CHAPTER XVI Old Man Coyote is Very Crafty.

Coyote has a crafty brain; His wits are sharp his ends to gain.

There is nothing in the world more true than that. Old Man Coyote has the craftiest brain of all the little people of the Green Forest or the Green Meadows. Sharp as are the wits of old Granny Fox, they are not quite so sharp as the wits of Old Man Coyote. If you want to fool him, you will have to get up very early in the morning, and then it is more than likely that you will be the one fooled, not he. There is very little going on around him that he doesn't know about. But once in a while something escapes him. The coming of Paddy the Beaver to the Green Forest was one of these things. He didn't know a thing about Paddy until Paddy had finished his dam and his house, and was cutting his supply of food for the winter.

You see, it was this way: When the Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind first heard what was going on in the Green Forest and hurried around over the Green Meadows and through the Green Forest to spread the news, as is their way, they took the greatest pains not to even hint it to Old Man Coyote because they were afraid that he would make trouble and perhaps drive Paddy away. The place that Paddy had chosen to build his dam was so deep in the Green Forest that Old Man Coyote seldom went that way. So it was that he knew nothing about Paddy, and Paddy knew nothing about him for some time.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Is coyote creative?
2. Is anyone more creative than him?
3. who is he compared to?
4. who is smarter?
5. how can you trick him?
6. will it work?
7. how often does something get past him?
8. when has it happened?
9. like who has done it?
10. what did he do?
11. when did coyote find out?
12. who didn't want him to find out?
13. why?
14. how?
15. where is Paddy's dam?
16. would it be easy for coyote to find?
17. why?
18. what else was Paddy doing while making the dam?
19. where did the Merry little Breezes travel?
20. why?

Numbered answers:
1. yes
2. no
3. old Granny Fox
4. Old Man Coyote
5. get up very early in the morning
6. probably not
7. very little
8. once in a while
9. Paddy the Beaver
10. came to the Green Forest
11. when Paddy had finished his dam and his house
12. the Merry Little Breezes
13. they were afraid he would drive Paddy away
14. by making trouble
15. deep in the Green Forest
16. no
17. Old Man Coyote seldom went that way
18. cutting his supply of food for the winter
19. over the Green Meadows
20. to spread the news