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Show Thornton W Burcfess : made up his mind never to set another. an-other. But if he had known this it would have made no difference. Old Man Coyote would have been afraid that Farmer Brown's Boy might take it into his head to try to dig him out and kill him or hide near by to shoot him with his terrible gun. No, sir, he never could live in peace in that home. There was no question about that. "And it was such a nice home!" sighed Old Man Coyote. "It Just suited me. I don't believe I will be able to find another place to suit me half as well. And to think of all the work I put into this!" He sighed. Then, because when he once makes up his mind to do a thing he does it quickly, be turned OLD MAN COYOTE GIVES UP HIS HOME CX1R most people moving is con-" con-" siderable of a job. There is a lot of packing up, and when the new home is reached everything has to be unpacked and put in just the right place. Most people dread moving. mov-ing. With the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows Mead-ows changing .from one home to another an-other is different. They have nothing noth-ing to carry but the clothes on their backs, so there is no packing or unpacking. Just the same, it usually usual-ly means a whole lot of work. You see, most of them build their own houses. That means if they have to move from where they have been living they cannot go out and find another house all ready for them to move into as you and I can. They have got to build that new house. There are a few, just a few, who are not particular or at all fussy and are willing to live in old houses left by other people, but even these have to be fixed up a little usually. So most of them won't move, particularly par-ticularly in the middle of the season, unless they feel that they must Old Man Coyote felt that he must He felt that never again would he have a moment's peace of mind so long as he continued to live in his present home in the far corner of the Green Meadows. Old Granny Fox had led Bowser the Hound to it, and Bowser had led Farmer Brown's Boy to it, and the latter had set traps all around it To be sure, he had come that very day and taken away those traps. Old Man Coyote had watched him from a hiding place and had wondered at what he saw. Of course, he couldn't know that Farmer Brown's Boy bad had a change of heart that he had begun to realize how terribly unfair and cruel traps are and so had "And It was such a nice home!" sighed Old Man Coyote. his back on the far corner of the Green Meadows without even going to take a last look at his home and started to look for another. And that is how it happened that when Sammy Jay came hurrying back from the Green Forest to tell Old Man Coyote how he had followed fol-lowed Farmer Brown's Boy all the way home and had seen him throw his traps down as if he didn't intend to ever use them again, he could see nothing of Old Man Coyote. "Perhaps he's in his house." thought Sammy, and called his very loudest. But no one appeared, and, without knowing just why. Sammy had a feeling that there was no one at home. "Must be he hasn't come back yet," thought Sammy. "I'll wait a while." So Sammy waited as patiently as he could, which was not very patiently, pa-tiently, for patience is a virtue of which Sammy Jay has little. At last he gaye up and disappointedly flew back to the Green Forest "I'll call again tomorrow," thought he. And that is what he did. and the next day, and the next day, and the day after that. At last he began to suspect what was the truth that Old Man Coyote had deserted his old home. Sammy scratched his head thoughtfully. "1 wonder,"" thought he, "if he has left the Green Meadows and the Green Forest." fAssocialed Newspapers WNU Service.! |