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Condé - -Release Date: October 8, 2022 [eBook #69117] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading - Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from - images generously made available by The Internet - Archive/American Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE JUMPING KANGAROO AND THE -APPLE BUTTER CAT *** - - - - - - -THE JUMPING KANGAROO AND THE APPLE BUTTER CAT - -[Illustration: “READ IT TO ME, CARRIER PIGEON.”] - - - - - _The_ - JUMPING KANGAROO - _and the_ - APPLE BUTTER CAT - - _By_ - JOHN W. HARRINGTON - - _Illustrated by_ - J. W. CONDÉ - - _NEW YORK_ - McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. - _M C M_ - - Copyright, 1900, by - McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. - - - - - _To His Daughter_ - RUTH, - _For Whose Entertainment - these pages - were originally written_, - THE AUTHOR - _Dedicates this Book_ - - - - -TABLE OF CONTENTS - - - CHAPTER PAGE - - I Jumping Jehosophat 13 - - II Yellow Lion and Hedge Hog’s Scribbling 23 - - III The Ant’s Aunt Gives a Picnic 33 - - IV Their Fat Friend 43 - - V White Rabbit’s Cheese Scruple 53 - - VI About the Apple Butter Cat 63 - - VII Gray Mouse’s Rich Brother 73 - - VIII At the Church Mouse’s Circus 83 - - IX Hoot Owl Invents Golf 93 - - X How Ugly Dog Stopped the Car 103 - - XI Sly Fox Gets His Picture Taken 113 - - XII At Little Monkey’s Swimming School 123 - - - - -JUMPING JEHOSOPHAT - - - - -I - -JUMPING JEHOSOPHAT - - -Kerchug, the leap frog, was all the time jumping. He stood every morning -on the edge of the pond where he lived, and said to all the birds in the -trees above him: “Isn’t it wonderful how I can jump?” Then all the birds -would flap their wings and sing a song which began, “Isn’t it a treat to -see our leap frog jump so far?” - -One day Kerchug made a great big jump into the middle of the pool, and -then swam back to the stone from which he always made his jumps. He -waited for the birds to flap their wings and to sing about his jumping, -but not one of them took any notice of him. Instead of that, he found -Carrier Pigeon roosting on a log near the pool and looking very solemn. - -“Wasn’t that a great jump?” asked Kerchug. - -Carrier Pigeon shook his head, and took out from under his wing a little -paper envelope, which he gave to Kerchug. Kerchug opened the letter and -when he had looked at it he turned white under the chin. - -“Read it to me, Carrier Pigeon,” he said, “I’ve just come out of the -water, and my goggles are so damp that I can hardly see anything.” - -[Illustration: SLY FOX STOPS KERCHUG FROM RUNNING AWAY.] - -So Carrier Pigeon swelled out his chest and stood on one leg and held the -paper in his right claw as he read: - - “I can leap further and higher and better than anything which - wears a speckled skin and goggles. If Kerchug is not a coward - he will come away from the water and hop right out here in the - wood and jump with me. - - (Signed) - - “Jumping Jehosophat.” - -“Are his legs as long as mine?” asked Kerchug, looking very hard at -Carrier Pigeon. - -“He had them curled under him when I saw him sitting in the woods,” -answered Carrier Pigeon, “and really I cannot say.” - -Kerchug, the leap frog, heard all the birds twittering and whispering, -up in the trees. He thought they were all laughing at him, so he gulped -and swallowed and then said that he was very glad indeed to see Carrier -Pigeon and that it was a very fine morning. - -“You might say to your friend,” he added, “that I must have time to think -this over, and you can come back in an hour.” - -“Very well,” answered Carrier Pigeon, “I’ll go back and tell him.” - -[Illustration: KERCHUG AND SLY FOX COME.] - -When Carrier Pigeon had gone, Kerchug put everything which he had in a -red bandana handkerchief and tied it up and put the bundle on the end -of a stick, which he rested on his shoulder. Then he started for the -bulrushes which grew along side of the pool. He had not gone very far -before he met Sly Fox. - -“Good morning, Kerchug, how is the jumping this morning?” asked Sly Fox. - -“Not very good,” answered Kerchug, “besides, I have found that it is not -a very healthy place to live around here. The pool is so very damp, and -you know that I cannot stand malaria, so I have decided to move.” - -“It seems to me,” said Sly Fox, “that you had better wait until you have -finished this affair with Jumping Jehosophat. I am surprised that you -should be afraid to jump with such an awkward looking creature as he is.” - -“But I am afraid that he can go further than I can,” replied Kerchug. - -“Don’t worry about that,” answered Sly Fox, “you just leave that to me. -You tell him that you will meet him to-morrow morning.” - -So Kerchug, the leap-frog, hid his bundle in the bulrushes and marched -back to the stone in front of the pool and croaked for Carrier Pigeon to -come back. - -“Tell Jumping Jehosophat, whoever he is,” said he, “that I’ll meet him -to-morrow morning at 9 o’clock under the old oak tree, and I will show -him something about jumping.” - -[Illustration: JUMPING JEHOSOPHAT LEAPS WITH THE BIG STONE.] - -All the birds in the woods went the next morning to the old oak tree. -The branches of the tree were so full of birds that some of them sagged -way down. Under the tree the ground was all hard and smooth. Jumping -Jehosophat was there waiting. He was certainly a queer animal. He had a -great big body and a little bit of a head. His hind legs were long and -strong and his front legs were no bigger than a rabbit’s. As he stood up -he was almost as tall as a man; his fur was gray and he had funny little -eyes which twinkled as he talked. On his breast were at least a dozen -medals for jumping. He folded his arms and hopped about on his hind legs. - -“Birds in the tree,” he said, “in me you see the great Jumping -Jehosophat, the bounding kangaroo. Because I jump so high I got away from -the circus. Now, then, where is that miserable little speckled green -thing that thinks it can jump?” - -Nobody spoke for a long time and then Sly Fox came out from behind the -bushes, carrying a bulrush for a cane. - -“Birds in the tree,” said Sly Fox, “the great and only Kerchug, the only -creature who is not afraid to leap both in the water and on the dry land, -has just finished his test, and is now on his way to show how a truly -great leap frog can jump.” - -“There he is!” screamed all the birds up in the tree. And, sure enough, -there came Kerchug, all dressed up in green tights, with spangles all -over them. Sly Fox, who had gone into the bushes to bring him out, came -up behind him, carrying a great, big stone. - -“With this e-nor-mous stone,” said Sly Fox, “Kerchug has just leaped 100 -times, so as to get ready for some real jumping. He will now wait until -this poor and awkward creature here has a chance to do the same, so that -you will all say that he has been fair.” - -“O, that is easy!” said Jumping Jehosophat. - -So the bounding kangaroo took the big stone in his little arms and jumped -up into the air 100 times. - -“Now, then,” said Sly Fox, “we shall have the pleasure of seeing who -is the better jumper, Jumping Jehosophat, the bounding kangaroo, or my -little friend here, who leaps as well on the dry land as in the wettest -pool.” - -Then Kerchug made a great, big jump, and Sly Fox marked the place. - -Jumping Jehosophat, who was all tired out and sore by leaping when he -carried the big stone, could only make a little bit of a jump, and did -not come within a foot of the place where Kerchug had leaped. He was so -ashamed that he ran into the bushes and hid. So Kerchug, all covered with -medals, went back to his pool, hand in hand with his friend, Sly Fox, -and all the birds in the trees, as they flew away, cried out: “What a -wonderful jumper is our little friend Kerchug, the leap-frog!” - - - - -YELLOW LION AND HEDGEHOG’S SCRIBBLING - -[Illustration: YELLOW LION FINDS HEDGEHOG’S SCRIBBLING.] - - - - -II - -YELLOW LION AND HEDGEHOG’S SCRIBBLING - - -Hedgehog was always scribbling. He sat at his desk in his house in the -woods and wrote so much that he hardly stopped to eat his meals. He had -quills stuck behind his ears, and whenever he thought of anything which -would make any of the beasts angry, especially Yellow Lion, he wrote it -down on a piece of birch bark. For ink he used pokeberry juice. - -Yellow Lion awoke one morning and found a sign tacked to the door of his -house with one of Hedgehog’s quills. On the sign was written: - -“Lion, you are a big, yellow animal.” - -“Who wrote that?” roared Yellow Lion. “I am no more of an animal than he -is.” - -Everybody knows that Yellow Lion is very proud, for he is the king of -beasts. So Yellow Lion went out and sharpened his claws on the trunk of a -tree and started to get revenge for the name that he had been called. He -had not gone very far before he saw another piece of bark tacked up to a -tree with one of Hedgehog’s quills. On it was written: - -[Illustration: LITTLE MONKEY EXPLAINS.] - -“Lions, take notice. The quill is mightier than the claw.” - -Yellow Lion picked off the sign and shook it between his paws. - -“The idea,” he said. “This is an insult. Just let me find out who wrote -that and there will be an awful time in this jungle.” - -He had only gone half a mile before he met Big Elephant. - -“Elephant,” he roared; “whose writing is this?” - -Big Elephant put on his glasses and picked up the piece of bark and -looked at it very carefully. - -“Sometimes,” he said, “I write in my sleep. You know, I used to write -visiting cards with my feet, and since I stand up when I am asleep maybe -I write a little without knowing it. I don’t remember this.” - -“You are a foolish, old elephant,” roared Yellow Lion, and he bounded -away so angrily that he could hardly see. He almost ran into Striped -Tiger. - -“Pardon me,” said Yellow Lion, for he had a great respect for Striped -Tiger. - -“Don’t mention it,” answered Striped Tiger, showing his white teeth. -“What is this I hear about your mane?” - -“Name,” replied Yellow Lion. - -“O, well, it’s much the same,” purred Striped Tiger. “The same letters. -You come with me and I’ll show you something that will make you feel very -glad.” - -[Illustration: HEDGEHOG WRITING AT HIS DESK.] - -Striped Tiger winked at Big Elephant, who had just come up, and all three -walked through the jungle. Striped Tiger led Yellow Lion to a large rock, -on which was written: - -“He has a mane which is rusty. He needs a haircut.” - -“This is too much,” roared Yellow Lion. - -“Ha! ha!” laughed somebody way up in the trees. - -Yellow Lion looked up and saw Little Monkey swinging along the tree tops -by his tail. Little Monkey had a cap on his head and a piece of birch -bark and a quill under his arm. - -“Come down!” roared Yellow Lion. - -He talked so loud that Little Monkey was scared, and let go his tail and -fell to the ground. Yellow Lion picked him up and shook him. On the piece -of bark which Little Monkey had was written, “A poor, innocent goat was -killed. Ask Yellow Lion.” - -“Now I have you!” snarled Yellow Lion. “I’ll teach you to write such -things and put them up on trees.” - -“Please, I’m only a messenger boy,” whimpered Little Monkey. “Hedgehog -wrote it.” - -“I’ll not eat you up!” roared Yellow Lion, “if you will take me to your -master.” - -So Little Monkey led Yellow Lion to Hedgehog’s house. Yellow Lion went -right into the room where Hedgehog was writing at his desk. - -“Hedgehog,” said Yellow Lion, “you have been calling me names. You wrote -that I had a mane—” - -[Illustration: HEDGEHOG DRIVES HIS QUILLS.] - -“I thought that you had,” answered Hedgehog, in a meek, little voice. - -He was sitting on a barrel before his desk, and kept on writing as hard -as he could. He had sheets of bark all around him, and his hands and face -were all over pokeberry ink. - -“That was all rusty. It is false,” continued Yellow Lion. - -“Your mane looks as though it were real,” replied Hedgehog. - -“You said I ought to have a haircut,” added Yellow Lion. - -“Which one of your hairs,” sighed Hedgehog. - -“Hedgehog,” roared Yellow Lion, “your time has come. You miserable, -little—” - -“What did you say?” asked Hedgehog. “I am hard of hearing.” - -“Quill driver,” thundered Yellow Lion. - -With that Hedgehog moved the back of his neck in such a way that all the -quills which were sticking behind his ears came out like arrows shot from -the bow. They stuck in the face of Yellow Lion and made him jump and -squeal and beg for mercy. Yellow Lion ran out of the place with his paws -all over his face and the tears running down his cheeks. - -“I may be a quill driver,” said Hedgehog, as he dipped a quill in -pokeberry juice, “but when I am writing I cannot afford to be annoyed by -big, yellow animals.” - - - - -THE ANT’S AUNT GIVES A PICNIC - -[Illustration: THE ANT’S AUNT SCOLDS THE ANT’S UNCLE.] - - - - -III - -THE ANT’S AUNT GIVES A PICNIC - - -The ant’s aunt had to give a picnic, because she had been invited to so -many places by all her relatives, she thought it was time to pay back -some of the invitations. - -“But it will be such a bother,” said the ant’s uncle, when he heard about -it. - -“Don’t be foolish, now,” replied the ant’s aunt. “We cannot go in society -without going to some trouble.” - -So the ant’s uncle said that it would be all right, for he always said -something of that kind when his wife talked about giving a party. - -He was sleeping early the next morning, when his wife woke him and said: -“Benjamin, Benjamin, did you remember to get the lemons and the sugar?” - -“No,” replied the ant’s uncle, as he rolled over again in bed. “The -grocery store was closed.” - -“Then you will have to go into the kitchen of the man’s house and get as -much as you can carry before the cook gets up.” - -[Illustration: “SUPPOSE YOU HAD A HUNDRED TOES!”] - -“The last time I was there,” muttered Benjamin, “I nearly got blown up -with the kerosene can.” - -By the time the ant’s uncle got back to his house he found more than a -hundred ants of all kinds walking up and down and carrying all kinds of -provisions. - -“You are very late,” said the ant’s aunt. “What did you do about the -swing, Benjamin? Did you stop and see the spider about it?” - -Benjamin had forgotten all about the swing, so he had to go back to where -the spider kept a shop, and he came back after a while with a wheelbarrow -loaded down with rope. The ant’s aunt was lame, and she had to walk with -a cane. She was at the head of the picnic party and Benjamin, the ant’s -uncle, came last of all with his wheelbarrow filled with rope and baskets -and sugar and lemons and tubs and glasses and everything which might be -used on a picnic. The ants went to Deacon Jones’ woods, and as they got -nearer, they heard all kinds of strange noises. All the animals and all -the birds came out to see the picnic go by. The ants walked on until they -came to a bare spot in the middle of the woods, and there they stopped -and put down their bundles and baskets. - -“This will be a nice place to set the table,” said the ant’s aunt. “Now, -Benjamin, while I am doing all the work, suppose you go and put up the -swing for the children.” - -[Illustration: UNCLE ANT AND HIS WHEELBARROW.] - -The ant’s uncle said something underneath his breath and then he took the -rope and the boards and things and put up 153 swings. He hurt his knee -and sprained his back and cut his fingers. He also stubbed his toes. - -“You needn’t feel so badly about hurting your toes,” said a centipede, -who stopped to look, “suppose you had toes on 100 feet to stub, then you -could afford to talk.” - -The ant’s uncle returned to the place where the table was being set. He -threw his hat over on the grass and sat down, saying, “I am very tired -and a little rest would do me a great deal of good.” - -“Benjamin, Benjamin,” cried the ant’s aunt, “how could you do such a -thing?” - -“Why, just you see what Uncle Benjamin did,” cried all the small ants at -once. - -“You ought not to be so careless,” replied Benjamin, “how was I to know -that it was a custard pie? I thought it was a nice cushion you put there -for me.” - -The ant’s uncle started to get his hat and walk away. He had not gone -very far before he became red in the face with anger. - -“Get off my hat,” all the ants heard him say, “how dare you sit on a poor -ant’s hat like that. Haven’t you any manners?” - -“What is the matter, Benjamin?” asked the ant’s aunt, picking up her cane -and hobbling toward her husband. - -“This miserable man,” yelled the ant’s uncle, “has the impudence to sit -down on my hat and he won’t get up.” - -[Illustration: THE ANT’S UNCLE THINKS THE CUSTARD PIE IS A CUSHION.] - -The man looked in the direction of Benjamin and then yawned and got up -and walked away. - -“Benjamin, Benjamin,” cried the ant’s aunt, a few minutes later, “little -Betsy Ann has come back and she says that nearly a dozen of the children -started to climb a mountain and the mountain got up and walked away. -Won’t you please go and try and find them?” - -The ant’s uncle jammed his crushed silk hat down over his eyes, picked up -a big switch and went to find the children. He walked and walked until -he came to a place where a whole lot of men and women were sitting in -a circle while the mosquitos ate them. The men and women were eating -pickles and dry sandwiches and trying to look happy. Uncle Benjamin -hurried down the middle of the tablecloth, calling, “Children, children,” -at the top of his voice. Everywhere he went he met some of those -miserable little children who had run away from their own picnic. He -found them sitting on the edge of a sponge cake dangling their feet and -kicking holes in the icing. They were perched on loaves of bread and up -on top of a plate of sliced ham, they were playing hide and seek. Some of -them had climbed up into a great big tin reservoir. There were all their -clothes on the edge and they were having a swim. - -“Didn’t I tell you not to go near the water?” asked Uncle Benjamin, -shaking his switch. “Now, where do I find you?” - -“It isn’t water,” said all the children ants; “it’s lemonade.” - -It took the ant’s uncle more than an hour to get all the children -together. - -“Why don’t you come away from here?” he said. “Don’t you hear all the men -and women talking and saying that it would be such a delightful place -here if it were not for those miserable ants?” - -“They didn’t say a word,” replied the children, “until you came.” - -This made Uncle Benjamin so angry that he swung his switch and chased -all the children before him back to the place where the table of the -ants’ picnic had been spread. Way over to one side was the ant’s aunt all -alone. She had her handkerchief to her eyes, and was crying as though her -heart would break. - -“Why, what’s the matter?” asked Uncle Benjamin. “What in the world has -happened?” - -“Why, can’t you see?” replied the ant’s aunt. “A miserable man came -this way and stepped right on the table, and when he lifted up his foot -everything was ruined.” - -“Come on, children,” said Uncle Benjamin, “Let us all go back to the -men’s picnic. After he has treated us this way, he deserves that we -should tease him and all his family.” - -That is the reason that, when men and women give picnics all the ants in -the neighborhood go and plague them. - - - - -THEIR FAT FRIEND - -[Illustration: SMALL DOG CHASES GRAY MOUSE HOME.] - - - - -IV - -THEIR FAT FRIEND - - -Gray Mouse and White Rabbit lived under the floor of the barn and were -very happy. The only thing which ever bothered them was Small Dog. They -hated Small Dog worse than poison. - -“Poison always stays in one place,” said Gray Mouse, “but Small Dog is -always jumping and digging. If he lives around this barn we might as well -go away. Why, the other day he chased me right up to my front door, and -if I had not been quick with my latch key, I am afraid that he would have -jostled me very rudely!” - -Then Gray Mouse stopped talking and nearly jumped out of his skin. White -Rabbit raised his ears and made his whiskers tremble. Right over their -heads they heard a noise like thunder. Gray Mouse and White Rabbit ran up -under the manger and peeped out. There they saw something which looked -like a big barrel placed on four piano legs. It had a long pipe in front -of it, four or five times bigger than the garden hose, and this big pipe -was swinging backward and forward. - -“What’s that?” asked White Rabbit, resting his paw on Gray Mouse’s arm. - -[Illustration: “PLEASE, MIGHTY MOUSE!”] - -“It looks to me,” answered Gray Mouse, “like an animal which the man has -in the parlor of his house, at least his legs look like those of that -poor beast. The man’s daughter boxes the creature’s ears for two hours -every morning, and although he cries and cries she will not stop.” - -“You do not know very much,” whispered White Rabbit. “I heard the man say -one morning that his little girl was pounding the piano in the parlor, -and this thing is not a piano at all.” - -Just then the creature winked his little eyes and made its big ears go -flop, flop. - -“It seems to be alive,” said White Rabbit. - -“Yes,” answered Gray Mouse, “and it looks a little bit like me only he is -bigger than Black Horse. What a funny long nose he has! You speak to him, -White Rabbit.” - -“I’m too bashful,” replied White Rabbit, as he backed away. - -He caught hold of Gray Mouse and pushed him right through the hole under -the manger. Gray Mouse fell on the ground in front of the strange animal. -One of the big beast’s feet kicked up the earth and covered up the hole -out of which Gray Mouse had come. Gray Mouse was so scared that he did -not know what to do. Besides he heard Small Dog snuffing at the barn door -and scratching with his paws. - -“What in the world shall I do?” squealed Gray Mouse. “Suppose Small Dog -should get in? The door is not latched and he could open it, with his -sharp nose and his big paws.” - -[Illustration: “I’LL BREAK EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY!”] - -Gray Mouse crouched down in a corner and trembled all over. - -“O, O,” he cried, “what shall I do?” - -Then the big beast heard him and looked down, his eyes opened wide and he -hopped around on his great feet and made a noise like a trumpet. - -“Please, Mighty Mouse,” roared the big beast, “don’t crawl up my trunk; -please don’t bite my poor, little, tender ears. Spare my life and I will -always be your friend.” - -Gray Mouse tried to stop trembling, for he saw that the great beast was -afraid of him. He stood up on his hind legs, folded his arms, took a deep -breath, and swelled out his chest. - -“And who are you, sir?” squeaked Gray Mouse, “that you dare to shake down -the plastering of my house with your clumsy feet?” - -“Please, sir,” answered the big beast between his sobs, “I am only a poor -little elephant, who came in town with the circus, and they put me here -in your barn until it was time to parade. I am sorry that I knocked down -the plastering of your house, and if you will have mercy on me I will -come down there and put it back again.” - -“Don’t be afraid,” whispered White Rabbit, who had dug away the earth -from over the hole under the manger and had come out behind Gray Mouse. -“Whip him, Gray Mouse; here is a straw; now give him a good beating.” - -[Illustration: ALL THREE ARE VERY GOOD FRIENDS.] - -Elephants are afraid of mice. So Gray Mouse, with his paws all shaking, -took the straw and walked toward the elephant. He heard the hinges of the -barn door creaking. - -“Come away, Gray Mouse,” cried White Rabbit, “Small Dog is coming.” - -“I’ll let you alone on one condition, Elephant,” said Gray Mouse, trying -to be brave, although he was trembling so that he could hardly hold the -straw, “and that is when you see any of my enemies trying to annoy me, -that you teach him a good lesson.” - -Small Dog got the door open and came jumping with his mouth wide open and -his white teeth shining. Gray Mouse and White Rabbit ran into the hole -under the manger. The Elephant, who feared nothing on earth except mice -and flies, for he had once killed a tiger, wound his trunk around Small -Dog. He lifted Small Dog up to the rafters and threw him down on the -ground so hard that all the bark went out of him. - -“If you disturb my little friends again,” roared the Elephant, “I’ll -break every bone in your body.” - -Small Dog walked on crutches for weeks after that, and he has never -annoyed White Rabbit and Gray Mouse in their happy home. In fact, all -three became very good friends and many is the time I have seen them -sitting out in the barnyard smoking their corn-cob pipes. - - - - -WHITE RABBIT’S CHEESE SCRUPLE - -[Illustration: WHITE RABBIT AND GRAY MOUSE GO TO THE CELLAR.] - - - - -V - -WHITE RABBIT’S CHEESE SCRUPLE - - -White Rabbit had so many scruples that sometimes he could not sleep. -He awoke one night and came over to Gray Mouse’s bed and pulled at the -covers. - -“Gray Mouse,” he whispered, “I have a scruple, and it keeps me awake. I -am afraid that it would not be right for you to go to the Man’s house -to-night just because there has been a party, and there are so many good -things lying around within reach.” - -“Who said anything about cake?” yawned Gray Mouse, and he rolled over as -if he were going to sleep again. - -“Gray Mouse,” called White Rabbit, “I thought that I ought to ask you. Do -you think it would be wrong if I went along with you and just took a look -into the cellar to see if that careless cook had forgotten to put away -the carrots?” - -[Illustration: GREEN-EYES GETS THE TRAP.] - -“Certainly not,” answered Gray Mouse, scrambling out of bed. “Even if -you should make a mistake and eat some carrots, it would be all right, -because it would teach that cook to be careful. I heard the man’s wife -tell her only the other day that she was the most careless cook they had -had for a week. If I should find some cake, it would be well for me to -eat as much of it as I can, so as to keep the man’s children from making -themselves ill.” - -So Gray Mouse and White Rabbit hurried out from under the barn floor and -went to the cellar of the man’s house, laughing and jumping. - -“What a pretty, little house,” said Gray Mouse, for in the centre of the -cellar floor was a little wire box with a funny door. - -Gray Mouse and White Rabbit walked all around it. - -“Why,” said Gray Mouse, “it has cheese inside of it. Put in your paw, -White Rabbit, and pull out that fine supper for me.” - -“No, thank you,” answered White Rabbit, “I have such a scruple. That -is toasted cheese inside of the little house, and toasted cheese is -what men call Welsh Rabbit. I will let you know, Gray Mouse, that I am -no cannibal. The door is open. Why don’t you go in and get the cheese -yourself?” - -“You are not very obliging, White Rabbit,” replied Gray Mouse, “but since -you are so mean I think that I will get it myself.” - -So Gray Mouse walked into the wire house and tried to carry away the -cheese which was fastened on a little rod. There was a click and the door -of the wire house closed behind Gray Mouse with a snap. Gray Mouse was in -a trap which the man had set for him. - -[Illustration: GRAY MOUSE GOES INTO THE TRAP.] - -“Help me out, White Rabbit,” shrieked Gray Mouse. “Your jaws are larger -than mine. Bite a hole in the side of this house so I can come out!” - -White Rabbit had chewed carrots and turnips and soft things all his life, -and it only set his teeth on edge when he tried to cut a way for Gray -Mouse out of the little wire house. - -“Scat B-r-r-r,” came a noise, and old Green Eyes, the cat, sprang from -out behind a tub. White Rabbit jumped out of reach. - -“Ugh!” meowed Green Eyes to Gray Mouse, “I’ve got a thief and I’m going -to eat him.” - -Green Eyes tried as hard as he could to get his paws through the cage. -One of his claws caught Gray Mouse in the side and made the blood come. -Green Eyes became very angry when he saw that he could not reach Gray -Mouse. He struck the trap with his claws. He picked it up and gave it a -good shaking. He lifted it over his head and threw it down on the floor -as hard as he could. The trap rolled over and over and at last rested -bottom side up. That made the door, which had been closed all this time, -fall back. When Gray Mouse saw that the door was open all he had to do -was to jump right out of the trap. He scuttled out of that cellar as fast -as he could and up at the top of the steps he met White Rabbit. - -[Illustration: WHITE RABBIT TURNS OVER THE TRAP.] - -“It was very warm down there,” said White Rabbit, as he saw Gray Mouse, -“and you know that my fur is so thick that I did not feel like staying -down there any longer. It was very bright of you to get out of that trap.” - -Then White Rabbit and Gray Mouse went away to the barn laughing and -chuckling to themselves. They went back to the house the next night. - -“Now, then,” said White Rabbit, “you go into the trap, Gray Mouse, and I -will pretend that I am the cat.” - -Gray Mouse went into the trap and helped himself to the cheese, and when -the door snapped he only laughed. Then White Rabbit turned the cage over -and the door fell back and Gray Mouse crawled out again. - -“That is very fine,” said White Rabbit. “If it had not been for my cheese -scruple it would never have happened. If I had put my paw in there I -could not have reached the cheese, and besides that, you would not have -had nearly so much fun.” - -Gray Mouse and White Rabbit went every night and got all the cheese in -that trap and in all the traps around the house. Gray Mouse took home so -much cheese that he did not know what to do with it, and White Rabbit -feasted on carrots. They paid no attention to Green Eyes at all. Whenever -the cat came after Gray Mouse, that saucy animal would get himself caught -in a trap and laugh at the cat. Gray Mouse and White Rabbit grew bigger -and stronger every day, and they could run so fast that the cat could -never catch them. - - - - -ABOUT THE APPLE BUTTER CAT - -[Illustration: GREEN-EYES THINKS.] - - - - -VI - -ABOUT THE APPLE BUTTER CAT - - -Green-Eyes, the cat, was very angry when he found that the man thought -that he could not catch mice. He was afraid that he would be put out in -the kennel with the dog. He and the dog had never been very good friends -and he did not like the idea of being in the same house with an animal -with such sharp teeth and such a harsh voice. - -Green-Eyes used to sit up all night with his paw on his head, saying, -“Let me think.” The neighbors’ cats came out on the back fence and made -fun of Green-Eyes all night long. - -“It’s too bad,” they meowed, “that you cannot see in the dark. Why, you -cannot even see a big white rabbit.” - -Gray Mouse and his friend, White Rabbit, went every night to the cellar -of the man’s house, where they helped themselves to cake and apple pie -and cheese and carrots. Green-Eyes heard the man say that it was time -to drown that good-for-nothing cat. He saw it was time for him to do -something to save his life, and so he kept on thinking and thinking. - -[Illustration: PATRICK O’POSSUM PUSHES OVER THE APPLE BUTTER JAR.] - -He crawled under a pile of carrots on the cellar floor one night and the -carrots fell all over and hid him all except the tip of his tail. Then he -waited for White Rabbit and Gray Mouse. - -Now, that night Patrick O’Possum went to visit Gray Mouse and White -Rabbit. He was a friend of Gray Mouse’s cousin, Field Mouse, and whenever -he went under the barn floor, where Gray Mouse and White Rabbit lived, he -was very welcome. - -“Gray Mouse,” asked Patrick O’Possum, “do you know where I can get any -good, sweet potatoes?” - -Gray Mouse winked at White Rabbit and said that he knew where there were -sweet potatoes nearly a foot long and so sweet that sugar tasted like -vinegar compared to them. Patrick O’Possum sighed and looked happy. - -“I’ll take you to the next moonlight party I have,” he said, “if you will -show me where I can find those very fine sweet potatoes.” - -So Patrick O’Possum, Gray Mouse and White Rabbit went running and hopping -and laughing to the cellar of the man’s house. Patrick O’Possum turned -to Gray Mouse and White Rabbit after he had taken a good look around the -cellar, and then he smiled, and smiled. - -[Illustration: RETREAT OF THE APPLE BUTTER CAT.] - -“I like sweet potatoes very much,” he whispered as he drew White Rabbit -and Grey Mouse close to him, “but I would not give a cent a bushel for -all the carrots in the world. If I had white fur and long ears I would -rather eschew those carrots over there than chew them.” - -Then Patrick O’Possum poked Gray Mouse and White Rabbit in the ribs and -laughed inside. The sweet potatoes were in a large swinging box near -the pile of carrots. Patrick O’Possum jumped up and got on top of the -box. He took out some sweet potatoes and tossed them down on the floor. -White Rabbit picked them up and carried them out of the cellar, while -Gray Mouse stood by. There was a long shelf above the swinging box -where the sweet potatoes were and on this shelf were jars of jelly and -jam and spiced watermelon and all kinds of good things. At one end was -a big jar of apple butter. After Patrick O’Possum had thrown down all -the sweet potatoes that he wanted he crept along the shelf and gave the -jar of apple butter a hard push. It fell, struck the edge of the sweet -potato bin, broke all to pieces and apple butter and broken jar and all -fell right on top of the pile of carrots. There were the queerest sounds -which came out of that pile of carrots that you ever heard. Green-Eyes -meowed and cried and kicked and arched up his back. He shook up that -pile of carrots as though there were an earthquake in the cellar. Then -all covered over with apple butter and little carrots and bits of broken -crock, he went up the cellar stairs yelling and screaming at every step. - -[Illustration: “DID YOU EVER SEE AN APPLE BUTTER CAT?”] - -White Rabbit and Patrick O’Possum picked up all the sweet potatoes that -they could carry and ran away to the barn. Gray Mouse led the way. As -they hurried along they got a glimpse of the man who was coming down the -hall in his night clothes with a gun over his shoulder. Just as the White -Rabbit, the Gray Mouse and Patrick O’Possum scampered under the barn -floor, they heard bang-bang, from the porch of the man’s house. - -“That must have been a shot gun,” said White Rabbit, as he stroked his -whiskers and smiled. - -“Um, um,” said Patrick O’Possum, “but these are good sweet potatoes. This -is more fun than a coon hunt.” - -Green-Eyes never went back to the man’s house again. Many of his friends -thought that the man had shot him and the next night out on the back yard -fence, all the neighbors’ cats met together and sang his funeral song. I -think, though, that Green-Eyes was not killed. One day, when I was out -hunting in the woods, I stopped to take a drink at a little spring and a -funny, little lizard stood on the edge and said: “Excuse me, Mr. Hunter, -but did you ever see an apple butter cat?” - - - - -GRAY MOUSE’S RICH BROTHER - -[Illustration: CHURCH MOUSE WALKS UP AND DOWN.] - - - - -VII - -GRAY MOUSE’S RICH BROTHER - - -Gray Mouse was sitting on his front porch one afternoon, when he heard a -rumble of wheels and a coach stopped before the door. It was the funniest -coach you ever saw, and it was drawn by four tumblebugs all covered with -silver harness. Two grasshoppers sat on the box. One of them jumped down -and opened the door. Then a big, fat mouse, all dressed up and carrying -a cane with a gold head, got out and came up the steps of Gray Mouse’s -house. - -“You don’t seem to know me,” said the fat mouse as he clapped Gray Mouse -on the back. - -“Your ways are familiar,” answered Gray Mouse, “but your face I do not -remember at all.” - -“Why, I am your long-lost brother, Church Mouse,” squeaked that wealthy -animal, “and I have just come back to visit all my friends and relations.” - -Church Mouse strutted up and down the porch, whirled his cane and played -with his watch chain. Gray Mouse was sitting in his old rocking chair and -he had on his shabbiest pair of carpet slippers. - -[Illustration: ADDER ASKS WHAT WITCH CHURCH MOUSE MEANS.] - -“You need not be so proud,” said Gray Mouse. “I remember the time when -you did not have a piece of cheese with which to bless yourself. Don’t -put on any airs with your coach and your old tumblebugs. I have not -forgotten when you lived in the church across the road, and were so poor -that many is the time you were glad to come over to my poor little house -for dinner.” - -“You need not be cross,” replied Church Mouse, “I am not proud, and -to-morrow I shall bring you a very large cheese.” - -“I am very glad to see you,” said Gray Mouse, changing his manners and -smiling. “Now, tell me how did you get so sleek and fat?” - -Gray Mouse brought his best easy chair out on the porch, and Church Mouse -sat down in it and crossed his hands over his stomach. - -“Well, I was so poor,” began Church Mouse, “that many is the time I have -gnawed the backs of hymn books. One day I was wondering how I was going -to get along, and decided to be a book agent. So I got Hedge Hog, who is -clever with quills, to write a book for me, called ‘The True History of -the Great Which What.’ Then I started out to sell it. - -[Illustration: YELLOW LION INQUIRES IF THERE IS ANYTHING IN THE BOOK -ABOUT HIM.] - -“Well, it was very hard work at first. Cochin, the chicken, slammed the -door of his coop right in my face. Chip Munk chased me off his door mat, -Snapping Turtle called me names and bit off the end of my tail. Then I -saw the Adder and I said just as politely as I could: ‘Mr. Adder, I have -here the True History of the Great Which What.’ - -“‘What witch?’ asked Adder, who was as deaf as anything. He had an ear -trumpet, but I do not believe that the trumpet helped him to hear any -better. - -“‘No witch,’ I answered. - -“‘Norwich is in Connecticut,’ answered Adder. ‘That is where I bought my -ear trumpet.’ - -“‘I said Which What,’ said I. - -“‘No,’ replied the Adder, ‘I do not need any dried apples to-day.’ - -“I was so angry that I cried. I went to the wheat bin out in Deacon -Jones’ barn and there I met my old friend, Weevil. - -“‘Of course,’ said Weevil, when I told him about my bad luck, ‘you don’t -sell books here because everybody is so intelligent. You come with me to -Asia and you will do far better.’ - -“So I stayed in the bin with Weevil. In a day or two, the wheat was put -in a wagon and taken to the railroad station. Before long it arrived in -New York. Then it was thrown down hill into a ship and for days and days -after that Weevil and I knew nothing except the splash of waters and the -tip, tip of that great ship. - -[Illustration: GRAY MOUSE SAYS HE IS PROUD OF HIS RICH BROTHER.] - -“We reached the place called Asia. As soon as I got a chance I said -good-by to Weevil and walked until I was in the jungle. When you sell -books it is a good thing to know somebody who is big. Weevil told me to -go the first thing and see Yellow Lion. I heard Yellow Lion roaring among -the trees and I walked up to where he was sitting. - -“‘Yellow Lion,’ I said very politely, ‘Yellow Lion, won’t you please buy -my book?’ - -“‘Has it got anything about me in it?’ asked Yellow Lion. - -“‘No,’ I answered. - -“‘Well, then, I have no time to talk to little animals like you,’ said -Yellow Lion. ‘You will oblige me by getting out of my lair, or I shall -step all over you.’ - -“‘Very well,’ I answered; ‘I do not wish to crowd you, Yellow Lion; and I -am not of a revengeful nature.’ So I stood up straight, and looked very -proud and angry. - -“Two days after that I was walking through the jungle when I heard a loud -noise. I peeped through the bushes and there I saw Yellow Lion lying -under a hammock. - -“‘Good morning,’ I said. ‘Seeing that you are so comfortable in your -nice, new hammock, I thought I would just come and say how d’ye do.’ - -“‘You mean, little animal!’ roared Yellow Lion, ‘don’t you see that the -hunters have caught me in a net?’ - -“‘It is too bad,’ I answered, ‘that you are in a net, but it is still -worse to be in the jungle without a copy of “The True History of the -Great Which What.” In the little book which I hold in my hand is told why -the what is which and what the what what said to the which who of the -when did.’ - -“‘Stop, stop!’ roared Yellow Lion. - -“‘Here is a chapter,’ said I, ‘which tells how a lion got caught in a net -and how a poor, little mouse in return for a kindness cut the net with -his sharp teeth and set the lion free.’ - -“‘What kindness?’ asked Yellow Lion. - -“‘All that the lion did,’ I answered, ‘was to buy a book which the mouse -was selling.’ - -“‘I’ll take that book,’ said Yellow Lion. ‘I’ll take a hundred of -them—and when I get out I’ll make everybody else buy one.’ - -“‘All right, Yellow Lion,’ said I. - -“Then I gnawed the net, and Yellow Lion got away. The king of beasts kept -his word. I sold more than a million copies of the book from that one -sample, for Yellow Lion told all the beasts that they must buy. That is -how I became so rich.” - -“You are certainly a clever little animal,” said Gray Mouse, when Church -Mouse had finished the story. “I am very proud of my rich brother.” - - - - -AT THE CHURCH MOUSE’S CIRCUS - -[Illustration: WHITE RABBIT PRETENDS TO BE A LION.] - - - - -VIII - -AT THE CHURCH MOUSE’S CIRCUS - - -Church Mouse had so much money after he came back from India that he -decided to start a circus. - -“There is nothing,” said he, “which will make so much money as a circus, -for red lemonade costs only half a cent a barrel and we sell it for five -cents a glass; and there is so very much money in selling candy at two -sticks for a cent apiece that I really think that I ought to start a very -fine circus.” - -So he hired all the spiders he could find to make him a tent and had -Patrick O’Possum cut some very fine tent poles. He pitched the tent right -out in the middle of Deacon Jones’ meadow lot. He got Ugly Dog to sell -tickets because nobody would dare to give Ugly Dog any bad money. Ugly -Dog was such a good barker that all the animals and all the birds could -hear him as he said: - -“Here, birds and animals, is your superior circus. Step right up and see -the fierce lion, brought from his native lair and the great and only -striped tiger which can eat a man without asking by your leave. Come on, -birds and animals, for this is the only show on earth owned by a church -mouse. Circus, menagerie and hiphopadrome, all under one tent. Walk right -up.” - -[Illustration: CLOWN LEAPFROG’S JOKE.] - -Church Mouse had tried to get a real live tiger, but he found that he -could not afford to pay for a tiger’s ticket all the way from India, so -he got his friend Field Mouse to put on striped clothes and look very -fierce and be the tiger. Mole was the elephant and White Rabbit put some -wool around his neck for a mane and pretended that he was a lion. This -circus was held at night and the glow worms came in free on condition -that they would hang from the top of the tent and give all the light that -was needed. - -Church Mouse had been so careful in arranging the circus that when the -animals came they thought it was the finest show which they had ever -seen. When they got to looking too closely at anything and began to -wonder if all lions were white and had long ears, the lights would go -out all at once and they had to think about something else. Over in one -corner was a little musk rat in a tank and all the animals and all the -birds, although they thought that they had seen him before, believed -that he was a hippopotamus. The more they looked at him the more they -wondered, for he seemed like such a wonderful animal. - -[Illustration: SALAMANDER SAYS HE EATS FIRE.] - -When the time for the circus came, all the birds and all the animals -gathered around the ring for which more than a hundred ants had brought -the sand. There was a loud clapping of hands and the Tumblebug Brothers -came into the centre of the ring kissing their hands to the crowd and -making a low bow to everybody. They leaped up into the air and turned -somersaults and stood on their heads, and whirled around on their backs. -Every time they did anything wonderful all the beasts and all the birds -clapped their paws or shook their wings and said: “Isn’t this a very fine -show, indeed?” - -Then about twenty ants, all dressed up in green, rolled two great big -balls into the middle of the ring. Each Tumblebug took one of these -balls, which was as big as he was himself, and whirled it around and up -and down, and then he lay on his back and with his feet threw the ball -clear up into the air and caught it again. Then the Tumblebugs threw the -balls back and forth to each other. - -Nimble Grasshopper came out, and he jumped clear over the back of the -make-believe elephant and the make-believe lion and came right down again -on his feet. Then Leap Frog came stumbling out into the middle of the -ring all covered over with flour and with red paint on his face and a -little bit of a white pointed hat on his head. - -“When is a mouse when it is spinning?” he asked. - -All the animals and all the beasts looked at each other and said: “Why, -we don’t understand. When is a mouse when it is spinning?” - -Leap Frog looked all around, and then said: “What! Give it up? Don’t -know? Can’t guess? Too hard? Why, it’s very easy indeed. The answer is, a -paper of tacks.” - -[Illustration: CHURCH MOUSE’S CIRCUS BURNS.] - -Then all the birds and all the animals laughed like anything. - -“What a very good joke,” they said. “How very clever! And isn’t it -strange that we should never have thought of it before?” - -“Now, then,” said Church Mouse, who was all dressed up in a long coat, -and had a silk hat and a long whip. “As the ring master of this show, I -want to introduce my great and good friend, Sig Salamander, who eats fire -for breakfast instead of oatmeal, and drinks his coffee boiling hot. He -will now do himself the honor of eating a red hot poker as though it were -a stick of molasses candy.” - -Then Salamander came out, followed by four mice, carrying a pan of coals. - -“Everything that I have,” said Salamander, “must be red hot. Once I ate -some red pepper drops and ever since that nothing has been too hot for -me.” - -He ate all sorts of fire, and then Wasp got up and said that he did not -think Salamander could stand everything hot, and with this he gave him a -sting. - -Salamander ran away from the place, and as he turned to go his feet -kicked the pan of coals and sent them way up in the air, until they set -fire to the tent. All the beasts and all the birds saw the flames above -them, and they were nearly scared to death. They scampered everyway that -they could. They knocked down the seats and kicked over the tent poles, -upset the animal cages and spilled the red lemonade. Before Church Mouse -knew what had happened his tent had all burned up, and it was all that he -could do to save his money and his boxes of cheese. After it was all over -he sat looking at the ruins, and then said: - -“It seems to me that I have made a great mistake. If I ever have a -salamander in a circus of mine again I will have everybody who sees the -circus a salamander, too.” - -Although the tent had burned up, Church Mouse had made so much money that -he did not have to work any more. He built a fine house, and every Sunday -as you saw him sitting in church under one of the pews you would never -have believed that he knew a single thing about circuses. - - - - -HOOT OWL INVENTS GOLF - -[Illustration: BOGEY MAN DISTURBS THE ANIMALS’ HOUSES.] - - - - -IX - -HOOT OWL INVENTS GOLF - - -The Bogey Man was so fond of playing golf that he never had time to think -of anything else. He lived on oatmeal water and smoked a pipe filled with -cabbage leaves and chopped hay. Golf was played in those days with one -straight stick, and all you had to do was to knock round stones over the -meadow. The Bogey Man was very careless, and he was always sending the -golf balls into the holes where the rabbits, field mice and snakes lived. -He played every day in Deacon Jones’ meadow lot. He used to take his -stick, when he lost the balls and pry into the homes of the poor, little -animals and snakes. In that way he spoiled the walls and broke the parlor -furniture. - -One day, the Bogey Man put a ball on top of an ant’s house, because he -said he could strike it better. The roof of the house fell in and the -ant’s aunt was so badly hurt that she never got over it. - -“Something must be done,” said all the snakes and rabbits and field mice -and ants who lived in Deacon Jones’ meadow lot. - -They had a convention near the old stump in the middle of the meadow, and -the garter snake was the president. - -[Illustration: FIELD MOUSE ASKS IF THE BOGEY MAN SCARES THE CHILDREN.] - -“Is this the person who always scares the children so?” asked the field -mouse. - -“No,” replied the Hoot Owl, who was the wisest of birds. “He is worse -than that. He is the man who thinks that he knows how to play golf.” - -“Hoot Owl,” whispered the Garter Snake, “you and Sly Fox must get rid of -this terrible Bogey Man, who is all the time poking around our houses and -making us uncomfortable.” - -When the Bogey Man went to play golf in the pasture next day, he heard a -hoarse voice away up in a tree. - -“Hoot man, hoot!” said the voice. “It seems to me that you really do not -know how to play golf.” - -The Hoot Owl came down from the tree all dressed up in baggy, spotted -clothes. He had a pipe in his beak and a big club in one claw. - -“I’ll let you know,” replied the Bogey Man, “that I have had games with -some of the very best players in the country, and besides that I can talk -Scotch better than you can.” - -“Ho, ho,” answered the Owl, “my people said hoot before there were any -Scotchmen. I’ve come to show you how to play the real game of golf. - -“Follow me,” screamed the Hoot Owl. - -He led the Bogey Man to a field which was all rough. The rabbits and the -field mice had been working all night making holes everywhere they could. - -[Illustration: HOOT OWL SAYS THE BOGEY MAN IS LEARNING.] - -“Why, this is no place to play golf,” said the Bogey Man as he took a big -drink of oatmeal water. - -“It’s fine,” said the Hoot Owl, “Isn’t it, Sly Fox?” - -Sly Fox came up with a whole bagful of sticks with twisted roots on the -end of them. The Bogey Man had always played with just one straight -stick. Sly Fox had gone into the woods, where he pulled up saplings and -kept those which had the funniest and the ugliest roots. - -“Now, then,” said the Hoot Owl, “I guess that we are all ready. Sly Fox, -you can carry the clubs.” - -The Hoot Owl and Sly Fox made the Bogey Man use all of the queer kinds of -sticks which they had brought. He had to shove the balls into holes all -over the field, and then he had to spoon them out again with two or three -kinds of clubs, and then shove them over to another hole. As fast as he -got through with one club Sly Fox would take it away from him and give -him another which was more twisted and curved than the one before. - -“Isn’t he learning fast?” said the Hoot Owl to Sly Fox with a wink. - -“O, fine,” answered Sly Fox. “Golf players are born and not made.” - -[Illustration: BOGEY MAN IS HIT BY THE RETURNING GOLF BALL.] - -Although the Bogey Man was very tired, he tried to look happy, and said -he never had so much fun in all his life. He stumbled into pits and -nearly sprained his ankle. He knocked the balls into ponds and over big -bumps in the meadows. Nearly every time he struck a ball it would go out -of sight. Sly Fox tried to find it, but, somehow, he never could. Then -the Bogey Man had to pay Sly Fox twenty-five cents for a new ball. Before -the day was over Sly Fox had sold to the Bogey Man the same ball 999 -times. The Bogey Man’s hands were all blistered, and his feet were wet, -and his fine clothes were all over mud. He sat down on a log and began to -cry. - -“I’m tired of running after those balls,” he said, “and I have, boo-hoo -boo-hoo—I have spent all my money buying new ones.” - -“That is too bad,” sighed Sly Fox. “I have an idea.” - -So Sly Fox drove a tack into one of the balls, twisted a long piece of -string around it and then drove the tack way down to the head. - -“This string,” explained Hoot Owl, “is just as long as the field. You -hit the ball with the club and the ball can’t get lost because it has a -string tied to it.” - -“That is very fine,” said the Bogey Man, wiping away his tears and taking -a big drink of oatmeal water. “I wish you had thought about that before I -bought those 999 balls.” - -So they put the ball on the ground and gave the Bogey Man the ugliest and -biggest club that they could find. - -“Hit it hard, Bogey Man,” said Sly Fox, and then he stepped behind a tree. - -“Yes, don’t be easy now,” screeched the Hoot Owl, and he flew up into the -branches of the tree and put on his glasses. - -The Bogey Man swung the club and struck the ball as hard as ever he -could. The round thing went through the air so fast that you could hear -it sing and when it got to the end of the field, it suddenly stopped. One -end of the string was fastened to a sapling. The string kept stretching -and stretching, until there was no more stretch in it and the ball -fastened to the end of it came bounding back and struck the Bogey Man -so hard in the nose that it knocked him right over. The poor Bogey Man -dropped his club, and when he got on his feet again, he went away as fast -as he could. Since that he has never been seen playing golf with anybody -and the animals and snakes in Deacon Jones’ wood are happy. Some men from -the city who saw Sly Fox and Hoot Owl playing thought it was really a -good game and they went back and taught other people how to play it. Only -instead of Sly Fox to find the balls they hired good little boys called -caddies who always find the balls, no matter how far they go, and they -never think of doing anything so dishonest as to charge twenty-five cents -for the same ball over and over again. - - - - -HOW UGLY DOG STOPPED THE CAR - -[Illustration: UGLY DOG TRIES TO OVERTAKE HIS MASTER.] - - - - -X - -HOW UGLY DOG STOPPED THE CAR - - -Ugly Dog lived out in a place called New Jersey, where the mosquitoes are -always so busy that the people never have time to think about getting -old. Near the house of his master there were two rails, on which the -Running Houses kept going up and down as fast as they could. Every time a -Running House went past Ugly Dog went out and barked, for the very sight -of it made him angry. Before the Running Houses came, his master went to -the station in a buggy, and Ugly Dog always went along and trotted back -with the coachman. Now his master went alone, and Ugly Dog had to stay at -home. - -He came out one morning just in time to see his master get on the back -steps of a Running House and wave good-by to the children. Ugly Dog was -never so angry in all his life. He ran as hard as he could, and tried to -jump on the Running House so that he could go to the station with his -master. Then he heard two bells ring, and with a clicking and banging, -Running House was sliding away so fast that Ugly Dog could not keep up -with it. He ran until he nearly dropped on the ground, and he barked -until he was hoarse. - -[Illustration: UGLY DOG COMPLAINS TO SLY FOX.] - -He crawled into the bushes at the side of the road and laid down to rest. -He was all covered with dust, and his eyes were red and his tongue was -hanging out. - -“Well,” said Sly Fox, who had just come up through the bushes, “You do -not seem to be very happy this morning. What is the matter?” - -“I can’t go to the station any more,” growled Ugly Dog, “because I can’t -run fast enough to keep up with those miserable little houses that go -sliding away as soon as my master gets on the back steps.” - -“It seems to me,” said Sly Fox, “that for a dog that has such a fine face -you do not know very much. I understand why it is that the Running Houses -do not stop—you are not polite enough to the man at the front door.” - -“What am I to do?” asked Ugly Dog. - -“O, that is very simple,” answered Sly Fox. “You must be very particular -about how you act. Nobody ever succeeds unless he is polite and always -says please. You know that I am very wise, and if you only listen to me, -you may never have any more trouble.” - -“I am all ears,” said Ugly Dog, folding his arms and looking as humble as -Jack Rabbit. - -[Illustration: SLY FOX ESCAPES ON THE CAR.] - -“Well, in the first place,” said Sly Fox, “the Running Houses only stop -when you wave your paw to the man at the front door. Now, if I were you -I would stand right in front of the next one as it comes along and then -I would make a low bow and wave my paw. That is the way your master gets -them to stop.” - -“I’ll do that,” said Ugly Dog, “just as soon as I get rested. But how is -it that you are all out of breath, too?” - -“Well,” answered the Sly Fox, coughing in a funny sort of a way and -shuffling his feet around, “you know that I am a doctor, and I was called -in a hurry to see two little chickens which had the croup in their crops.” - -“Is that so?” asked Ugly Dog, “and are they better now?” - -“Those dear, little chickens,” answered Sly Fox, as he stroked his white -mustache, “will never be bothered by having anything in their crops -again.” - -Just then there was a whirring sound way up the road and Sly Fox jumped -up. - -“My friend,” he said, “I think that another Running House is coming. If I -were you I would hurry up and get right in front of it.” - -Ugly Dog got up on his feet and shook himself and wagged his tail and -smoothed out his hair. - -“How do I look?” he asked. - -“Fine,” answered Sly Fox. “If I were the man standing on the front porch -of any Running House I would stop in a minute. Now you do just as I tell -you, and I am sure that you will never have any more trouble.” - -[Illustration: HOUNDS CALL UGLY DOG A RASCAL.] - -Ugly Dog went out in front of Running House, wagging his tail and -standing up on his hind legs and making bows all the time. He waved one -of his paws as Running House came hurrying down the rail. The man at the -front door began to ring the bell as fast as he could and to yell at Ugly -Dog. - -“He sees you!” cried Sly Fox from behind the bushes. - -Then the man turned a brass handle. - -Running House began to go slower, but it did not stop. The thing in front -which looked like a scraper struck Ugly Dog and sent him way up in the -air, and he fell down at the side of the road all in a heap. When he got -on his feet again, he saw the Running House going down the road as fast -as it could, and on the back step was Sly Fox, smoking a pipe and looking -very wise. - -Just then there was a crackling of branches and a yelping and a stamping. -Through the bushes came men riding horses and a pack of angry hounds. - -“You are a rascal,” yelped the hounds. “You, Ugly Dog, stopped the -Running House so that Sly Fox could get away from us!” - -“I did no such thing,” whined Ugly Dog. “That mean Fox played a trick on -me.” - -The hounds would not listen to him, but they chased him to his kennel and -gave him a good whipping. Ugly Dog did not get over the hurting he got -that day until the next month. - - - - -SLY FOX GETS HIS PICTURE TAKEN - -[Illustration: UGLY DOG MEETS SLY FOX AGAIN.] - - - - -XI - -SLY FOX GETS HIS PICTURE TAKEN - - -Mole had a photograph gallery in Deacon Jones’ woods. One of the rooms -was all dark, because it was under the ground, and here he spent nearly -all his time making pictures come on the glass plates. He was there so -much that after a while he could hardly see at all, so he had to get Ugly -Dog to help him. Ugly Dog was a good barker, and he stood out in front of -the photograph gallery all day, saying: “Step right up, birds and animals -and get your very fine pictures taken.” - -Ugly Dog made so much noise, and talked so much about the pictures, that -nearly all the birds and animals ordered a dozen photographs apiece. -Silly Goose, Gray Mouse and Kerchug, the leap-frog, were so pleased that -each of them ordered two dozen. - -Ugly Dog was out in front of the photograph gallery, barking one -afternoon when he saw Sly Fox in the bushes coming toward him. He and Sly -Fox were not friends, and he began to growl and snarl. - -“Stop your noise,” called out the Mole, coming out of the dark room. “You -are shaking all the pictures down.” - -[Illustration: UGLY DOG TELLS THE ANIMALS TO STEP IN.] - -“I can’t help it,” cried Ugly Dog, “Sly Fox made me stand in front of the -house which was running on two rails and the front step knocked me over -and nearly killed me.” - -“Now you do what I tell you,” said Mole, “and you can pay Sly Fox for -that trick.” - -So Mole and Ugly Dog went down into the dark room, and Mole told Ugly Dog -just what to do. Ugly Dog went back and stood in front of the photograph -gallery, and when Sly Fox came up he made a low bow. - -“Good morning, Sly Fox. Ha! Ha!” he said. “That was such a very good -joke. After the running house struck me and I found myself lying in the -road, I got up and laughed, and laughed so hard that for weeks afterward -I was sore all over. You are such a very funny animal, and you look just -as funny as you are. Whenever I see that great, big, long, thin neck of -yours I can hardly help laughing.” - -Sly Fox was very vain. He put his paw up to his neck and felt it all -over, and then said: “You are a very foolish animal, Ugly Dog. Anybody -can see that my neck is very short and very graceful.” - -“I don’t wonder that you do not care to have your picture taken,” said -Ugly Dog. “Silly Goose passed by here only yesterday and ordered two -dozen. I don’t suppose that my partner, Mole, would care to risk his -camera taking a picture of one so ugly, anyway. It’s too bad that your -tail is so short and stubby.” - -[Illustration: SLY FOX SITS FOR HIS PICTURE.] - -Now, Sly Fox was very proud of his long and bushy tail, and when he heard -what Ugly Dog said, he became red in the face. - -“It’s just as well,” said Ugly Dog, “that you do not take a very good -picture, for I hear that you have so little money now that you could not -afford to do so, anyway.” - -Then Sly Fox shook his paw in Ugly Dog’s face. - -“Take my picture right away,” he said, “and I’ll let you know that I have -money to pay for it. I shall wait here until it is done.” - -So Ugly Dog called down to his friend Mole, and Mole came up with his -camera. - -“Sit right down on this stool,” said Ugly Dog. - -Sly Fox sat down, and behind him Ugly Dog put a funny kind of tongs -passing to a long rod. He put the ends of the tongs under Sly Fox’s ears -and screwed them up real tight. - -“That’s to keep your head still,” said Mole. - -“Don’t you think that is a little bit too tight?” asked Sly Fox, -squirming around, for he was held so fast that he had shooting pains in -his head. - -“Look pleasant, please,” grunted Mole, from under the cloth which was -over the camera. - -“You must stay here for fifteen minutes,” added Ugly Dog, very quietly. - -[Illustration: O, MY! O, MY! TAKE IT AWAY!] - -So Sly Fox stayed sitting there with a bouquet in his right paw and -trying to look pleasant, although the tongs about his ears were so tight -that his eyes stuck out, and he could hardly keep his tongue from hanging -down. Mole took the camera back into the dark room, and, after awhile, he -came out with a photograph all finished. - -“I’ll put it up right in front of you, Sly Fox,” said Ugly Dog, “so that -you can take a good look at it.” - -As Sly Fox looked toward the photograph Ugly Dog slipped up behind and -gave the tongs another turn and then jumped back into the bushes. When -Sly Fox saw the picture he raised his paws and said, “O, my! O, my! Take -it away.” It was such an awful picture that it would scare anybody to -look at it. Mole had placed pictures of different animals together and -had made one picture. There was a creature with a long neck like Silly -Goose’s, and a little stubby tail like Ugly Dog’s, and a body like big -Elephant’s. It had two feet which looked like the goose’s, and two other -feet which looked like elephant’s feet. - -“I don’t look like that?” cried Sly Fox. - -“I just made your picture,” said Mole in a sleepy voice, “and nobody can -ever say that I ever took the wrong animal. Isn’t your name Sly Fox?” - -“O, yes,” replied Sly Fox, “but I am a very handsome animal.” - -“I can’t see that you are,” replied the Mole. “That is your picture, and -now you’ll have to pay for it.” - -So Ugly Dog and Mole took pay for a dozen pictures and put the -photograph up just in front of Sly Fox, where he could see it and could -not reach it. - -“Take it away. Take it away,” cried Sly Fox. - -Ugly Dog and Mole went away to dinner and left Sly Fox sitting in the -chair snarling and crying. He stayed there for two hours, until his -friend Patrick O’Possum came along and unscrewed the tongs and let him -go. Ever since that Sly Fox has not been nearly so proud of himself, and -he has never played another trick on Ugly Dog. - - - - -AT LITTLE MONKEY’S SWIMMING SCHOOL - -[Illustration: CAPTAIN MONKEY PAINTS A SIGN.] - - - - -XII - -AT LITTLE MONKEY’S SWIMMING SCHOOL - - -Little Monkey lost his tail, and the other monkeys made so much fun of -him that he could not live with them any more. He went away by himself -and fed on berries. He was sitting on the bank of the river one day, when -the earth gave way, and he fell in the water. He swam out again, and as -he did, he had an idea. - -“I’ll start a swimming school,” said he. “I’ll teach all the other -animals to swim so that their lives will be saved if they fall into the -water.” - -So Little Monkey built houses on the shore of the river and put up a sign -which read: - - Captain L. Monkey, - Swimming Skule. - Bathing Suits to Hire. - -[Illustration: TIGER’S OPEN MOUTH SCARES LITTLE MONKEY.] - -He had 100 bathing suits in sizes to fit any animal from a mouse to an -elephant. He hired the tailor bird to make new suits as fast as the old -ones wore out. Ben Crocodile was always swimming around to save the lives -of the animals who swam out too far. Little Monkey put a raft away out in -the stream, where the animals could rest after they had swum as long as -they should. - -When all the animals and all the birds heard that Little Monkey had a -swimming school they said: “How very fashionable!” - -Some of them thought they could swim, but then it became the style for -all animals and birds to swim like little monkeys without tails. Every -afternoon, the beach in front of Little Monkey’s bathing houses was -filled by the jungle folk. All those, who went in, hired bathing suits, -and the tailor bird was kept busy all day making new suits and mending -the old ones. Little Monkey wore a fine, gray suit, and he swam up and -down to teach the animals how to swim like a little monkey without a tail. - -Tiger and Zebra were great friends, and one afternoon they went to Little -Monkey’s swimming school. - -“We want nice, new suits,” said Tiger. - -Tailor Bird brought out two suits with yellow and black stripes. Tiger -and Zebra then had white hair, for this was many years ago. - -“They’re fine,” said Tailor Bird. “They fit like the bark on the tree, -and the colors are so new that they would be ashamed to run.” - -“What pretty suits,” Zebra and Tiger said at once. - -They put on the bathing suits and sat down on the sand. - -[Illustration: TIGER AND ZEBRA MAKE FUN OF LEOPARD’S SPOTS.] - -“Why don’t you come in?” asked Heron, who had stayed in the water until -he was blue. - -“We want everybody to see our fine, new suits,” answered Zebra. - -“Come on!” cried Little Monkey. “Bathing suits were made to get wet.” - -So Tiger and Zebra stepped into the water and followed Little Monkey. - -“Tiger,” cried Little Monkey, turning around, “you must keep your mouth -tightly shut.” - -(Every time Tiger got near Little Monkey his mouth flew open.) This made -Little Monkey very nervous, for Tiger had big, sharp teeth. When Tiger -was not scaring Little Monkey, Zebra was kicking the water over the poor, -little animal, which was doing his best to teach his pupils how to swim. -The other animals and birds got out of the water and sat upon the beach -and laughed and laughed at the fun which Tiger and Zebra were having with -Little Monkey. - -Tiger and Zebra made believe that they were very awkward. They were all -the time catching Little Monkey around the neck until his head was under -water. Then when he came up again with his ears and mouth all streaming, -they would say: “Noble Little Monkey, you have just saved our lives.” -They even got a little fish to swim under Little Monkey and bite his -toes. Little Monkey pretended not to be angry. All the time, though, he -was vexed, and he made up his mind that he would pay back Tiger and Zebra -for the mean way in which they were treating him. He was all tired out, -yet he kept swimming, for he saw that something was happening which would -give him a fine revenge. - -[Illustration: TIGER AND ZEBRA RUN AWAY ASHAMED.] - -“Tiger,” he said, “if you would keep your mouth from being open so much, -and Zebra, if you would not splash with your feet, you both would become -very fine swimmers. Don’t bother to take off your bathing suits. Just sit -in the sun and when I teach Antelope how to dive I’ll give you another -lesson.” - -So Tiger and Zebra sat in the sun and told the other animals about the -great fun which they had had with Little Monkey. - -Then they found somebody else to make fun for them. Leopard, who was all -spotted, came down to the beach. - -“Ho, ho,” laughed Tiger, “did you ever see an animal in a polka dot skin?” - -“He, he, isn’t he gaily dressed,” neighed the Zebra, as he grinned and -looked around at the other animals. - -“It is not every animal,” answered the Leopard, as he came out dressed up -in his white bathing suit, “who has the good fortune to be born with a -beautiful white skin. Many is the time I have tried to change these polka -dots for a plain checked suit, but somehow I could never do it. I may be -funny but I never looked so queer as do two very mean animals who are -lying on this beach all dressed up in ugly, striped bathing suits.” - -Then Zebra and Tiger became angry. They got up and took off their bathing -suits and threw them at tailor bird. Then all the birds and the animals -laughed so hard that they had to put their hands to their sides. Hyena -laughed until he rolled over and over on the beach. - -“Hyena,” roared Tiger, “you are always laughing at nothing. What is the -matter with you?” - -Hyena pointed with his paw. Tiger and Zebra looked at themselves and -found that their skins were all striped. The color had come out of the -new bathing suits and the sun had dried it into their hair. Tiger and -Zebra felt so ashamed that they ran away. 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