. Red folk and wild folk;. WHY DUCKS HAVE SHORT TAILS AND THE COON MUST GO BAREFOOTED. 3 and started for the shore. They stopped every littlewhile to eat something floating on top of the water—perhaps a frog, some wild celery or rice—and it tookthem a long time. When they finally reached theshore they looked around. Everything seemed allright there ; so they shook the water off their backs,settled theirfeathers andthen shooktheir fine longtails. Ouack,said the lead-er. Thatsurely meant, Follow me,in their lan-guage, for allthe ducks fol-lowed, and such a quacking you never heard ! Theywere not
. Red folk and wild folk;. WHY DUCKS HAVE SHORT TAILS AND THE COON MUST GO BAREFOOTED. 3 and started for the shore. They stopped every littlewhile to eat something floating on top of the water—perhaps a frog, some wild celery or rice—and it tookthem a long time. When they finally reached theshore they looked around. Everything seemed allright there ; so they shook the water off their backs,settled theirfeathers andthen shooktheir fine longtails. Ouack,said the lead-er. Thatsurely meant, Follow me,in their lan-guage, for allthe ducks fol-lowed, and such a quacking you never heard ! Theywere not at all polite; but all talked together, eachtrying to tell first what that strange light might mean. In the mean while the big fire the coon had builtbegan to spread. It got closer and closer to the coon ;but he did not dare move, lest he should frightenthe ducks. If they will only hurry ! This fire is burningmy feet. I can stand it no longer ! and up jumpedthe coon on the rocks. Then he ran as fast as hecould 4 WHY DUCKS HAVE SHORT TAILS AND THE COON MUST GO [iAREFOOTED. Quack! cried the leader. Quack, answeredthe others, and they ran as fast as their waddhng littlelegs would carry them. The coon kept getting nearerand nearer. He could ran much faster than theducks, and he would have caught them if the fire hadnot got quite so hot. As it was he just caught theleader by his beautiful long tail. The duck was soanxious to get away that he pulled as hard as he could,and the tail came out. Since that day ducks haveshort tails. A little Indian village was not far away, and,when the boys saw this big fire on top of a hill inthe woods, they hurried out to see what it mightmean. When they reached the lake, they saw thecoon standing there with a handful of feathers, whilethe ducks and their leader who had lost his beautifultail were swimming off. How the boys did laugh !and when they looked at the coons hands and feet,they were bare. He had left the hair and skin where-ever he
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