LONGTOE, THE GYPSY ROBIN 
I 
NE night little Billy dreamed that some 
t.) awiul creature was about to get him. 
As it came on it flapped its arms and 
claws against its sides making a noise like a boy 
slapping the front of his raincoat. The noise 
grew so loud that Billy awoke. He was too big 
to ery, but he was not too big to jump up and 
go pattering down the hall to his father’s room 
and crawl into bed with him. 
*“You can just march back to your own bed,” 
said his father. “I can’t sleep with you in here.”’ 
So the littlhe man went slowly down the hall 
again, but quickly came running back to his 
father crying out that there was something alive 
in his room. Then the father came and turned 
on the light to see what was there. To the 
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