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    The Tale of the The Muley Cow Slumber-Town Tales
    The Tale of the The Muley Cow Slumber-Town Tales
    The Tale of the The Muley Cow Slumber-Town Tales
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    The Tale of the The Muley Cow Slumber-Town Tales

    By Harry L. Smith and Arthur Scott Bailey

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Tale of the The Muley Cow Slumber-Town Tales

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      The Tale of the The Muley Cow Slumber-Town Tales - Harry L. Smith

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      Title: The Tale of the The Muley Cow

      Slumber-Town Tales

      Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

      Illustrator: Harry L. Smith

      Release Date: February 8, 2008 [EBook #24545]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF THE THE MULEY COW ***

      Produced by Joe Longo, Greg Bergquist and the Online

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      SLEEPY-TIME TALES

      (Trademark Registered.)

      By ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

      AUTHOR OF THE

      TUCK-ME-IN TALES and SLUMBER-TOWN TALES

      Colored Wrapper and Text Illustrations Drawn by HARRY L. SMITH

      This series of animal stories for children from three to eight years, tells of the adventures of the four-footed creatures of our American woods and fields in an amusing way, which delights small two-footed human beings.

      THE TALE OF CUFFY BEAR

      THE TALE OF FRISKY SQUIRREL

      THE TALE OF TOMMY FOX

      THE TALE OF FATTY COON

      THE TALE OF BILLY WOODCHUCK

      THE TALE OF JIMMY RABBIT

      THE TALE OF PETER MINK

      THE TALE OF SANDY CHIPMUNK

      THE TALE OF BROWNIE BEAVER

      THE TALE OF PADDY MUSKRAT

      THE TALE OF FERDINAND FROG

      THE TALE OF DICKIE DEER MOUSE

      THE TALE OF TIMOTHY TURTLE

      THE TALE OF BENNY BADGER

      THE TALE OF MAJOR MONKEY

      THE TALE OF GRUMPY WEASEL

      THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLE

      THE TALE OF MASTER MEADOW MOUSE

      Grosset & Dunlap,     Publishers,     New York

      THE TALE OF

      THE MULEY COW

      I Hope You Won't Mind, Said the Muley Cow. Frontispiece—(Page 22)

      Copyright, 1921, by

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      CONTENTS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      THE TALE OF THE MULEY COW

      I

      JOHNNIE GREEN'S FAVORITE

      A few of the farmyard folk were a bit jealous of the Muley Cow. The little red lady that stood on one side of her, in the barn, often said that Johnnie Green was wasting too many goodies on her. It seemed as if he never entered the cow barn without bringing some tidbit for old Muley, as her neighbors called her—behind her back. If it wasn't a potato that Johnnie fished out of his pocket it might be an apple or a carrot, or maybe a piece of pumpkin, or turnip, or beet.

      At such times the little red cow would cast a knowing look at the big white person on the other side of the Muley Cow, as if to say, There! He's at it again! Did you ever, in all your life? And the big white cow would twist her head as far around as her stanchion would let her, and stretch her lean neck to the utmost, hoping for a share of the treat. She often told the little red cow, privately, that the delicious smell of such things as potatoes and apples was enough to drive anybody frantic.

      They had agreed, long before, that it was very unpleasant to be stabled beside Johnnie Green's favorite. That was what they called the Muley Cow—the Favorite (when they didn't speak of her as old Muley). But when they spoke to her they were as polite as you please, because she was the oldest cow on the farm and was an aunt to both of them.

      Whenever Johnnie Green gave some dainty morsel to the Muley Cow he first cut it into medium sized

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