A MISCHIEVOUS NEIGHBOR. 



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The Coon's paw. 



weasel. There are some spots of red on the clover 

 beside a tiny hole in the meadow grass ; here was the 

 home of a field mouse who was cap- 

 tured last night, perhaps by a coon. 

 There is the daintiest kind of a foot- 

 print in the soft earth near by ; it is 

 like a miniature hand pressed lightly 

 on the ground ; whose is it ? Look 

 at a coon's fore paw and the ques- 

 tion is answered. 

 In the coon we have another animal which, like the 

 cat, loves to be out by 

 the light of the moon. 

 If we desire to meet 

 this nocturnal prowl- 

 er, we must prowl 

 also up to a late hour 

 at night. Of course it 

 will be good luck if we 

 catch a single glimpse 

 of him after prowling 

 about through out- 

 rageously late hours 

 during every night 

 throughout the sum- 

 mer ! Notwithstanding we see evidences of his pres- 

 ence in the vicinity, he does not appear ; but set a 



The moonlight prowler. 



