Show ta fa thornton we burgess Burc fess I 1 at J J J S d SAMMY JAY GIVES HIS MESSAGE V I 1 IY JA JAY has been the bearer QU af so many messages that no one knows better than he how to deliver one he knows when to be polite and no one can be more polite than he first he went over to the home ot of reddy and granny fox and invited them to come over to the hill where prickly porky lives and see the terrible creature which had frightened them to give old man coyote a scare both reddy and granny promptly said that they would do nothing of the kind that probably sammy was engaged in good morning mr coyote I 1 hope you are feeling well said sammy in his politest manner some kind of mischief and that anyway they knew that there was no such creature without had legs or tail and though they had been fooled once they propose to be fooled again all right replied sammy quite as it if it made no difference to him you admit that smart as you are you were fooled and we thought you might like to see the same thing happen to old man coyote with this he flew on his way to the green meadows to look for old man coyote and as he flew he chuckled to himself be there he muttered 1 I know them well enough to know that nothing would keep them away when there Is a chance to see someone else frightened especially old man coyote try to keep out of sight but be there sammy found old man coyote taking a sunbath sun bath good morning mr coyote I 1 hope you are feeling well said sammy in his politest manner ay ly y fairly thank you re ejk ild d man coyote all the time h wa watching ch ing sammy sharply out of the corners comers of his shrewd eyes the news in the green forest there any that is none to amount to anything declared sammy 1 I never did see such a dull summer Is there any news down here on the green meadows 1 I hear danny meadow mouse has found his lost baby so I 1 hear replied old man coyote 1 I tried to find it for him you know I 1 believe in being neighborly sammy grinned tor for as he said this old man alan coyote had winked one eye ever so little and sammy knew very well that if he had found little mite danny meadow mouse would never have seen him again way said sam sammy my in the mok Cotter oater of tact fact tone as I 1 was wa s through the green forest I 1 saw peter rabbit over on the hill where prickly porky lives and peter ier seems to have been in some kind of trouble he was so lame that he said he dare try to go home to the old brier patch for tear fear that he might meet someone looking for a rabbit dinner and he knew that feeling as he did he be able to save himself peter is going to come to a bad end some day if he watch out that depends on what you call a bad end replied old man coyote with a sly grin it might be bad forneter fo or peter and at the same time be very good for or someone else sammy laughed right out one way of looking at it said he well I 1 should hate to have anything happen to peter because I 1 have lots of fun quarreling with him and should miss him dreadfully I 1 think ill go up to the old orchard and see what is going on there off flew sammy in the direction of the old orchard and once more he chuckled as he flew he had seen old man coyotes ears prick up ever so little when he had mentioned that peter was over in the green forest so lame that he dare go home old man coyote will start for the gree forest as soon as I 1 am out of sight thought sammy M Y and that is just what old man coyote did do 0 T W burgess service |