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DUSKY dEORGE AND BIS COON. 





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lie wallvecT carefully np the 

 aiie and found three bright little 

 animals, with sharp eyes and long 

 noses. George did not know Avhat 

 they were, but he put them in his 

 basket, and Avhen he went home he 

 showed them to Mr. Wilkenson. 

 " Why, George, they are coons,'' said 

 he. They took a box from the shed, 

 filled it Avith hay, and put the coons 

 in it, out in the ba,rn. 



Then George gave them some milk 

 in a saucer, and they put in their long 

 noses and drank it like little pigs. 

 In a few days Dr. Creighton took 

 Uxo of them to amuse a little patient in 

 another town, but George kept the prettiest 

 jjlll//////:.__sz — <^i^6- He was a playful little fellow, and 



'//t ' ' seemed to enjoy everything like a child. He 



did not like strange dogs. When one came into the yard 

 he would back into a corner and spit like a cat, if he did not have 



