| Show BURGESS BEDTIME STORIES J JOLD OLD ALAN N COYOTE DOES DOCS FOOL- FOOL FOOLISH IMI ISH THINGS By B Thornton W. W Burgess Burgas The rhe seeming 5 foolish may turn um out outTo outTo To 10 know Just what they are about Old Mother I Nature Old Man Coyote C ote had IUd left behind him the home of Polly pony Chuck and her family and the old home t-ome In which Johnny Chuck was living Il for the time being He didn't didn t look back until he was some rome little distance away Then just lust as us he expected he saw sat the black nose of Johnny Chuck in us the e doorway of his house Old Man Coyote pre pre- pretended pretended pretended tended to hunt mice Yes sir he pretended that he was hunting tun for Danny Meadow Mouse Mou He would and then creep cr p along a n little way suddenly spring as if he were Jump Jump- Jumping jump n were fug ing for a mouse I In no time at an all 1 Johnny Chuck was outside and sit sitting sIt sIt- sItting sitting ting right straight up t on his door door- doorstep doorstep doorstep step in order to see better A mo mo- moment moment moment ment or o- two later Polly Poll Chuck was doing the same thing on her door- door step Old Man Coyote chuckled inside Ho He chuckled all to himself Then he trotted on a little farther away and began rolling over and over In the grass Then ho he got up and chased his tall tail round and round He was doing foolish thins things At least that is the way it seemed to Johnny Chuck and Polly Chuck Presently the four young joung Chucks CAme out and sat on the doorstep and watched him All of them were so occupied in watching him that none looked in the other direction Old Man Coyote kept getting a little farther away and a little farther away By Dy and by he stopped doing foolish things and sat with his bade back toward the Chucks He was so far faraway away a 3 that there was no longer any any- anything anything anything thing to worry abut about a ut so far as he was concerned Polly Chuck ran over to tub rub noses with Johnny Chuck The four young Chucks remained on the doorstep for a awhile while hUe Then one by byone byone byone one they went out into Inlo the grass in search of or sweet clover Mrs Coyote hidden in the grass gras back of them I- I f I Presently the four young oung Chucks came out and sat on the door door- doorstep doorstep step and watched d him I waited alted patiently and watched She wanted them to get far enough away from their home for her to make sure of getting one and perhaps two If she could seize one and shake it to death she might be able to catch a second one before it could get back to the safety of the home High up In In the blue blue sky Ol 01 Buzzard was swinging ng In cir cir- circles cles Round and round round and round he hc sailed Looking L down he could see all that was going on below for his eyes arc are very nry wonderful He lIe could see sec Old Man Coyote and Mrs v Coyote He could see sec Johnny Chuck w and Polly Chuck He lie could see the four little Chucks He lie understood ex exactly ex- ex exactly exactly what was happening down there Matt Mali goodness said 01 Ol Buzzard to himself It It done look like Neighbor Coyote COole done wine be too smart for Neighbor Chuck this time It surely dol do I Ah reckons that some night there won wont won't t be so many Chucks on the Green Meadows as there arc are arenow now Ah Alt dont don't t like to see sec those little Chucks get caught No suh I dont don't like to see sec those little Chucks get caught caul ht But what can Ah do about it Ah dont don't believe e in meddling in other folks folks' business No suh Ah dont don't If Ah Alt was In Brer Coyotes Coyote's place I suppose Ah Alt would do Just the same Mme Mrs Coyote Coote is getting mighty close Ah Alt reckon better look the other way 01 Ol Buzzard looked the theother theother theother other way He dIdn't didn t want to see Mrs Coyote catch kh one of those young youn Chucks When he looked the other way he saw MW Farmer Browns Dro Boy Doy and at Farmer Drowns Browns s Boys Boy s heels trotted Bowser the Hound Its It's too bad muttered 01 Ol Buzzard that they didn't didn t start a little sooner Yes suh its it's Ls L's too bad badr r r Ah Au reckon they Is to be bo Just Juit too late Hello theres there's s Neighbor Ja Jay If he sees what's going on he wont won't mind meddling Sure enough Sammy Jay was as Just starting to fly across the Green creen Mead Meadows Mea to the Old patch Briar-patch where Peter Rabbit lived If he kept on the way he was heading he would pass al almost al- al almost most over the Chuck home and Wand of course he would tee see Mrs Coyote Copyright 1927 by T T. W V Burgess The next story Mrs Mrs Coyote Is Hurried |
