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were doing, but from their actions it seemed to me 

 as if they were planting something. If you will go 

 down along the road where Prairie Rose and Sumac 

 are, you will see where they were at work, but as 

 I was not interested I didn't pay much attention to 

 them," Bobby concluded wearily, for he was more 

 interested in continuing his nap. 



"Guess I will slip over and see just what they were 

 doing," said Jack, as he ran down the tree. 



Soon he was on his way along the road where 

 Bobby Coon told him to go. Without much trouble 

 he found the fresh spade marks, and with his two 

 stout front paws he soon uncovered a nice, juicy 

 crocus bulb. He had never seen one before, but as 

 he took a bite of it he declared it to be the finest 

 thing imaginable, so he began to dig for more, and 

 at every place that had been freshly dug, Jack 

 found from one to three crocus' bulbs. He ate all 

 he could hold, and then carried quite a lot of them to 

 his storehouse in the big elm. 



As he was making his last trip back to the crocus 

 planting, he chanced to go near one of the. flower beds 

 and, noticing.some freshly dug places, decided to con- 

 tinue his investigations. So again he dug down deep 

 and found some very large juicy bulbs, much larger 

 than the crocus, which he took great delight in eat- 



