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    The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum
    The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum
    The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum
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    The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum

    By Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess and Harrison Cady

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum - Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum, by Thornton W. Burgess, Illustrated by Harrison Cady

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      Title: The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum

      Author: Thornton W. Burgess

      Release Date: January 19, 2005 [eBook #14732]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF UNC' BILLY POSSUM***

      E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Richard J. Shiffer,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      The Bedtime Story-Books

      THE ADVENTURES OF UNC' BILLY POSSUM

      by

      THORNTON W. BURGESS

      Author of The Adventures of Peter Cottontail, Old Mother West Wind, etc.

      With Illustrations by HARRISON CADY

      Boston

      Little, Brown, and Company

      1920

      Reddy Fox sprang up as if some one had stuck a pin into him.

      FRONTISPIECE.

      Table of Contents

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      REDDY FOX SPRANG UP AS IF SOME ONE HAD STUCK A PIN INTO HIM

      MY! MY! MY! SUCH A RUMPUS AS THERE WAS RIGHT AWAY IN THAT HOLLOW TREE!

      WHAT DO YOU MEAN? EXCLAIMED THE OTHERS ALL TOGETHER

      HE JUST ATE AND ATE AND ATE UNTIL HE COULDN'T EAT ANOTHER ONE

      THERE ALL THE WAY FROM FARMER BROWN'S HEN-HOUSE, WAS A BROAD TRAIL IN THE SMOOTH WHITE SNOW

      YO' TELL UNC' BILLY POSSUM THAT AH DON' CARE IF HE NEVER COMES BACK

      THE ADVENTURES OF UNC' BILLY POSSUM

      I

      UNC' BILLY POSSUM IS CAUGHT

      THE Green Meadows were thrown into great excitement late one afternoon, just as the black shadows came creeping down from the Purple Hills. Reddy Fox brought the news, and when he told it he grinned as if he enjoyed it and was glad of it.

      Old Billy Possum is dead. I know it because I saw Farmer Brown's boy carrying him home by the tail, said Reddy. So you see he wasn't so smart as you thought he was, he added maliciously.

      No one really believed Reddy Fox, for every one knows that he seldom tells the truth, but when Jimmy Skunk came mournfully down the Crooked Little Path and said that it was true, they had to believe it. Then everybody began to talk about Unc' Billy and say nice things about him and tell how much they had enjoyed having him live in the Green Forest since he came up from Ol' Virginny. That is, everybody but Reddy Fox said so. Reddy said that it served Unc' Billy right, because he was of no account, anyway. Then everybody began to hoot and hiss at Reddy until he was glad enough to slink away.

      And while they were all saying such nice things about him, Unc' Billy Possum was having an exciting adventure. For once he had been too bold. He had gone up to Farmer Brown's hen-house before dark. Jimmy Skunk had tried to stop him, but he had heeded Jimmy Skunk not at all. He had said that he was hungry and wanted an egg, and he couldn't wait till dark to get it. So off he had started, for Unc' Billy Possum is very headstrong and obstinate.

      He had reached the hen-house and slipped inside without being seen. The nests were full of eggs, and soon Unc' Billy was enjoying his feast so that he forgot to keep watch. Suddenly the door opened, and in stepped Farmer Brown's boy to get some eggs for supper. There was no time to run. Unc' Billy just dropped right down in his tracks as if he were dead.

      When Farmer Brown's boy saw him, he didn't know what to make of him, for he had never seen Unc' Billy before.

      Well, well, I wonder what happened to this fellow, said Farmer Brown's boy, turning Unc' Billy over with the toe of one foot. He certainly is dead enough, whatever killed him. I wonder what he was doing in here.

      Then he saw some egg on Unc' Billy's lips. Ho! ho! shouted Farmer Brown's boy. So you are the thief who has been getting my eggs! And picking up Unc' Billy by the tail, he started with him

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