The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-18
BURGESS BED-
 TIME STORIES
OLD MAN COYOTES GREAT IDEA Who never has n new idea Will not gain much from life I fear
 --OId Man Coyote.
By THORNTON W. BURGESS

OLD MAN COYOTES GREAT IDEA Who never has n new idea
 Will not gain much from life I fear
 --OId Man Coyote.
 Over at his home in the old Pas ture Old Man Coyote had gnawed a splendid big bone until 1t was pol ished. There wasn't scrap of any thing left on 1t. Then with his strong teeth he cracked that bone and feasted on the sweet marrow that was inside. When there wasn't so much as the smell of this left he gave a little sigh of satisfaction and contentment and stretched out for a rest in the sunshine.
 He licked his lips and grinned. Then he licked his lips and once Bowser the Hound and how he had fooled Bowser over in the Green Forest and by so doing had made a chance to get that splendid big bone.
 q suppose" thought he, "Bowser has bones like this often. My. but he is lucky. He certainly is lucky. 1 wonder how 1t would seem to never have to wonder where the next meal is coming from. I'll have to visit Farmer Browns again soon. I wish there was a place over there for a fellow to hide.
 Just then he remembered the stack of straw in Farmer Browns barn yard from behind which he had watched Mrs. Brown give Bowser that bone, and in a flash a great idea came to him. He grinned So much that it was a wonder he didn't laugh right out.
 The next morning, just as the Black Shadows were disappearing Old Man Coyote once more wac over back of Farmer Browns barn. All was still. No one was yet moving in Farmer Browns house. Bowssr was in his own snug little house asleep old Man Coyote stole over to tha; stack of straw and there he went to work. What was he doing? He was burrowing under that straw. Yes sir, he was borrowing under that stack of straw.
 He worked fast and 1t wasn't long before he had a hole under that straw, hole big enough for him to crawl into. Once out of sight un- der that straw he made a place big enough for him to turn around in It was snug and warm very, very comfortable indeed. Old Man Coyote grinned as he lay down in there facing so that he could peep out and see all that went on In Farmer Browns yard.
 This is the most comfortable piacc I have found this winter" thought ! he. Jack Frost and Rough Brother North Wind may do their worst foi all I care; I'll always be warm ir here. Best of all, can watch al that goes on in Farmer Browns yard | and never be suspected. l can learr the ways of everybody about hero and if I don't get plenty to eat my name isn't Old Man Coyote. This Is a great idea. Yes, sir, 1t is greai | idea. l ought to have thought of Il l long ago."
 By this time jolly. round, red Mr | Sun had begun his daily climb up IT the blue, blue sky, and there were many sounds from Farmer Browns house. Presently Farmer Brown ant Farmer Browns Boy came out t. milk and feed the cows and to feec | the horses and the hens. Bowser ths | Hound came out of his little house yawning and stretching, and wen over to the back door of Farmer | Browns house and whined until :. was opened for him.
 All this Old Man Coyote watched | Presently the pleasant odor of fry | ing ham tickled his nose and set hi' mouth to watering. He sniffed long ingly, but they were noiseless sniffs Black Pussy the Cat came out an, sat on the doorsteps while sh, washed her face. One by one tn, hens came out into the barnyard How Old Man Coyote did hate tn. wire fence around that yardl Farmel Brown and his boy went into tn, house for breakfast. Everybod, seemed to be having breakfa st everybody but Old Man Coyote.
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 Copyright. 1922, T. ". Burgess.) ] [ I.nx ,'