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Comet's inaiiger, and when Rod arrived in the morning 

 he found the trotter standing in a pond of oats, having 

 eaten so much that he had to take a dose of medicine 

 and have his stomach rubbed with a broom handle to 

 cure his colic. For the stomach of a horse is so built 

 that when colic once gets inside it is very difficult to 

 get it out again. 



Another evening Billy escaped nnnoticed, before Rod 

 closed the barn, and went into the house cellar. There 

 he feasted and revelled all night, only to frighten 

 Mammy Bun nearly out of her Avits, when she went 

 down to get the potatoes to bake for breakfast, by am- 

 bling out at her, dripping witli molasses from the jug 

 which he had overturned. This particular evening he 

 had engaged in a slight difference of opinion with 

 Quick over a plate of scraps, and so kept prudently 

 upon the camp rafters, while Quick and Mr. Wolf 

 eyed him in a way that meant trouble for his ring- 

 tailed Fursliip. 



***** 



''Won't you please clioose the three Cats with no 

 bodies?"' said Dodo to Olive, Avhose turn it was to 

 select the picture for the story. 



" I Avas thinking of choosing the Cats," replied Olive. 

 " There are a couple more pictures beside those. Ah, 

 here they are ! The spotted Ocelot, lying in wait in a 

 tree, and the Puma, hunting Elk." 



" There is another a little further over," said Rap, 

 " a lean, weaselly-looking beast with a tliick tail. It is 

 called Civet Cat, thouofh it has a Fox face and a Coon 

 tail." 



" Y on may take out the pictures with the others. 



