Mexico Missouri message., 1916-06-22
WOODCRAFT STORIES
FOR LITTLE CHILDREN
Twelfth Story.
Bv L. Row Ferris.
Twelfth Story.
By L. Roy Ferris.


You know when it rains and rains and just keeps
raining fellow only look out of the window
and watch the raindrops chase each other down the
window pane on their way the little branch back of
the house that through the woods pasture it's
way the 1t gets fellows just to stay
in the house when he could be having much fun
saving wood and doing chores like all boys love to do
This is just the way Brother Coon felt about being
pinned up the house. only he doesn't have any window
pane for the randrops to down, but he has the
window all right that Brother Woodpecker made
Bunny Red Squirrel living just the way from
Brother Coon him stick his sharp of his
window and make the ugliest face because it rain
ing. He wanted go down and look for crawfish,
but who wants to out in storm even if they have
Ia good overcoat?
By and by the sun came out and Brother Coon
different fellow He smiled Brother Red Squirrel
and actually offered to help him gather some hickory
nuts but it was early spring and hickory nuts were
not ripe. | Brother Coon thought of that
About this time something happened that made him
smile enough. Blue Jay flying along and
said that the Orole said that Gentle Dove said that
Red Breast said that the Camp Boy coming back
the woods Red Breast knew, for he had just returned
with his wife and four babies The babies looked larger
than the Mother.
Besides when the birds tell anything it is always
the truth don't they always tell each other where the
bad boy lives who shoots the gum sling? Who ever
heard of any bird building its nest the porch of
Ia boy that will kill a bird?
Oh, Joy, Robin was right; Brother Coons sharp ears
heard the shish, shish of paddle and heard familiar
voice say, Il wonder how Brother Coon and all my little
friends by this tme?'
Mother Soft Shell and her four little softshels did
mot tall the log the creek the passed.
Fatty Bear sat log and dangled his feet into the
water he grinned the boy in passnghadnt the boy
helped him out of bad scrape when he going
Ito Neighbor Browns just to borrow something
Iout of the hen house and had been caught between
the rails?
Straight to the old campsde sped the canoe. The
nose of the touched the white sand in front of the
old camp site where Mother Turtle has her in which
are twentysiX white round eggs that look like white
marbles, with shells that not hard and SOFT
but just kinder sorter'.
"Hellow, old fellow" said the Camp Boy to the Coon
after he had landed and had removed his things Look
whom | have brought with me-. Brother Coon, busy
IpOking into the many mysterious packages, his
curly pal of four who the Camp boys brother
Many the tumble they had had together while
the Camp Boys house, and many is the lump of sugar
his little pal had helped him steal from the sugar bowl
But OF course mustn't tell anybody about that
Where is the pretty Butcher Bird that sticks the wig
CLING thorn ii he has left over from
dinner Where is the little Brown Wren that always lays
three eggs the three little fellows that are already
hatched do the Matching for their mother, which
gives the Mother time to visit and gossip Bunny
Rabbit, ah, there he is"
Bunny stuck his head from a bunch of grass and
twisted his and wigged his whiskers as much
say We'll can believe my eyes, if there isn't the Camp
Boy again.
! 1t not long before the delicious odor of bacon
was in the breeze and rustng in the leaves by
caused Bunny Rabbit to say he prepared rum 81
wonder what that is p
Sister Possum remarked 81 guess you ought to know,
when the bacon smells so good.
Sure enough there was old Brother Black Snake.