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    The Tale of Benny Badger
    The Tale of Benny Badger
    The Tale of Benny Badger
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    The Tale of Benny Badger

    By Harry L. Smith and Arthur Scott Bailey

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013

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      The Tale of Benny Badger - Harry L. Smith

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      Title: The Tale of Benny Badger

      Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

      Illustrator: Harry L. Smith

      Release Date: February 13, 2008 [EBook #24589]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF BENNY BADGER ***

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      THE TALE OF

      BENNY BADGER

      SLEEPY-TIME TALES

      (Trademark Registered)

      BY

      ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

      AUTHOR OF

      TUCK-ME-IN TALES

      (Trademark Registered)

      ———————

      Benny doesn't like Mr. Coyote's singing.

      SLEEPY-TIME TALES

      (Trademark Registered)

      THE TALE OF

      BENNY

      BADGER

      BY

      ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

      Author of

      TUCK-ME-IN TALES

      (Trademark Registered)

      ILLUSTRATED BY

      HARRY L. SMITH

      NEW YORK

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      PUBLISHERS

      Made in the United States of America

      Copyright, 1919, by

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      CONTENTS

      THE TALE OF

      BENNY BADGER

      I

      A GREAT DIGGER

      Of course, Benny Badger had the best of reasons for living on the high, dry plains. There he had for neighbors plenty of ground squirrels and prairie dogs. And it is likely that he enjoyed their company much more than they did his.

      If anyone had asked them, those little wild people would no doubt have confessed that they wished Benny Badger was somewhere else. But their wishes meant nothing to Benny—if he knew anything of them. Although he couldn't help noticing that his small neighbors hurried into their homes whenever they caught sight of him, Benny never took the hint and went away. On the contrary, when he spied a prairie dog or a ground squirrel disappearing into his burrow Benny was more than ready to go right in after him.

      Now, the tunnels that led to the houses of those smaller folk were too small to admit anybody as bulky as Benny Badger. But that difficulty never hindered Benny. Digging was the easiest thing he did. He had a powerful body, short, stout legs, and big feet, which bore long, strong claws. And when he started to dig his way into somebody else's home he certainly did make the dirt fly.

      He was so fond of digging that he even dug countless holes of his own, just for the fun it gave him—so far as anybody could find out. And if he had only left other folk's holes alone some of his neighbors would not have objected to his favorite sport. For more than one fox and coyote had been known to make his home in a hole dug by Benny Badger. And, though they never took the trouble to thank him for saving them work, they often chuckled about his odd way of having fun, and remarked among themselves that Benny must be a stupid fellow.

      If they really thought that, they made a great mistake. To be sure, at anything except digging he was slow and awkward. He was too heavy and squat to be spry on his feet—to chase and catch his more nimble neighbors. But no one that knew much about Benny Badger would have said that his wits were dull. They were sharp. And so, too, were his teeth, which he never hesitated to use in a fight.

      Left alone, Benny Badger—when he wasn't too hungry—was a peaceable person. But if a dog ever tried to worry him Benny had a most unpleasant way of seizing his annoyer with his powerful jaws and holding the poor creature as if he never intended to let

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