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SLEEPY-TIME TALES

THE TALE OF FATTY COON

BYARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

ILLUSTRATED BYHARRY L. SMITH

NEW YORK

1915

I FATTY COON AT HOME

II FATTY LEARNS SOMETHING ABOUT EGGS

III FATTY DISCOVERS MRS. TURTLE'S SECRET

IV FATTY COON'S MISTAKE

V FATTY COON GOES FISHING

VI FATTY AND THE GREEN CORN

VII JOHNNIE GREEN IS DISAPPOINTED

VIII A TERRIBLE FRIGHT

IX JOHNNIE GREEN LOSES HIS PET

X FATTY COON AND THE MONSTER

XI JASPER JAY TELLS SOME NEWS

XII FORTY FAT TURKEYS

XIII FATTY MEETS JIMMY RABBIT

XIV THE BARBER-SHOP AGAIN

XV FATTY VISITS THE SMOKEHOUSE

XVI FATTY COON PLAYS ROBBER

XVII FATTY FINDS THE MOON

XVIII THE LOGGERS COME

XIX FATTY GROWS EVEN FATTER

XX THE TRACKS IN THE SNOW

ILLUSTRATIONS

FATTY SAW MRS. TURTLE DIGGING IN THE SAND Frontispiece

FATTY COON CROUCHED CLOSE TO THE WATER'S EDGE

FATTY WISHED THE DOG WOULD GO AWAY

FATTY STOPPED RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

"PLEASE, MR. BEAR, LET GO OF MY TAIL!" FATTY CRIED

IT HUNG UNDER A TREE, JUST OVER FATTY'S HEAD

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FATTY COON AT HOME

Fatty Coon was so fat and round that he looked like a ball of fur, witha plumelike tail for a handle. But if you looked at him closely youwould have seen a pair of very bright eyes watching you.

Fatty loved to eat. Yes—he loved eating better than anything else inthe world. That was what made him so fat. And that, too, was what ledhim into many adventures.

Close by a swamp, which lay down in the valley, between Blue Mountainand Swift River, Fatty Coon lived with his mother and his brother andhis two sisters. Among them all there was what grown people call "astrong family resemblance," which is the same thing as saying that theyall looked very much alike. The tail of each one of them—mother andchildren too—had six black rings around it. Each of them had a darkbrown patch of fur across the face, like a mask. And—what do youthink?—each of them, even Fatty and his brother and his sisters, had astiff, white moustache!

Of course, though they all looked so much alike, you would have knownwhich was Mrs. Coon, for she was so much bigger than her children. Andyou would have known which was Fatty—he was so much rounder than hisbrother and his sisters.

Mrs. Coon's home was in the hollow branch of an old tree. It was a giantof a tree—a poplar close by a brook which ran into the swamp—and thebranch which was Mrs. Coon's home was as big as most tree-trunks are.

Blackie was Fatty's brother—for the mask on his face was just a littledarker than the others'. Fluffy was one of Fatty's sisters, because herfur was just a little fluffier than the other children's. And Cutey wasth

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