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+Project Gutenberg's Making Up with Mr. Dog, by Albert Bigelow Paine
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+Title: Making Up with Mr. Dog
+       Hollow Tree Stories
+
+Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
+
+Illustrator: J. M.  Conde
+
+Release Date: September 9, 2011 [EBook #37363]
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+[Illustration: Good wishes to all Hollow Tree friends
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+From the Story Teller]
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+[Illustration: THE FIRST DINNER AT THE HOLLOW TREE INN
+
+[See page 20]
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+
+MAKING UP WITH MR. DOG
+
+[Illustration]
+
+HOLLOW TREE STORIES
+
+BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
+
+ILLUSTRATED BY J. M. CONDE
+
+        HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
+        NEW YORK AND LONDON
+
+
+
+
+HOLLOW TREE STORIES
+
+BY
+
+ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
+
+12mo. Cloth. Fully Illustrated
+
+
+        HOW MR. DOG GOT EVEN
+        HOW MR. RABBIT LOST HIS TAIL
+        MR. RABBIT'S BIG DINNER
+        MAKING UP WITH MR. DOG
+        MR. POSSUM'S GREAT BALLOON TRIP
+        WHEN JACK RABBIT WAS A LITTLE BOY
+
+      HOLLOW TREE AND DEEP WOODS BOOK Illustrated. 8vo.
+
+      HOLLOW TREE SNOWED-IN BOOK Illustrated. 8vo.
+
+HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK
+
+        Copyright, 1898, by JAMES GORDON BENNETT
+
+        Copyright, 1899, by FRANK MUNSEY
+
+        Copyright, 1899, by THE CENTURY COMPANY
+
+        Copyright, 1898, 1899, 1901, by ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL
+
+        Copyright, 1900, by HARPER & BROTHERS
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                                 PAGE
+        THE HOLLOW TREE INN                          3
+
+        THE HOLLOW TREE INN (_Continued_)      11
+
+        A DEEP WOODS FISHING PARTY                  25
+
+        MR. RABBIT EXPLAINS                         41
+
+        THE HOLLOW TREE POETRY CLUB                 53
+
+        MR. RABBIT'S UNWELCOME COMPANY              79
+
+        MR. 'POSSUM EXPLAINS                        91
+
+        AROUND THE WORLD AND BACK AGAIN            109
+
+
+
+
+THE HOLLOW TREE INN
+
+THE THREE FRIENDS GO INTO BUSINESS
+
+
+ONE rainy day when the 'Coon and 'Possum and Old Black Crow, who lived
+together in three big hollow limbs of a Big Hollow Tree, were rummaging
+about their house, they found that above each of their rooms was a good
+deal of room that nobody ever used. That set them to thinking, and
+pretty soon Mr. 'Possum said it was too bad to let all that good room go
+to waste, and Mr. 'Coon said yes, it was, and that their house was big
+enough for a hotel.
+
+Of course he didn't think what he was saying at the time, but it set Mr.
+Crow to thinking and walking up and down, whistling, and pretty soon he
+stopped still and looked at the 'Coon and 'Possum.
+
+"I'll do the cookin'," he said, "if you'll get the things to cook."
+
+And right then and there they made up their minds to do it, and early
+the next morning, while the Old Black Crow was hurrying about inside,
+getting things ready for business, the 'Coon and the 'Possum nailed up a
+sign outside, and this is what was on it:--
+
+        THE HOLLOW TREE INN.
+        BOARD BY THE DAY OR WEEK.
+
+[Illustration: "HELLO!" HE SAID. "WHAT'S THIS?"]
+
+Then they went inside to help Mr. Crow get ready, and by and by they all
+sat down and waited for people to come. Mr. 'Coon and Mr. 'Possum felt
+pretty well, too, for they thought they would have the easiest time. You
+see, they had always depended on Mr. Crow a good deal, for, besides
+being a good cook, he was a great hand to provide, and knew more about
+where to get the best things, and the best time of day or night to get
+them, than both of the others put together. So he didn't say anything,
+but dressed up nice and spruce in a clean apron and cooking cap and
+leaned out of the window, as cooks always do, with his arms folded. By
+and by along came Mr. Jack Rabbit.
+
+"Hello!" he said. "What's this?"
+
+Then he read the sign over and looked at Mr. Crow and asked him if it
+was a joke. And Mr. Crow said:--
+
+"Not much! Come up and see."
+
+So then Mr. Rabbit went up stairs, and Mr. 'Coon and Mr. 'Possum showed
+him through, and Jack Rabbit said that he didn't feel very well this
+summer, anyway, and he believed he'd just shut up his house and come and
+board awhile for a change. He said he guessed he'd take the room above
+Mr. 'Coon's, because it had a nice south window and a tall looking
+glass, and that he'd pack up a few things that he needed and come over
+right away. Then he went home and the 'Coon and 'Possum and the Old
+Black Crow all shook hands and danced around in a circle to think how
+well they were going to do, for if Mr. Jack Rabbit came they were sure
+of having as many others as their house would hold.
+
+And while they were dancing, along came Mr. Robin. He read the sign,
+too, and laughed, and then knocked at the door till Mr. 'Coon came down
+and let him in. He thought it was a joke at first, like the Rabbit, but
+when he heard that Jack Rabbit was coming to board he spoke up just as
+quick as anything and said he'd come, too, and that he'd have his things
+there before supper time. He took the room over Mr. Crow, because he
+said he didn't mind the smell of the cooking, and then maybe he'd learn
+some new receipts. You see, Mr. Crow and Mr. Robin are sort of kinsfolk,
+and when they have time they often get together and trace back to find
+out just what relation they are to each other, and that makes them good
+friends.
+
+Well, Mr. Robin hadn't more'n got out of the house when who should walk
+in but Mr. Squirrel.
+
+"What's all this about boarders?" said Mr. Squirrel. "I'm looking for a
+place to spend a month or two myself."
+
+So then they showed him the room above Mr. 'Possum's, and he was so
+pleased with the view and everything that he paid a week's board in
+advance to be sure of keeping anybody else from getting it. When he was
+gone the 'Coon and 'Possum and the Old Black Crow did another dance, and
+kept saying over and over how rich they'd be and what they would do with
+all the money. Then they heard somebody laughing outside, and when they
+looked out there was Mr. Turtle laughing and reading the sign.
+
+"Hello!" he said. "This isn't the first of April."
+
+"No," said Mr. Crow, "it's a boarding house, and a good one. All the
+best people in the country stop here. Mr. Rabbit, Mr. Robin, and Mr.
+Squirrel. Sorry, Mr. Turtle, but our rooms are all full."
+
+Then Mr. Turtle did look cheap, for he thought he couldn't be in the
+crowd, and it was the very crowd he liked to associate with. But just
+then Mr. 'Coon happened to think that they might fit up the big room
+below the other big room where they all gathered to eat and talk, and
+Mr. Turtle said that would suit him exactly, because he was large and
+heavy and didn't care much about climbing anyway. So he hurried off
+after his things, too, and he wasn't out of sight before here comes Mr.
+Dog!
+
+Mr. 'Coon and Mr. 'Possum were both looking out the window when he came
+up, and they jumped back like lightning. You see, they didn't like Mr.
+Dog worth a cent. Then Mr. Crow came and looked out the window and
+talked to him. Mr. Dog was just as polite as a basket of chips, and of
+course that's the politest thing in the world.
+
+"I've just seen Mr. Robin," said Mr. Dog, "and I came to get a room,
+too."
+
+"Awfully sorry, Mr. Dog, but our rooms are all full," said Mr. Crow.
+
+"Why don't you take down your sign, then?" said Mr. Dog.
+
+"Hotels never take down their signs," said Mr. Crow.
+
+"Hotels are never too full for one more, either," said Mr. Dog. "If you
+don't let me come in I think I'll wait around here and make a vacancy."
+
+
+
+
+THE HOLLOW TREE INN (_Continued_)
+
+
+
+
+WHAT HAPPENS TO MR. DOG
+
+
+NOW, when Mr. 'Possum and Mr. 'Coon heard that their hair stood up
+straight, for they knew very well that there'd be two vacant rooms
+anyway if Mr. Dog ever got inside, and two if he stayed where he was,
+for they happened to think that Mr. Rabbit would be coming along
+presently, and Mr. Squirrel wouldn't be far behind. So they hurried to
+the back window and looked out, and sure enough, there was Mr. Rabbit
+coming with his trunk on his shoulder and almost there. At first they
+were frightened 'most to death for Mr. Rabbit, and then the 'Coon
+slipped over and whispered to the Crow to keep Mr. Dog talking as hard
+as he could, so he wouldn't notice anything. All the time he was doing
+this the 'Possum was motioning to Jack Rabbit to slip up easy-like with
+his trunk.
+
+So Mr. Rabbit slipped up softly on the other side of the house from Mr.
+Dog and set his trunk down, and the 'Possum let out a long rope with a
+hook on it. Jack Rabbit stood up on his trunk and grabbed the hook as
+soon as he could reach it and hooked it under his arms. Then the 'Coon
+and the 'Possum pulled and pulled and up he came, and as soon as he was
+safe they let down the rope and caught the hook in the trunk handle.
+That was a load for all three of them, and even then they couldn't get
+it up, and called across to the Crow to come quick and help. So he had
+to leave Mr. Dog a minute, and when he did that Mr. Dog walked around
+the tree, and there was the trunk just a few feet from the ground, going
+up very slowly. That was enough for Mr. Dog. He knew then he'd been
+fooled, and he was so mad he didn't know what to do.
+
+[Illustration: THERE WAS MR. RABBIT COMING WITH HIS TRUNK]
+
+He took one look at that trunk and made up his mind he wouldn't stand
+it. So he stepped back a little and made a short run and gave a jump for
+the trunk, just as high as ever he could.
+
+But Mr. Dog wasn't very lucky, for instead of landing on the trunk he
+landed his nose right against one corner of it, and that made him madder
+than ever. He ran and jumped again harder than before, but this time the
+trunk was a little higher and Mr. Dog didn't quite hit it. There was a
+strap hanging down, though, and he caught it as he went by. He caught it
+with his teeth, and two of his teeth went right through two of the holes
+where the buckle catches, and there they stayed. He had the trunk all
+right enough, but the trunk had him, too.
+
+[Illustration: AND UP HE CAME]
+
+There he was. His feet didn't quite touch the ground, and he couldn't
+get up any higher either. Then all at once the people up stairs saw how
+it was, and they commenced to laugh in spite of themselves, and hitched
+the rope around a peg under the sill so they could rest a minute. That
+was fun for them, but it wasn't for Mr. Dog, by a good deal. He couldn't
+laugh, and he couldn't rest, either. And just then Mr. Squirrel came
+with his trunk, and Mr. Robin with his satchel and a hand bag, and Mr.
+Turtle with his things in a big sack. Mr. 'Coon ran down and let them
+all in and locked the door. Then he ran back to the window where Mr. Dog
+was.
+
+"If we'll let you down will you go home and not come around this hotel
+interfering with our business?" says Mr. 'Possum.
+
+"Yes; will you promise not to try to get any of our guests away from
+us?" says Mr. 'Coon.
+
+[Illustration: HE CAUGHT IT AS HE WENT BY]
+
+Mr. Dog couldn't talk much in the fix he was in, but he did the best he
+could, and promised yes to everything, so pretty soon they let the trunk
+down till his feet touched the ground and he could get his teeth out of
+the strap. Then he put out for home just about as fast as he could go,
+without so much as thanking them for letting him down, and up went Mr.
+Rabbit's trunk pretty quick, now that there were plenty to help.
+
+Then the guests all hurried to their rooms to unpack, and Mr. Crow
+bustled around to get supper with what he had in the house, for Mr.
+'Possum and Mr. 'Coon hadn't time yet to bring in anything. It was a
+pretty good supper, though, and all the guests said so, and said they
+knew what a good cook Mr. Crow was if he had things to work with, and
+the Crow said he guessed he could do his part if the 'Coon and 'Possum
+would do theirs.
+
+Well, it makes a good deal of difference whether you're company at a
+house or a boarder. They all felt a good deal like company at first, but
+by the next evening at supper time they felt different. Mr. 'Coon and
+Mr. 'Possum had been out all day bringing in things, too, and Mr. Crow
+had been cooking harder than ever. Mr. Robin was first to make remarks.
+He said the cherries were canned, and not very good at that.
+
+[Illustration: THE ARRIVAL OF THE OTHER GUESTS]
+
+"That's what I said," put in Mr. 'Coon, "but Mr. 'Possum said you
+wouldn't know the difference."
+
+"Oh, he did, did he?" says Mr. Robin. "Well, I've got better cherries
+than these at home," and he got up from the table with a disgusted air.
+
+Then Mr. Squirrel picked up some roasted nuts that the Crow had just
+brought in.
+
+"Where'd you get these nuts?" he says, after he'd cracked one or two of
+them.
+
+"Down on the slope of Green Bushes," says Mr. 'Coon. "Why, aren't they
+good ones?"
+
+"I suppose they were once," says Mr. Squirrel--"two or three years ago.
+Nuts have to be fresh to be good."
+
+"That's what I told him," says Mr. 'Possum, "but he said you wouldn't
+know the difference."
+
+"Oh, he did, did he?" says Mr. Squirrel. "Well, I've got better nuts
+than these at home," and Mr. Squirrel _he_ got up and left the table.
+
+Then Jack Rabbit began.
+
+"Where'd you get this salad?" he says, turning up his nose.
+
+"Out by Mr. Man's back gate," says Mr. 'Possum. "Why, isn't it good?"
+
+"Might have been once," says Mr. Rabbit. "I s'pose it's some Mr. Man
+threw out because it was wilted."
+
+"That's what I told him," says Mr. 'Coon, "but he said you wouldn't know
+the difference."
+
+"Oh, he did, did he? Well, I've got better salad than this at home," and
+Jack Rabbit _he_ got up and he left the table.
+
+And then, pretty soon, Mr. Turtle made a face over the fish because they
+were salt mackerel and not nice fresh fish, such as he was used to at
+home. So he got up and left the table, too, and there sat the 'Coon and
+'Possum and the Old Black Crow all by themselves and looking cheap
+enough to fall through the floor. Mr. Crow said it wasn't his fault, and
+then Mr. 'Coon and Mr. 'Possum commenced to blame it on each other, and
+nearly got into a fight. They were just about to fight when Mr. Crow
+happened to think of something. Mr. Crow always did think of things.
+
+"I'll tell you!" he says. "We'll just rent rooms."
+
+"Do what?" says Mr. 'Possum and Mr. 'Coon together.
+
+"Why, just rent each of our guests his room and let him take his meals
+out. Then we won't have any work."
+
+"Whoop-ee!" says Mr. 'Possum and Mr. 'Coon both together, as loud as
+ever they could. That made all the guests come running back, and when
+they heard the new plan they all said it was just the thing.
+
+So then Mr. 'Possum went down and got the sign and brought it up and
+changed it to read:--
+
+        THE HOLLOW TREE INN.
+        FURNISHED ROOMS ONLY.
+
+And that was how business began at last in the Hollow Tree.
+
+
+
+
+A DEEP WOODS FISHING PARTY
+
+AN ADVENTURE WITH MR. DOG AND A VERY LARGE FISH
+
+
+ONE warm, still June morning (this, of course, was before the Hollow
+Tree Inn started) Mr. Jack Rabbit looked out of the window while he was
+dressing and thought to himself that it would be just the very morning
+for fish to bite.
+
+Jack Rabbit liked to fish better than anything, almost, so right after
+breakfast he took an empty tomato can and went out in the back yard and
+turned over boards till he had the can about half full of bait, with a
+little dirt thrown on top. Then he reached up under the eaves of the
+smoke-house and pulled out a long cane pole with a line and hook and
+floater on it, all rigged up ready, and flung it over his shoulder and
+started.
+
+Mr. Rabbit walked pretty fast--even lazy folks do that when they go
+fishing, and Mr. Jack Rabbit wasn't lazy, by a good deal. So pretty soon
+he came to the Hollow Tree, and there, looking out of an up-stairs
+window, he saw the 'Coon, the 'Possum, and the Old Black Crow.
+
+"Hello, up there!" he said. "Don't you fellows want to go fishing?"
+
+Mr. 'Possum said he thought fish would bite well on such a morning, and
+that he'd like to go first rate. Mr. 'Coon said he knew a place where
+you could pull them out as fast as you could throw in your hook, and he
+went on and told how he caught a fish there last year that would weigh
+more than four pounds, and lost him just as he got him to the top of the
+water. Mr. Crow said he'd always noticed that Mr. 'Coon's four-pound
+fish never got any nearer to him than the top of the water, and that for
+his part he didn't care much about fishing. He said, though, that if
+the 'Coon and the 'Possum wanted to go he'd stay at home and get dinner
+while they were gone, so's to have it ready when they all came home
+hungry. He told them that he had some nice canned salmon in the cupboard
+that he could catch 'most any time, and that if they really wanted fish
+for dinner he s'posed he might as well open it. Then they all laughed,
+and in about a minute down came Mr. 'Coon and Mr. 'Possum with their
+fishing things. Jack Rabbit said he had plenty of bait, so away they
+went. Mr. Crow sat up in the window and watched them off, and Mr. Robin,
+who happened along just then, laughed and called after them that he'd
+take a few pounds of nice bass when they got home. The Robin just said
+that to plague them, of course, and Mr. 'Coon called back that they'd
+fool him this time, and then he went on to remark that he'd never in his
+life seen a finer day for fishing.
+
+Jack Rabbit said yes, that it was fine, and that it was a fine day for
+Mr. Dog to be out gallivanting over the country, too, and that they'd
+better hurry up and get to the lake and out in his boat before anything
+happened. That made Mr. 'Possum take a good deal livelier step, though
+he commenced to whistle and said he wasn't afraid of Mr. Dog, anyway.
+Mr. 'Coon said he'd always noticed that a fellow mostly whistled when he
+wasn't afraid, but for his part he couldn't get to that boat any too
+soon. And pretty soon they did get to it, and Mr. 'Possum was the first
+one to pile in, though Mr. Dog wasn't anywhere in sight.
+
+[Illustration: WHEN THEY GOT OUT TO WHERE MR. 'COON SAID THE GOOD PLACE
+WAS, THEY ALL WENT TO FISHING]
+
+Well, they pushed off, and Jack Rabbit took one oar and Mr. 'Coon the
+other, while the 'Possum sat on the back seat and baited his hook so's
+to catch the first fish. Then, when they got out to where Mr. 'Coon said
+the good place was, they all went to fishing, and Mr. 'Possum did get
+the first bite, but he didn't get anything else when he pulled. Mr.
+'Coon told him he pulled too quick, and Jack Rabbit told him he didn't
+pull quick enough, and asked him if he expected the fish to climb out on
+his pole. Then Mr. Rabbit had a bite himself, and pulled and didn't get
+anything, either. Of course, that made Mr. 'Possum laugh, and then, all
+at once, the 'Coon had a great big bite that took his float away down
+out of sight the first grab.
+
+Mr. 'Coon let him go for a minute and then gave a hard pull and
+commenced to call out that he had him this time and that he'd show Mr.
+Crow now about only getting fish to the top of the water and having
+canned salmon for dinner. Then he stood up in the boat and pulled as
+hard as ever he could till all of a sudden his line broke, and down he
+went backward, right on top of Mr. 'Possum, while the Rabbit swung his
+hook over where the 'Coon's hook had been and the big fish grabbed it
+before you could say Jack Robinson.
+
+That was too bad for the 'Coon and the 'Possum, of course, and it wasn't
+as much fun for Jack Rabbit as you might suppose, for he couldn't get
+the big fish out to save his life, and he had to hold on to the boat to
+keep from being pulled into the lake. Then he called to the others to
+help him, and they both got up and took hold of the pole and hauled it
+in hand over hand till they got to the line, and that was as far as they
+could get. So Mr. Rabbit gave the line a twist or two around the iron
+ring in the front of his boat, and the big fish started straight for
+shore, dragging the boat and everybody in it behind him, just as hard as
+ever he could go. Then Mr. 'Coon and Jack Rabbit commenced to quarrel
+about whose fish it was, and Mr. 'Possum said he didn't care whose it
+was, he was getting a free ride, and he laid back and laughed and looked
+at the shore, when all of a sudden he happened to spy there, sitting on
+the end of a log, fishing and waiting for them, nobody but Mr. Dog
+himself.
+
+That wasn't very much, of course, but it was plenty for Mr. 'Possum. He
+quit laughing and tumbled down in the bottom of the boat and laid there
+calling for Jack Rabbit to cut that fish line or they'd all be chops and
+steaks and carried home in a basket in less than five minutes. Jack
+Rabbit did try to cut the line, too, but he was so excited he dropped
+his knife overboard, and Mr. 'Coon couldn't find his, and Mr. 'Possum
+didn't have any. So there they were, and there was Mr. Dog! Then Mr.
+Rabbit tried to bite the line off with his teeth, but he couldn't do
+that, either, for it was a big, strong line that he'd made himself,
+specially for large fish.
+
+And all the time they were getting closer and closer to the shore, and
+Mr. Dog had lifted his line out of the water so it wouldn't be in his
+way, and was sitting there waiting, and smiling to see them come.
+
+Then Jack Rabbit knew that something had to be done, and there was no
+time to lose. He was just about as scared as he could be, but he knew it
+wouldn't do any good to let on, so he sat up straight and smiled some,
+too, and looked at Mr. Dog and called out, big and friendly like:--
+
+"Hello, Mr. Dog! Here we come! Here we come with a nice dinner, Mr.
+Dog!"
+
+Then Mr. Dog laughed and called back:--
+
+"That's right, Mr. Rabbit. There's a sure enough nice dinner coming this
+time! Fish for the first course, Mr. Rabbit!"
+
+When Mr. 'Possum heard that he began to groan, and Jack Rabbit and Mr.
+'Coon began to shiver, for each thought he knew pretty well what the
+next courses of Mr. Dog's dinner would be. But Mr. Rabbit didn't stop
+smiling or let on that he knew, and he called out again to Mr. Dog,
+quick:--
+
+"You'll have to help us if we have fish, Mr. Dog! He's a big one and
+you'll have to help us catch him!"
+
+And Mr. Dog called back again:--
+
+"Don't worry, Mr. Rabbit! I won't leave! I'll be on hand when you get
+here, Mr. Rabbit!"
+
+Then he rolled up his trousers a little and waded out into the shallow
+water, thinking he would nab Mr. Fish first and drag him out on shore,
+and then pull the boat right in after him.
+
+Of course, that was a pretty good plan for Mr. Dog, only like some other
+good plans, it didn't work just as he expected it to. You see, he didn't
+quite know how big the fish was, nor how hard a big fish is to handle in
+shallow water. He made a quick grab at it when it got to him and then,
+right away, he had his hands full of business. That fish gave a flop
+with his tail that laid Mr. Dog over on his back and then another flop
+that set him on his feet again, and a side flop that smacked him against
+the water first one way and then the other, and made him breathe hard
+and choke and try to let go.
+
+But Mr. Dog couldn't let go, for he'd got the fish line some way tangled
+in his teeth. So he began to snap and paw and swallow water, and fall
+down and get up again, and sprawl about in the swamp grass, trying to
+get back to shore.
+
+[Illustration: THE FIGHT BETWEEN MR. DOG AND THE BIG FISH]
+
+And while all this was going on Jack Rabbit and his friends had jumped
+out into the shallow water and took a little roundin's to shore, keeping
+out of Mr. Dog's way, and made tracks for the top of a hill, where they
+would be out of danger and see the fun at the same time. Then they all
+stood up there and watched the fight between Mr. Dog and the big fish,
+and Jack Rabbit sang out, as loud as ever he could:--
+
+"Don't leave, Mr. Dog! Stay with him, Mr. Dog! Hold him to it, Mr. Dog;
+you've got him! First course, Mr. Dog!"
+
+And Mr. Dog heard Jack Rabbit and got madder and madder every minute,
+till all of a sudden he got a lick on the side of the head from Mr.
+Fish's tail that made him see stars and broke the line. And away went
+the big fish out into deep water, while Mr. Dog crawled back to shore,
+wet and bruised from head to foot, and 'most dead.
+
+Then Mr. 'Coon and Mr. 'Possum and Jack Rabbit, standing on top of the
+hill, gave a great big laugh, all together, and Mr. Rabbit called
+out:--
+
+"How did you like the first course, Mr. Dog?"
+
+That made them all laugh again, and then Mr. 'Coon called out:--
+
+"Are you ready for the second course, Mr. Dog?"
+
+And pretty soon Mr. 'Possum he called out:--
+
+"Are you ready for a nice roast now, Mr. Dog?"
+
+And that, of course, made them all laugh very loud, for Mr. 'Possum used
+slang now and then and meant by a "roast" that people would all make fun
+of Mr. Dog wherever he went; which they did, for a long time.
+
+Even Mr. Robin, who was good friends with Mr. Dog, couldn't help calling
+out to him, now and then, as he went by:--
+
+"Are you ready for the next course, Mr. Dog?"
+
+And Mr. Dog would pretend not to hear and go hurrying by very fast, as
+if he were out on special and important business for Mr. Man.
+
+[Illustration: LEANING OVER TO LIGHT HIS PIPE FROM MR. 'POSSUM'S]
+
+
+
+
+MR. RABBIT EXPLAINS
+
+AN EASTER STORY
+
+
+"WHY do we always have rabbits at Easter?" asked the Little Lady. "Is
+that a story, too?"
+
+The Story Teller lit his pipe, thinking all the time, and pretty soon he
+said: "Why, yes, there is a story about that, and it goes this way":--
+
+One afternoon in the early spring Mr. Jack Rabbit and his friends were
+out for an airing. The Hollow Tree people were along, and Mr. Turtle, as
+usual. By and by they came to a log under a big tree and sat down for a
+smoke and talk. They talked about the weather at first and other things,
+till somebody mentioned Easter. Then they all had something to say
+about that.
+
+"What I object to," says Mr. Rabbit, when it came his time to talk, "is
+this thing of people always saying that the Easter eggs belong to me."
+
+"Oh, but that's just a joke," says Mr. 'Coon, laughing.
+
+"I know it's just a joke, of course, but it's a pretty old joke, and I'm
+tired of it," says Jack Rabbit.
+
+"How did it get started anyway?" asked Mr. 'Possum.
+
+Then Mr. Rabbit took his pipe out of his mouth and leaned forward a
+little, so he could talk better.
+
+"I tell you how it got started," he says, "and after that I don't want
+to hear any more of it. This is how it happened:--
+
+[Illustration: THEY CAME TO A LOG UNDER A BIG TREE AND SAT DOWN FOR A
+SMOKE AND TALK]
+
+"Once upon a time, as much as twenty grandmothers back, I should think,
+there was a very nice family of Rabbits that lived in a grassy place on
+a hillside back of a big farmyard. There was quite a hole in the
+ground there, and they had a cozy home in it, and a soft bed for their
+little folk.
+
+"Now, every bright morning, Father and Mother Rabbit used to take the
+children out for a walk, and for a few lessons in running and hiding
+from Mr. Dog, who bothered about a good deal, and one day as they were
+coming home they heard a great cackling, and when they got to their
+house there was a nice fresh egg lying right in the children's bed. Some
+old hen from the farmyard had slipped in and laid it while they were
+gone. A good many hens, especially old hens, like to hide their nests
+that way, and this was one of that kind.
+
+"Well, of course all the young Rabbits claimed it, and Mother Rabbit at
+last gave it to the smallest and weakest one of the children, a little
+girl, who was always painting things with the juice of flower petals.
+And the very first thing that little girl did was to stain that egg all
+over with violet juice, not thinking what trouble it was going to cause
+our family forever after.
+
+[Illustration: THEY HAD A COZY HOME AND A SOFT BED FOR THEIR LITTLE
+FOLK]
+
+"It was a nice blue egg when she got through with it, and the next day,
+when they all came back from their walk again there was another white
+egg right by it. The old hen had been there again and laid another while
+they were gone. The second little girl claimed that egg, of course, and
+she painted it a bright yellow with buttercup juice. Then the next day
+there was another egg, and the next day there was another egg, and the
+next day there was another egg, until there was one apiece for every one
+of the children, and some over.
+
+"And they all painted them. Some painted theirs pink or red with rose
+leaves or japonica, some painted them yellow with buttercups, and some
+blue or purple with violets, as the first little girl had done. They had
+so many at last that it crowded them out of their bed and they had to
+sleep on the floor.
+
+[Illustration: A FEW LESSONS IN RUNNING AND HIDING]
+
+"And then, one Sunday, and it must have been Easter Sunday, they all
+went out walking again, and when they came back every one of those
+beautiful colored eggs was gone. The children cried and made a great
+fuss, but it was no use. Some of Mr. Man's boys out hunting hens' nests
+had found them and taken them all home with them.
+
+"And of course all those colored eggs set Mr. Man to wondering, and he
+came with his boys to the place where they had found them; and when they
+looked in out jumped the whole Rabbit family, helter skelter in every
+direction.
+
+"And right then," said Mr. Rabbit, leaning over to light his pipe from
+Mr. 'Possum's, "right then Mr. Man declared those colored eggs were
+rabbit eggs, and he's kept on saying so ever since, though he knows
+better, and he knows I don't like it. He takes eggs and colors them
+himself now, and makes believe they're mine, and he puts my picture all
+over things about Easter time. I suppose he thinks I don't care, but I
+do, and I wish that little Miss Rabbit twenty grandmothers back had left
+that old hen's egg white as she found it."
+
+[Illustration: IT WAS A NICE BLUE EGG WHEN SHE GOT THROUGH WITH IT]
+
+"It's too bad," says Mr. Crow. "It's like that story they tell about the
+fox making me drop the cheese."
+
+"Or like Mr. Man making believe that the combs he uses are really made
+out of my shell," says Mr. Turtle.
+
+Mr. 'Coon and Mr. 'Possum shook their heads. They had their troubles,
+too.
+
+
+
+
+THE HOLLOW TREE POETRY CLUB
+
+HOW MR. DOG CAME TO A POETRY CLUB, AND WHAT HAPPENED
+
+
+ONCE upon a time, when it was getting along toward fall in the Hollow
+Tree, when Jack Rabbit and Mr. Robin and the others had come to live
+with the 'Coon and 'Possum and the Old Black Crow, there began to be
+long evenings, and the Hollow Tree people used to think of new ways to
+pass the time. They tried games at first, and sleight-of-hand tricks.
+Then they tried doing things, and Mr. Turtle carried them all together
+twice around the big parlor room on his back. But even that wasn't so
+funny after the first evening, and Mr. Crow, who did most of the
+thinking, had to scratch his head and think pretty hard what to do next.
+
+All at once he happened to remember that Jack Rabbit, who was the big
+man of the party, was also a first rate poet, and liked to read his own
+poetry better than anything. So, when he thought of that, he said:--
+
+"I'll tell you. We'll have a poetry club."
+
+And of course that made Mr. Rabbit wake up right away.
+
+"What's that?" he said. "What kind of a thing is a poetry club?"
+
+"Why," said Mr. Crow, "it's a place where the members each write a poem
+and read it at the next meeting. You're the only real, sure enough poet,
+of course, and will be president, and write the best poem, but the rest
+of us can try, and you can tell us our mistakes. I've heard that Mr. Man
+has clubs, and they're ever so much fun."
+
+[Illustration: HAD TO SCRATCH HIS HEAD AND THINK PRETTY HARD]
+
+Jack Rabbit thought so, too, and all the others liked the plan. So they
+elected Mr. Rabbit president and then went to work on their poems.
+They couldn't have the first meeting very soon, for it took longer to
+write poems in those days than it does now, so before they got half
+ready the news got out some way, and even Mr. Dog had heard of it.
+
+Poor Mr. Dog! It made him really quite ill to think he wasn't on very
+good terms with the Hollow Tree people, for he thought he could write
+pretty nice poetry, too, and he wanted to belong to that club worse than
+anything he could think of. He wanted to so bad that at last he told Mr.
+Robin that if they'd just let him come he'd promise anything they asked.
+
+[Illustration: POOR MR. DOG]
+
+They didn't want to let him, though, until Mr. Crow, who always felt
+kind of sorry for Mr. Dog, said he didn't see why Mr. Dog shouldn't come
+and look in through the window shutters, and that they could nail a seat
+for him on a limb just outside. They could pull him up to it with a rope
+and he could sit there and listen and applaud the poems all through
+without being able to do any damage to the poets, and he would be glad
+enough to be let down by the time they got done reciting.
+
+So they sent him an invitation, and Mr. Dog was as happy as a king. He
+went right to work on his poem, and he worked all night and walked up
+and down the yard all day trying to think up rhymes for "joyful" and
+"meeting," and a lot of other nice words. Even when he was asleep he
+dreamed about it, and said over some of the lines out loud and jerked
+his paws about as if he were reciting it and making motions. You see,
+Mr. Dog hadn't always done just right by the Hollow Tree people, and he
+was anxious to make a good impression and fix up things. He fixed
+himself all up, too, when the night came for the meeting, and took his
+poem under his arm and lit a cigar that he'd borrowed of Mr. Man for the
+occasion, and away he went.
+
+The Hollow Tree people were on the look-out for him and had the rope
+down and ready. So Mr. Dog tied it around under his arms, and they
+pulled and pulled, and up he came. Then, when he got pretty close to the
+window, they closed the shutter and put the rope through and pulled him
+up still a little higher, so that he could reach the seat on the limb,
+which was fixed just right for him to sit there and lean on the window
+sill while he listened and looked in.
+
+Of course, Mr. Dog wished he was inside, like the others, but he knew
+why he wasn't, and he was glad enough to be there at all. He peeked
+through the slats at the big room and smiled and said some nice things
+about how pretty the room looked, till they all got real sociable with
+him. Then Jack Rabbit called the meeting to order and made a few
+remarks.
+
+He said the duties of his office had kept him from writing quite as long
+and as good a poem as he would have liked to write, but that he hoped
+they might be willing to hear what he had done. Then they all shouted,
+"Yes, yes!" and "Hear, hear!" and Mr. Rabbit bowed first to the ones
+inside and then to Mr. Dog outside, and began:--
+
+
+THE JOYS OF POETRY
+
+BY J. RABBIT
+
+        Oh, sweet the joys of poetry
+           In the merry days of spring,
+        When the dew is on the meadow
+           And the duck is on the wing!
+        For 'tis then, from Dan to Dover,
+           I'm a rover 'mid the clover,
+        Seeking rhymes the country over
+           With a ring, sing, swing--
+           With a ding, dong, ding,
+           And a ting a ling a ling--
+        For I'm the rhyming rover of the spring.
+
+        Oh, sweet the joys of poetry
+           In the pleasant summer time!
+        For 'tis then I have no trouble
+           To compose my gentle rhyme;
+        In a nooklet by the brooklet
+        I can think up quite a booklet,
+        As with fishing line and hooklet
+           I assist the fish to climb
+           To the music of my chime,
+           For with rollick and with rhyme
+        I'm the poet of the pleasant summer time.
+
+[Illustration: MR. RABBIT BOWED]
+
+        Oh, sweet the joys of poetry
+           When any days have come,
+        When the autumn zephyrs whisper
+           Or the winter breezes hum!
+        For 'tis then my thoughts unfurling,
+        While the smoke goes upward curling,
+        Come a whirling, swirling, twirling,
+           With a rumty, tumty, tum,
+        Come a twirling, swirling, whirling,
+           Like a rattle of a drum.
+        Come a whirling, come a swirling;
+           For in spring or in the summer,
+           In the autumn or the winter
+           I'm the rumty, tumty, tummer
+        That rejoices in the seasons as they come.
+
+Well, when Mr. Rabbit got through everybody sat still for a minute, till
+Mr. Dog called out for somebody to come and unwind him so he could get
+his breath again. Then they all commenced to laugh and shout and pound
+on the table. And Mr. Rabbit coughed and looked pleased and said it was
+easy enough to do when you knew how.
+
+Then Mr. 'Possum, who was next on the program, said he hoped they'd let
+him off this time because he could only think of four lines, and that
+he was a better hand at the dinner table than he was at poetry, anyway.
+But they wouldn't do it, so he got up and looked foolish and swallowed
+two or three times before he could get started.
+
+
+WHAT I LOVE
+
+BY A. PUFFINGTON 'POSSUM
+
+        I love the fragrant chicken pie
+          That blooms in early spring;
+        I love a chicken stew or fry,
+          Or any old thing.
+
+Mr. 'Possum's poem was short, but it went right to the spot, and the way
+they applauded almost made Jack Rabbit jealous. He said that it was
+'most too true to be good poetry, but that it was good for a first
+effort, and that being short helped it. Then Mr. Robin spoke his
+piece:--
+
+
+MOTHER AND ME
+
+BY C. ROBIN
+
+        When the bud breaks out on the maple bough
+         Mother and me we build our nest--
+        A twig from the yard and a wisp from the mow
+          And four blue eggs 'neath the mother breast.
+        Up in the tree, mother and me,
+        Happy and blithe and contented are we.
+
+        When the daisies fall and the roses die,
+          An empty nest in the boughs to swing--
+        Four young robins that learn to fly
+          And a sweet adieu till another spring.
+        Then up in the tree, mother and me,
+        Happy once more and contented we'll be.
+
+The applause wasn't so loud after Mr. Robin's poem, but they all said it
+was very pretty, and Mr. 'Possum even wiped his eyes with his
+handkerchief, because it made him remember something sad. Mr. Rabbit
+said that it ought to be "Mother and I," but that it didn't make much
+difference, he supposed, about grammar, so long as it rhymed and sounded
+nice. Then Mr. Crow got up.
+
+[Illustration: LOOKED FOOLISH AND SWALLOWED TWO OR THREE TIMES]
+
+
+JUST NOTHING
+
+BY J. CROW
+
+        While others may sing of the pleasures of spring,
+          Or winter or summer or fall,
+        I'll sing not of these, because, if you please,
+          I'll sing of just nothing at all.
+        Just nothing at all, because, oh, ho!
+        I'll sing of myself, an old black crow.
+
+        As black as a coal and as homely as sin--
+          What more can I tell you, I pray?
+        For when you have nothing to sing of, why, then,
+          Of course there is nothing to say.
+        Nothing to say at all, oh, ho!
+        Except good-by to the old black crow--
+        The rollicking old black crow!
+
+They made a good deal of fuss over Mr. Crow's poem. They applauded, of
+course, but they said it wasn't so at all, and that Mr. Crow was a good
+deal more than "just nothing." They said that it was he who had got up
+this party, and that he was the best man to plan and cook anywhere. Mr.
+'Possum said he even liked Mr. Crow's April fool chicken pies, and then
+they all remembered and laughed, even to Mr. Crow himself. After that it
+was Mr. Squirrel's turn. Mr. Squirrel coughed twice and straightened his
+vest before he began, so they knew his poem wasn't to be funny.
+
+
+THE FOOLISH LITTLE LAD
+
+BY MR. GRAY SQUIRREL
+
+        Once on a time, the story goes,
+          A silly squirrel lad
+        One summer day did run away--
+          Which made his ma feel bad.
+
+        She hunted for him up and down
+          And round and round she ran--
+        Alas, that foolish squirrel boy
+          Was caught by Mr. Man.
+
+        For he had tried to climb a tree
+          As Mr. Man came past.
+        "I'll make you climb!" said Mr. Man,
+          And walked home pretty fast.
+
+        When he got there a boy came out
+          As Mr. Man went in.
+        That silly squirrel soon was put
+          Into a house of tin.
+
+        "Now you can climb!" said Mr. Man,
+          But when he did he found
+        That nice tin house, so bright and new,
+          Turned round and round and round.
+
+        And there he climbs and climbs all day
+          And never seems to stop,
+        And I have heard my mother say
+          He'll never reach the top.
+
+When Mr. Squirrel sat down there wasn't a dry eye in the room, and even
+Mr. Dog outside was affected. He said he'd seen that poor little
+squirrel at Mr. Man's house turning and turning away in his tin wheel,
+and felt so sorry for him that two or three times he'd tried to get him
+out. He said, though, that Mr. Man had always caught him at it and that
+then they didn't get on well for a day or two. He was so tender hearted,
+though, he said, that he couldn't help pitying the little fellow,
+climbing and climbing all day long and never getting anywhere. Mr.
+'Possum shivered, and said it reminded him of bad dreams he'd had
+sometimes, when he'd eaten too much supper, and dreamed of climbing the
+rainbow. Then they all sat still and waited for Mr. Turtle, who came
+next.
+
+
+MY SNUG HOUSE
+
+BY D'LAND TURTLE
+
+        Oh, what do I care for your houses of wood,
+          Your houses of brick or of stone,
+        When I have a house that is cozy and good--
+          A beautiful house of my own?
+        And the doors will not sag and the roof will not crack
+        Of the house that I carry about on my back.
+
+        It is never too large and 'tis never too small,
+          It is with me wherever I roam.
+        In spring or in summer, in winter or fall,
+          I always can find my way home.
+        For it isn't so hard to remember the track
+        To the house that you carry about on your back.
+
+Well, of course, everybody applauded that, and then it was Mr. 'Coon's
+time. Mr. 'Coon said he was like Mr. 'Possum. He wasn't much on poetry,
+and only had four lines. He said they were some like Mr. 'Possum's too.
+
+
+THE BEST THINGS
+
+BY Z. 'COON
+
+        I like the spring, I like the fall,
+          I like the cold and heat,
+        And poems, too, but best of all
+          I like good things to eat.
+
+That brought the house down, and the Hollow Tree people thought the
+entertainment was over. They were going to have supper right away, but
+Mr. Dog called out to wait a minute. He said he had a little poem
+himself that he wanted to read. So out of politeness they all sat still,
+though they didn't expect very much. Then Mr. Dog unrolled his poem and
+leaned over close to the blinds and commenced to read.
+
+
+MY FOREST FRIENDS
+
+BY MR. DOG
+
+        Oh, dear to me my forest friends,
+          Especially Mr. Rabbit--
+        I love his poetry very much,
+          And every gentle habit.
+
+        And dear to me is Mr. 'Coon,
+          And also Mr. 'Possum;
+        I hope to win their friendship soon--
+          'Twill be a precious blossom.
+
+        And Mr. Crow and Robin, too,
+          With fancy sweet and fertile,
+        And Mr. Squirrel, kind and true,
+          And likewise Mr. Turtle.
+
+[Illustration: LEANED OVER CLOSE TO THE BLINDS AND COMMENCED TO READ]
+
+        Oh, dear to me my forest friends,
+          Especially Mr. Rabbit--
+        I love his poetry very much,
+          And every gentle habit.
+
+Before Mr. Dog was half through reading the Hollow Tree people had
+gathered around the window to listen. By the time he got to the end of
+the third stanza he had to stop for them to cheer, and when he read the
+last one, Jack Rabbit pounded on the shutter with his fist and shouted,
+"Hurrah for Mr. Dog! Hurrah for Mr. Dog!" just as loud as ever he could,
+while all the others crowded up and shouted and tried to pound, too.
+
+Well, maybe the shutter wasn't very strong, or maybe they crowded and
+pounded too hard in their excitement over Mr. Dog's nice poem, for all
+at once there was a loud crack and the shutter flew open and out went
+Mr. Rabbit right smack into the arms of Mr. Dog!
+
+[Illustration: OUT WENT MR. RABBIT RIGHT SMACK INTO THE ARMS OF MR. DOG]
+
+I tell you that was pretty sudden and Mr. Rabbit was scared. So were all
+the others, and they were going to grab the shutter and close it again
+and leave Mr. Rabbit out there. But Jack Rabbit thinks quick.
+
+"Oh, Mr. Dog," he said, "that was the nicest poem I ever heard. Let me
+embrace you, Mr. Dog, and be your friend for ever after!"
+
+Then he hugged Mr. Dog just as tight as he could, and Mr. Dog hugged
+him, too, and shed tears, he was that happy. He had been wanting to make
+up with the forest people for a long time, but he hadn't expected this.
+Then the others all saw how it was and they shouted, "Hurrah for Mr.
+Dog!" again and invited him in. And Mr. Dog went in and they had the
+biggest supper and the biggest time that ever was known in the Hollow
+Tree.
+
+And that's how Mr. Dog got to be friends with all the Hollow Tree people
+at last. And he stayed friends with them ever and ever so long--and
+longer--just as long as he lived, for the Mr. Dog that isn't good
+friends with them now isn't the same Mr. Dog. And he isn't as smart,
+either, for he can't write poetry, and he's never even been able to
+find the Hollow Tree where the 'Coon and 'Possum and the Old Black Crow
+live together and every summer keep open house for their friends.
+
+
+
+
+MR. RABBIT'S UNWELCOME COMPANY
+
+MR. POLECAT MAKES A MORNING CALL AND MR. DOG DROPS IN
+
+
+I THINK I shall have to tell you about Mr. Polecat, said the Story
+Teller, and about his visit to Mr. Rabbit.
+
+"Who's Mr. Polecat?" said the Little Lady. "You never told me about him
+before."
+
+Well, no, because you see Mr. Polecat is so queer in some of his ways
+that people even don't talk about him a great deal. He is really quite a
+nice gentleman, though, when he doesn't get excited. But when he does he
+loses friends.
+
+The trouble is with the sort of perfumery he uses when he gets excited,
+just as some people use a smelling-bottle, and nobody seems to like the
+sort Mr. Polecat uses except himself. I suppose he must like it or he
+wouldn't be so free with it. But other people go away when he uses
+it--mostly in the direction the wind's blowing from--and in a hurry, as
+if they were afraid they'd miss a train. Even Mr. Dog doesn't stop to
+argue with Mr. Polecat. Nobody does, and all the other Deep Woods people
+do their best to make him happy and to keep him in a good humor whenever
+he comes about, and give him their nicest things to eat and a lot to
+carry home with him, so he'll start just as soon as possible.
+
+But, more than anything, they try to keep him from saying anything about
+Mr. Dog, or hinting or even thinking about Mr. Dog, for when he does any
+of these things he's apt to get excited, and then sometimes he opens up
+that perfume of his, and his friends fall over each other to get out of
+reach. They're never very happy to see him coming, and they're always
+glad to see him go, even when he's had a quiet visit and goes pretty
+soon, which is just what didn't happen one time when he came to call on
+Jack Rabbit, and it's that time I'm going to tell about. This was before
+Mr. Dog made up with the Hollow Tree people; I don't know exactly how
+long before, but a good while.
+
+Mr. Rabbit looked out his door one morning and there was Mr. Polecat,
+all dressed up, coming to see him. He wasn't very far off, either, and
+Mr. Rabbit hardly had time to jerk down a crayon picture of Mr. Dog that
+he'd made the day before, just for practice. He pushed it under the bed
+quick, and when Mr. Polecat came up he bowed and smiled, and said what a
+nice day it was, and that he'd bring a chair outside if Mr. Polecat
+would like to sit there instead of coming in where it wasn't so
+pleasant.
+
+But Mr. Polecat said he guessed he'd come in, as it was a little chilly
+and he didn't feel very well anyway. So he came inside, and Jack Rabbit
+gave him his best chair and brought out a little table and put a lot of
+nice things on it that Mr. Polecat likes, and began right away to pack a
+basket for him to take home.
+
+But Mr. Polecat didn't seem to be in any hurry to go. He ate some of the
+nice things, and then leaned back to talk and smoke, and told Mr. Rabbit
+all the news he'd heard as he came along, and Mr. Rabbit got more and
+more worried, for he knew that just as likely as not Mr. Polecat had
+heard something about Mr. Dog and would begin to tell it pretty soon,
+and then no knowing what would happen. So Jack Rabbit just said "Yes"
+and "No" and began to talk about Mr. Robin, because Mr. Robin was a good
+friend of everybody and nobody could get excited just talking about Mr.
+Robin. But Mr. Polecat says:--
+
+"Oh, yes, I saw Mr. Robin as I came along, and he called to me that Mr.
+Dog--"
+
+And then Jack Rabbit changed the subject as quick as he could and spoke
+about Mr. Squirrel, and Mr. Polecat says:--
+
+"Oh, did you hear how Mr. Squirrel went over to Mr. Man's house and saw
+Mr. Dog there--"
+
+And then poor Mr. Rabbit had to think quick and change the subject again
+to the Hollow Tree people, and Mr. Polecat said:--
+
+"Oh, yes. I stopped by that way as I came along, and they called out to
+me from up stairs how you were practising drawing, and that you gave Mr.
+Dog some dancing lessons the other day, and then made a fine picture of
+him just as he looked when he danced into the hot coals, so I hurried
+right over here for just to see that picture."
+
+Poor Mr. Rabbit! He didn't know what to do. He knew right away that the
+Hollow Tree people had told about the picture to get rid of Mr. Polecat,
+and he made up his mind that he'd get even with them some day for
+getting him in such a fix. But some day was a long ways off and Mr.
+Polecat was right there under his nose, so Mr. Rabbit said, just as
+quick as he could say it, that the Hollow Tree people were always
+making jokes, and that the picture was just as poor as it could be, and
+that he'd be ashamed to show it to anybody, much more to a talented
+gentleman like Mr. Polecat. But that made Mr. Polecat all the more
+anxious to see it, for he was sure Mr. Rabbit was only modest, and
+pretty soon he happened to spy the edge of the picture frame under Mr.
+Rabbit's bed, and just reached under and pulled it out, before Mr.
+Rabbit could help himself.
+
+Well, he picked up that picture and looked at it a minute, and Jack
+Rabbit began to back off toward the door and say a few soothing words,
+when all at once Mr. Polecat leaned back and commenced to laugh and
+laugh at the funny picture Mr. Dog made where Mr. Rabbit called to him,
+"Dance! Mr. Dog; dance!" And then, of course, Mr. Rabbit felt better,
+for if his company thought it was funny and laughed there wasn't so much
+danger.
+
+"Why," said Mr. Polecat, "it's the best thing I ever saw! You could
+almost imagine that Mr. Dog himself was right here, howling and barking
+and dancing."
+
+"Oh, no, hardly that," said Mr. Rabbit. "Of course I suppose it is a
+little like him, but it's not at all as if he were here, you know--not
+at all--and he's ever so far off, I'm sure, and won't come again for a
+long time. You know, he's--"
+
+"Oh, yes, it is!" declared Mr. Polecat. "It's just as if he were right
+here. And I can just hear him howl and bark, and--"
+
+And right there Mr. Polecat stopped and Mr. Rabbit stopped, and both of
+them held their breath and listened, for sure enough they did hear Mr.
+Dog howling and barking and coming toward the house as straight as he
+could come.
+
+Jack Rabbit gave a jump right up in the air, and hollered, "Run! Mr.
+Polecat, run! and go the back way!" But Mr. Polecat never runs from
+anybody--he doesn't have to--he just opens up that perfume of his and
+the other people do the running. So Mr. Rabbit gave one more jump, and
+this time he jumped straight up the chimney, and didn't stop till he
+got to the roof, where he found a loose board and put it over the
+chimney quick and sat down on it. Then he called to Mr. Dog, who was
+coming lickety split through the woods:--
+
+"Why, how are you, Mr. Dog? Glad to see you! Walk right in. There's
+company down stairs; just make yourself at home till I come down." You
+see there was no use to stop him now, because Mr. Rabbit could tell by
+what was coming up the chimney that it was too late, and he wanted Mr.
+Dog to get a good dose of it as well as himself.
+
+And Mr. Dog did come just as hard as he could tear, for the wind was
+blowing toward the house and he couldn't detect anything wrong until he
+gave a great big jump into Mr. Rabbit's sitting room and right into the
+midst of the most awful smell that was ever turned loose in the Big Deep
+Woods.
+
+Well, it took Mr. Dog so suddenly that he almost fainted away. Then he
+gave a howl, as if a wagon had run over his tail, and tumbled out of
+that sitting room and set out for home without once stopping to look
+behind him. Then Mr. Rabbit laughed and laughed, and called:--
+
+"Come back, Mr. Dog! Come back and stay with us. Mr. Polecat's going to
+spend a week with me. Come back and have a good time."
+
+But Mr. Dog didn't stop, and he didn't seem to hear, and by and by Mr.
+Polecat called up that he was going home and that Mr. Rabbit could come
+down now, for Mr. Dog was gone and wouldn't come back, he guessed. But
+Mr. Rabbit said no, he didn't feel very well yet, and guessed he'd stay
+where he was for the present, and that if Mr. Polecat was going he might
+leave both doors open and let the wind draw through the house, because
+he always liked to air his house after Mr. Dog had been to see him. Then
+Mr. Polecat took his basket and went, and Jack Rabbit didn't come down
+for a long time, and when he did he couldn't stay in his house for the
+awful smell. So he went over to stay a week with the Hollow Tree people,
+and his clothes didn't smell nice, either, but they had to stand it, and
+Mr. Rabbit said it served them right for getting him into such a fix. It
+was over a week before he could go back to his house again, and even
+then it wasn't just as he wanted it to be, and he aired it every day for
+a long time.
+
+But there was one thing that made him laugh, and that was when he heard
+from Mr. Robin how Mr. Dog got home and Mr. Man wouldn't have him about
+the house or even in the yard, but made him stay out in the woods for as
+much as ten days, until he had got rid of every bit of Mr. Polecat's
+nice perfumery.
+
+
+
+
+MR. 'POSSUM EXPLAINS
+
+HOW UNCLE SILAS TRIED TO PLEASE AUNT MELISSY
+
+
+WELL, you remember that the Hollow Tree people took four of their
+friends to live with them and called it the Hollow Tree Inn. Mr. Robin
+came, and Mr. Turtle, also Jack Rabbit and Mr. Squirrel, and they made a
+jolly crowd after they got settled and knew about each getting his own
+things to eat, because the Hollow Tree people--the 'Coon and 'Possum and
+the Old Black Crow--found they couldn't suit their guests exactly when
+it came to a steady diet. So they all kept house together, and used to
+go out days (and nights, too, sometimes) and get nice things. Then
+they'd bring them in and fix them to suit themselves, and have them all
+on the big table down stairs, nice and comfortable, where they could sit
+and talk as long as they pleased.
+
+It was a good deal like a big family when they were all together that
+way, and they used to say how nice it was, and once Mr. 'Possum said he
+always did think a big family was nice, anyway. Then Jack Rabbit laughed
+and said he should think Mr. 'Possum was just the kind of a man for a
+big family, being fond of good things to eat and not very fond of
+getting them for himself, and mostly fat and sleepy like. He said if
+there was just a nice, spry Mrs. 'Possum, now, to keep house and look
+after things he should think it would be ever so much better than living
+in bachelor quarters, or, rather, thirds, with Mr. 'Coon and Mr. Crow,
+and not having things very orderly. Of course, with himself, Jack Rabbit
+said, it was different, but even at his house it got lonesome, too, now
+and then.
+
+[Illustration: SHE TIED HIS TIE FOR HIM]
+
+Well, Mr. 'Possum thought a minute, and then he said that there was such
+a thing as folks being too spry, and that it was because he had always
+been afraid of getting that kind that he had been pretty well satisfied
+to live in the Hollow Tree just as he was. He said that he had once had
+an uncle that something happened to in that line, and whenever he
+thought about poor Uncle Lovejoy he didn't seem to care much about
+trying anything he wasn't used to. Then they all wanted him to tell
+about Uncle Lovejoy and what happened to him. So Mr. 'Possum did tell,
+and it went this way:--
+
+"Once upon a time," he said, "Uncle Lovejoy--we always called him Uncle
+Silas then--he was uncle on my mother's side, and lived with Aunt
+Melissy in a nice place just beyond the Wide Paw-paw Hollows--once upon
+a time, as I was saying, he had to go to town on some business, and that
+was something that never happened to Uncle Lovejoy before.
+
+[Illustration: COUSIN GLENWOOD MET HIM AT THE STATION]
+
+"Well, Aunt Melissy was always a spry woman, as I said, and
+stirring--very stirring, and primpy, too. But she was never as stirring
+and spry and primpy as she was the day that Uncle Silas started for
+town. She dressed him all up neat and proper in his very best things,
+and tied his tie for him, and while she was tying it she says:--
+
+[Illustration: COUSIN GLEN TOOK UNCLE LOVEJOY TO THE STORES]
+
+"'Now, Silas,' she says, 'when you get to town you buy a few little
+articles right away and put them on. You don't want folks to see that
+you come from the country, you know, and you don't want Cousin Glenwood
+to be ashamed of you before folks. Cousin Glen will know just what
+things you need and where to get them.' Then she told him not to get run
+over by anything, or blow out the gas, or let anybody see that he wasn't
+used to things, because, you see, Aunt Melissy was proud, being a
+Glenwood herself. Then Uncle Lovejoy promised all those things, and that
+he would use his napkin and not eat pie out of his hand or drink out of
+his finger bowl, and a lot more things that Aunt Melissy remembered at
+the last minute. So you see by the time he got on the train he had a
+good deal to think about, and he kept thinking about it until by the
+time he got to the city he'd made up his mind he'd try to do for once
+everything she told him to and give her a pleasant surprise with the way
+he had fixed up and improved his manners when he got back. Uncle Lovejoy
+was good natured, and always anxious to please folks, especially Aunt
+Melissy.
+
+[Illustration: WHERE THERE WAS A MIRROR UNCLE LOVEJOY WOULD STAND BEFORE
+IT AND ADMIRE HIMSELF]
+
+"Well, Cousin Glenwood met him at the station, and about the first thing
+Uncle Silas said was to ask him where he got his clothes, and to tell
+him that Aunt Melissy had said he was to fix up, so's folks wouldn't
+think he came from the country, which, of course, she had. That just
+suited Cousin Glenwood, for he liked to spend money and show off what he
+knew about the city; so he took Uncle Lovejoy 'most everywhere, and told
+him to buy 'most everything he saw. And of course Uncle Silas did it,
+because he wanted to surprise Aunt Melissy when he got back, and make
+her feel happy for once in her life.
+
+"Cousin Glen took Uncle Lovejoy to the stores first, and then to a good
+many different kinds of places afterward, and every place where there
+was a mirror Uncle Lovejoy would stand before it and admire himself and
+wonder what Aunt Melissy would say when he got home. He kept buying new
+things every day, because every day he'd see somebody with something on
+or carrying or leading something, and when he remembered what Aunt
+Melissy said, he made up his mind he'd have to have all the things to
+please her, and he got them as far as he could. Even Cousin Glenwood had
+to commence buying things pretty soon to keep up, and before long people
+used to stop on the street and look at them when they went by. Uncle
+Silas didn't want to go home, either, when the time came, but of course
+he had to, and he put on his best clothes for the trip, and took a young
+man he'd hired to wait on him, and started.
+
+[Illustration: PEOPLE USED TO STOP ON THE STREET AND LOOK AT THEM]
+
+"He didn't tell Aunt Melissy just what time he'd be there, so it was a
+surprise sure enough. He walked right into the yard, and behind was the
+young man he'd hired, carrying his things. Aunt Melissy was getting
+dinner, and had just come to the door a minute to see what time it was
+by the sun, when all of a sudden, as she looked up, there he was! He had
+his hat in one hand and a cane in the other, and was leading a game
+chicken by a string. All his boxes and bundles and the young man were
+behind him. Uncle Lovejoy wore an eyeglass, too, and smoked a paper
+thing he said was a cigarette. My little cousins, who were there, told
+me afterward that their pa had never looked so fine in his life before
+or since. They didn't know him at all, and neither did Aunt Melissy. She
+thought he was somebody with something to sell at first, and when he
+said, 'Aw, there, Melissah!' she threw up her hands and was about to
+call for help, when just that minute she saw it was Uncle Silas.
+
+[Illustration: HE WALKED RIGHT INTO THE YARD, AND BEHIND WAS THE YOUNG
+MAN HE'D HIRED]
+
+"Poor Uncle Silas! He meant to surprise her, and he did it sure
+enough. He meant to please her, though, and he didn't do that worth a
+cent. It seemed funny, but she was mad. That's just the trouble about
+women folks; you never know when you're going to please them. My little
+cousins said they never saw their ma so mad before or since. She made
+Uncle Lovejoy take off all his nice clothes, and the young man, too, and
+she cooked the game chicken for dinner. Then, right after dinner, she
+picked up a bag of shinney sticks that Uncle Lovejoy had brought home,
+and she says to him and the young man:--
+
+[Illustration: "NOW YOU GET OUT IN THE GARDEN, BOTH OF YOU"]
+
+"'Now you get out in the garden,' she says, 'both of you, and try to
+earn back some of this money you've been spending.' And Uncle Lovejoy
+didn't feel very much like it, but he went, and so did the young man. So
+did Aunt Melissy, and she used up most of those shinney sticks on Uncle
+Silas and the young man before fall, and Uncle Silas never saw any of
+his nice clothes again, though they had the best garden they ever did
+have, so my little cousins said.
+
+"And that," said Mr. 'Possum, leaning back in his chair to smoke,
+"that's why I've always been afraid to try family life. It's easier to
+please one than two, especially when the other one is a spry, stirring
+person like Aunt Melissy Lovejoy."
+
+"What became of all the good clothes?" asked Jack Rabbit, who was always
+very stylish.
+
+"Why, I've heard," said Mr. 'Possum, "that Aunt Melissy made some of
+them over for my little cousins, and that she traded off the rest of
+them to a pedler for patent medicine to give Uncle Silas for a weak
+mind, and I think he needed it some myself for trying to please her in
+the first place."
+
+Mr. Rabbit nodded.
+
+"It takes all kinds of people to make a world," he said.
+
+Mr. 'Coon yawned and rubbed his eyes. The others were fast asleep.
+
+
+
+
+AROUND THE WORLD AND BACK AGAIN
+
+
+ONCE upon a time, when Mr. Dog was over spending the evening with the
+Hollow Tree people, he told them that Mr. Man had said the world was
+round, like a ball. Of course this was after Mr. Dog got to be good
+friends with the 'Possum and the 'Coon and the Old Black Crow, and he
+often used to come over to the Hollow Tree, where they lived, for a
+quiet talk and smoke, and to tell the things that Mr. Man said and did,
+and what he had on his table for dinner.
+
+The Hollow Tree people liked to hear about Mr. Man, too; but when they
+heard what he said about the world being round they thought there must
+be some mistake in the way Mr. Dog had understood it. Mr. 'Coon said
+that it couldn't be so, for the edge of the world was just beyond the
+last trees of the Big Deep Woods, and that he'd often sat there and hung
+his feet over and watched the moon come up. Mr. 'Possum said so, too;
+and Mr. Crow said that the other edge was over along the Wide Blue
+Water, where Mr. Turtle lived, and that of course the water was flat, as
+everybody could see. Anyway, it would spill out if it wasn't.
+
+But Mr. Dog stuck to it that Mr. Man had said just what Mr. Dog had said
+he said, and that, what was more, Mr. Man had said that the world turned
+over every day, and that the sun and moon and stars all went round it.
+And Mr. Man had said, too, that people sometimes went around the world,
+and didn't turn over or fall off into the sky when they were underneath,
+but kept on, and came up on the other side, right back to the very
+place they started from.
+
+Well, that made them all wonder a good deal more than ever; and Mr. Jack
+Rabbit, who came in just then for the evening, said he shouldn't be a
+bit surprised if it were true, for he'd often noticed how the seasons
+went round and round, and he thought, now, they must travel around the
+world some way, too. He said he'd composed some poetry on Spring as he
+came along, and that now he understood some lines of it better than he
+had at the start; for, of course, when poetry just comes to anybody, as
+it does to Mr. Rabbit, it isn't expected that even the poet himself will
+understand it very well at first.
+
+Then they all wanted to hear Jack Rabbit's poem, and Mr. Rabbit said
+that it really wasn't just as he wanted it yet, but that if they
+wouldn't expect too much, he'd let them hear how it went, anyway.
+
+
+WHICH WAY, SPRING?
+
+BY J. RABBIT
+
+              O Spring,
+              Ho, Spring!
+        Whither do you go, Spring?
+        If I did but know, Spring,
+          I would go there, too.
+              Pray, Spring,
+              Say, Spring,
+        Whither and away, Spring?
+        I would start to-day, Spring,
+          If I go with you.
+
+And Spring answers:--
+
+              Why, sir,
+              I, sir,
+        Just go tripping by, sir--
+        If you did but try, sir,
+          You could go with me.
+              Follow,
+              Follow,
+        Over hill and hollow--
+        Where the bluebirds call, O,
+          I am sure to be.
+
+Well, everybody applauded that, of course; and Mr. 'Coon said that for
+his part he was tired of cold weather, and that if to-morrow was a
+bright day, and anybody'd go with him, he'd start out at sunrise and
+follow Spring clear around the world. Then Mr. 'Possum said he'd go just
+to see whether Mr. Man was right or not, and Mr. Crow said he'd go, too.
+Mr. Rabbit wanted to go to prove some things in his poem, but he had to
+make a garden if it was a good day, and Mr. Dog had an engagement to dig
+moles for Mr. Man.
+
+So the next morning, bright and early, the three Hollow Tree people got
+up and started. They packed some lunch in a basket, so they wouldn't get
+hungry, in case they were gone all day, and set out in high spirits; for
+it was a beautiful morning in April, and they knew Spring had come at
+last.
+
+They saw a bluebird up in a tree not far away, and they remembered what
+Mr. Rabbit's poem had said about following him over hill and hollow; so
+they went along in that direction, talking and whistling and singing,
+because they felt so good in the fresh morning sunlight.
+
+And Mr. Bluebird hopped and whistled and flew along ahead, until, by and
+by, they came to where Mr. Fox lived.
+
+"Where are you fellows going so early?" called Mr. Fox.
+
+"We're following Spring around the world," called back Mr. Crow; and
+then they told him all that Mr. Dog had said.
+
+Then Mr. Fox looked very wise, for he didn't know if Mr. Dog was playing
+a trick on them, or if it were really true that the world was round and
+he hadn't heard of it. Anyway, he wasn't going to let on, so he said:--
+
+[Illustration: SET OUT IN HIGH SPIRITS]
+
+"Why, of course! I knew that all the time. You just keep right on until
+you come to that big elm over yonder, and turn to the right. Anybody
+over there can show you the way." Then Mr. Fox coughed and went back
+into the house, but he made up his mind he wouldn't laugh until he had
+seen Mr. Dog and was sure it was all a joke. And the Hollow Tree people
+kept on to the elm tree, and, sure enough, there was Mr. Bluebird,
+hopping and whistling and flying on ahead, for he'd been listening to
+what Mr. Fox had told them.
+
+So they hurried right along after him till they came to Mr. Wolf's
+place. Mr. Wolf was looking out of his door as they came by.
+
+"Hello, you early birds!" he called. "Whose hen roost you been after?"
+
+Then they told him they weren't thinking of such things as that on a
+beautiful morning like this, but that they were following Spring around
+the world. And they told him all that Mr. Man had said to Mr. Dog, and
+what Mr. Fox had said, and about Jack Rabbit's poem. Mr. Wolf thought
+he'd better be wise, too, until he found out just how things were, so he
+said:--
+
+"Sure enough! That's a good plan. I'd go along if I had time. I know the
+way well. You just keep on till you come to that creek yonder, then
+cross and turn to the right, and after that any one can show you the
+way."
+
+So away went the Hollow Tree people, and when they got to the creek, and
+crossed, and turned to the right, there was the bluebird again, hopping
+and whistling and dancing on ahead, just in the direction that Mr. Wolf
+had said to go. Then, pretty soon, Mr. 'Possum said he was hungry, so
+they sat down on some moss and ate their lunch, and Mr. Bluebird came up
+close and sang to them till Mr. 'Possum went to sleep in the sun and
+took a little nap, while the 'Coon and the Crow put what was left back
+into the basket and got ready to go. Then Mr. 'Possum woke up and said
+he was sure they must be nearly around the world, for he'd just had a
+dream about catching a chicken with four legs and two heads, and he knew
+that must mean something good. So then they went on and the bluebird
+went ahead, until they came to a fine, big cave, where Mr. Bear lived.
+
+Now, Mr. Bear is very big and wise--at least he thinks he is--and he
+knew right away that Mr. Dog was just playing a joke on them, or at
+least he thought he did, so he said:--
+
+"Well, well! I supposed you fellows knew all that long ago. You don't
+mean to say, do you, that this is really your first time round? Why, I
+go round the world every spring and fall, and buy most of my things on
+the other side. You just follow this path till you come to a big black
+rock, and then turn to the right and keep straight ahead. You can't miss
+the way."
+
+[Illustration: "FOLLOW THIS PATH TILL YOU COME TO A BIG BLACK ROCK,"
+SAID MR. BEAR]
+
+Then Mr. Bear went back in his cave, and laid down and rolled over and
+laughed to think what a big joke everybody was playing on the Hollow
+Tree people. But the Hollow Tree people kept right on, for they saw Mr.
+Bluebird still whistling and dancing on ahead; and by and by they came
+to the big black rock that Mr. Bear had mentioned, and turned to the
+right again as he had told them to do. Then they walked and walked,
+and Mr. Bluebird hopped and skipped and whistled, until at last, just as
+they were all getting very tired and it was 'most night, they came to a
+big hollow tree in a deep woods; and Mr. 'Possum looked up and says:--
+
+"Why," he says, "this tree looks a good deal like our tree!"
+
+And Mr. 'Coon, he says:--
+
+"Why, it's just like our tree!"
+
+And Mr. Crow, he says:--
+
+"Why, it _is_ our tree!" for of course they'd turned to the right three
+times, which brought them right back where they started from, though
+they did not know it.
+
+So then all at once they commenced to laugh and shout:--
+
+"We've done it! We've done it!
+
+        "We've followed Spring around the world,
+           According to the plan!
+         Hurrah for Mr. Rabbit!
+           And hurrah for Mr. Man!"
+
+[Illustration: AND MR. CROW, HE SAYS, "WHY, IT _IS_ OUR TREE!"]
+
+And the bluebird up in the branches whistled and danced and shouted,
+too; and Jack Rabbit and Mr. Dog came over pretty soon to see if
+they'd got home yet. And of course Mr. Rabbit was proud about the way
+his poem had turned out; and Mr. Dog he was proud, too, on Mr. Man's
+account. Then they all had a big supper, to celebrate, and by and by Mr.
+Rabbit and Mr. Dog went away arm in arm, singing Mr. Rabbit's poem to
+the moon; while the 'Coon and 'Possum and the Old Black Crow went to bed
+happy because they had followed Spring clear around the world, and
+hadn't got lost or tumbled off into the sky, but were home again safe
+and sound in the Hollow Tree.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+Repeated chapter titles were deleted.
+
+
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