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ETT Billy Mink Warns Bobby Coon BY THORNTON W. BURGESS (Copyright, 1919. Fe @ long time Billy Mink Robby Coon sat « the edge of the Laughing Bre Then Bobby, having finished what he had to eat, decided tt down the Laughing What he could find Bobby Coon e dering along Watching for ly como with playing in the Most as much curiosity 4 Rabbit. He simply has everything which appears » A shiny pebble in the wate shell, will catch his eyes, and he Stop to play with tt Rilly Mink watched Robby start t Wonder what he'll do when he comes to that Hittle fence,” thought Billy ®. to find out what Bobby would do, along down the Laughing Brook he followed him. When Bobby came | really wrong in at legst trying to go| to the little fence he sat down and/ thru that} stared at it in the funniest way Then he began to talk to himself. *That’s a funny th .” said he. OF by Nancy and Nick were v ko, their pet monke may. He had tak oebyutton eyes, an ind his long. lon ed altoget is red h Trouble begina; oth Tea and Cotfee lor Children mre Sins. wonder how that little fence happens fo be here, I've never seen it before. I wonder what it's for, Nobody has | Mink Pat Their Heads Together, ADVENTURES THE TWINS Olive Roberts Barton THE MAGICAL. MUSHROOM sad, for) grains run | a few ¢ black | some more down by the apple tree in it and disap ‘The twins (Nancy and Nick were | she thought of he ins) looked everywhere for him, it all they could find were a few “Why it must be that mushroom talking,” sald Nick. by T. W, Burgess) and, any business to bulld a fence like tha he only way I can get around way up that bank, and to do that." You know rather lay sat and looked at the fence, s made of aticks stuck ind, and the more he determined he be n't be stopped n't climb that didn't take him that right In the once was an opening eway, But it was a very ing. You see, it had been enough for Billy little nearer and sat down, his head cocked © aide as he studied that litte It's too narrow for me, but se sticks aside and make it That would be easier than} limbing that steep bank,” said he So Bobby walked a few steps near er and again sat down. Somehow, he had an uncomfortable feeling that something waa wrong. He didn't know why he had that feeling, but . Now, whenever one of the Treen Fogest has | men vey cau: | mpted to at once | y thru that litte! cause of that feeling | g was wrong, he hesi very carefully he ex:! ttle fence from the p bank clear to the edge of ater, He smelled of | each separate stick of that fence, but | he could sell nothing suspicious. | Those were just plain old sticks and} nothing elec. Finally he made up his) mind that there couldn't be anything | ad it . £ amined th bottom of t opening. He reached | forward w one foot to place it right in the middie of that opening. \| Stop! eried Billy Mink Next story: Bobby Coon and Billy f sawdust on the porch. and © grains near the gate, and | the crooked lane, Jocko had a little | rip in one side where the cloth waa} sewed and Nanc careless she had | been not to mend bim, and how thin] he must be getting. | They ran to the end of the lane and started thru the meadow toward the woods. But half way acrosa they stopped to rest in the shade of @ big chestnut tree Suddenly they heard someone call ing: the volee was very near. The children listened closely and this is what they heard: Please pick me so the cown won't step on me! Won't you please pick me” “Why it must be that mushrodtn talking,” said Nick in surprise “There isn't another thing round any- where” “TN pick you.” said Nancy, suiting | the action to the word. “Is that what you want? ‘Ob, thank, you,” said the mush. room, “I never meant to grow in « wow field. 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