Ho decided he wouldn't go hunting Instead he went back Into his hU house and the he was as heard no more moro that night nl The next night Old Man Ian Coyote Co ote that decided he e must have o been ee 1 mistaken Ho lie decided that a It just couldn't be that ho he had lad heard his hig own vole voice vol c echoed rom morn the Green Forc t. t He decided that It must have e been an echo ch but that it must have hayo come corrie from tho the Great Mountain and he had only on I Imagined that It came from the edge of 01 tho Green Forest Foret l ore t. t So this time Old Man Ian Coyote Coote trotted over o overto overto to tine the foot of ot the tho Great moun moun- mountains mountains mountains and there he once more sent his voice yelping and chat chat- chattering chattering out on on the night air At t tonce once it came back hack to him and It came camo back to him from the tho Green Forest If I it was an echo that echo was over oyer in the tho Green Grren For For- est He lie had h d proved for lor him him- himself himself self that It had ad not come from Crom the Great Mountain I never heard of ot anything like It muttered Old Man Ian Coyote Co ote to himself Ive I've lived around arou nd here herc herca a long time lime and last night was the first time lime that ever I heard an echo from the Green Creen Forest an echo Why it is Jg as aI i ud as my m own v voice olce Old Man Coyote didn't howl honl again that night lIe He was waI too loa up up- set He lie tried to to make believe c that all he had beard heard was as an echo but he couldn't understand how there could be such su h an echo So as soon as he e had caught a afew afew afew few mice he returned to his home up In the tho Old Pasture to try to study out the matter Th The next Old Man Ian story Coy Coy- Coyote CO Coyote ote Hears a a. Rumor Humor |