THE ADVENTURES OF BOBBY COON

By Thornton W. Burgess

Author of "Old Mother West Wind," "The Bedtime Story-Books," etc.

With Illustrations by Harrison Cady

Boston, Little, Brown, And Company
1918

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CONTENTS

THE ADVENTURES OF BOBBY COON

I. BOBBY COON HAS A BAD DREAM

II. BOBBY BITES HIS OWN TAIL

III. BOBBY'S DREADFUL FRIGHT

IV. BROWSER FINDS SOMEONE AT HOME

V. BOBBY COON SHOWS FIGHT

VI. SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH BOBBY COON

VII. BOBBY HAS A STRANGE JOURNEY

VIII. FARMER BROWN'S BOY PLAYS DOCTOR

IX. BOBBY IS MADE MUCH OF

X. BOBBY LONGS FOR THE GREEN FOREST

XI. THE HAPPIEST COON EVER

XII. BOBBY TRIES THE WRONG HOUSE

XIII. BOBBY MAKES ANOTHER MISTAKE

XIV. BOBBY FINDS OUT HIS MISTAKE

XV. ONCE MORE BOBBY TRIES TO SLEEP

XVI. BLACKY THE CROW DISCOVERS BOBBY

XVII. THE SURPRISE OF TWO COUSINS

XVIII. BUSTER BEAR'S SHORT TEMPER

XIX. BOBBY COON GETS A TERRIBLE SHAKING

XX. PETER RABBIT SAVES BOBBY COON

XXI. BOBBY FINDS A HOME AT LAST

XXII. BOBBY FINDS HE HAS A NEIGHBOR

XXIII. BUSTER BEAR FINDS BOBBY COON

THE ADVENTURES OF BOBBY COON

I. BOBBY COON HAS A BAD DREAM

Some dreams are good and some are bad;

Some dreams are light and airy;

Some dreams I think are woven by

The worst bind of a fairy.

DREAMS are such queer things, so very real when all the time they are unreal, that sometimes I think they must be the work of fairies,—happy dreams the work of good fairies and bad dreams the work of bad fairies. I guess you've had both kinds. I know I have many times. However, Bobby Coon says that fairies have nothing to do with dreams. Bobby ought to know, for be spends most of the winter asleep, and it is only when you are asleep that you have real dreams.

Bobby had kept awake as long as there was anything to eat, but when Jack Frost froze everything bard, and rough Brother North Wind brought the storm-clouds that covered the Green Forest with snow, Bobby climbed into his warm bed inside the big hollow chestnut tree which he called his, curled up comfortably, and went to sleep. He didn't care a hair of his ringed tail how cold it was or how Brother North Wind howled and shrieked and blustered. He was so fat that it made him wheeze and puff whenever he tried to hurry during the last few days he was abroad, and this fat helped to keep him warm while he slept, and also kept him from waking from hunger.

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Bobby didn't sleep right straight through the winter as does Johnny Chuck. Once in a great while he would wake up, especially if the weather had turned rather warm. He would yawn a few times and then crawl up to his doorway and peep out to see how things