Show Burgess Bl Bedtime Stories MRS IRS COYOTE RETURNS By THORNTON S W. W BURGESS Forget Torget revenge twill t seldom pay I Get even in some other way Old Old Mother West Wind If ever there was a scared seared coyote that hat coyote was Mrs Coyote Covote when one of Buster Bears Bear's irrepressible cubs landed on her You know she had hadeen been een curled up fast asleep and dreaming dream- dream dreamIng Ing ng The young joung cub had been pushed by y his sister and when hen he saw what was going to happen he was as scar scar- scared scared scared ed as a young joung cub could be The result re result re- re result sult was he had all his claws out and his ils arms and legs were moving almost before he landed In his effort to get getaway getaway away Now Nowa a little bears bear's claws are sharp They dug Into Mrs Coyote I She wakened with a yelp of dismay and for tor a minute Mrs Coyote Covote and that little bear were all mixed up each trying to get away awa from the theother theother other Mrs Coyote didn't know who It t was She smelled bear and that was enough for her She had just been dreaming about Buster Bear and she was sure that this was was was' Buster Beat Bear himself So the Instant she was free she streaked down the path as fast as asler asher asher her ler feet teet would take her her taU tall be between be- be bet between tween t een her legs Meanwhile the little cub who had pushed her brother was rolling over and over oyer on the ground with glee Yes sir she was so o She kicked her heels h els Sh Sha fairly squealed l Ll W 1 tr They kicked and aid cuffed and scratched and bit As for her brother he lost last his temper Really he had been quite as badly frightened as had Mrs Coyote When Mrs Coyote started down the path he started up the path Now the memories of or little bears like lii-e the memories of little boys are short Finding he wasn wasn't t being chased he stopped Then very ery cau cau- cautiously cautiously cautiously he peered d behind him He saw nothing of or Mrs Coyote but he did see his twin sister rolling and kicking up her heels with joy Right away he became angry His Ills sister had plated placed t a joke on him It was she ehe who had pushed him bins and given him I such a fright Right away that little littlebear littlebear littlebear bear forgot all aU about Mrs Coyote and everything else except getting even cven with his sister He stole back Then I with an angry little growl he Jumped on her When she felt his sharp harp teeth and sharp claws clans she squalled for a moment Then she put her own sharp teeth and sharp claws to good use My M it was dreadful I They kick kick- kicked kicked kicked ed and cuffed and scratched and bit and clawed ed as only two little cubs can cnn Now all this time Mrs Coyote had been badly upset It hadn't hadn t taken her herlong herlong herlong long to know that she w wasn't t being followed Presently she heard the noise made by those two quarreling little bears b ars It came to her just lust what whai had happened She knew that thit It was not Buster Bear that had given her that fright but one of Busters Buster's cubs The thought made her angry It made her very angry Indeed It would have been bad enough to have ben been given such ouch a fright by Luster Euster Bear or by Mrs Bear but to be made to run by two little cubs hardly yet beyond their milk teeth was more than Mian any self self- respecting Coyote could bear Mrs Coyote snarled to herself hersel Ill teach those young joung cubs a lesson said she Ill teach them to show some respect to their elders ciders Ill I'll teach t ch them th m that they have no business over here in the theOld theOld theOld Old Pasture With the hair on her shoulders standing on end and with her lips drawn back In an ugly snarl Mrs Coyote boldly advanced towards where she could hear those two little cubs quarreling Wh i she reached the place where she could sec see them and discovered how very little they were all thought of or possible trouble left lefther her They The certainly were too small to fight her and she would teach them thema a lesson they would never forget out Without even en looking to right or left Mrs Coyote Coote hurried forward to a point from where with a single lean leaD she could land on those two little bears And still they didn't see her heror or suspect that she was anywhere near and no one but Sammy Jay saw someone else looking on It was vas Mother Bear Copyright 1927 by T T. T W W. Burgess The next nut story A Lively Time In Inthe Inthe inthe the Old Pasture |