LEEPY-TIME TALES"
(Trademark Registered)

AND

"TUCK-ME-IN TALES"
(Trademark Registered)

ILLUSTRATED BY
HARRY L. SMITH

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
Made in the United States of America

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
GROSSET & DUNLAP

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I JOHNNIE GREEN'S FAVORITE 1

II WHY JOHNNIE HURRIED 6

III WORKING FOR A PRIZE 11

IV OWNING A BOY 16

V THE FRIENDLY SCARECROW 21

VI BUFFALO HUNTS 26

VII A LITTLE SURPRISE 31

VIII IT WAS A BEAR 35

IX WEARING A POKE 39

X A SLIGHT MISTAKE 45

XI THE UNRULY MULEY 50

XII THE COWBIRDS 55

XIII TRUTH WILL OUT 59

XIV THE MUSKRATS' WARNING 65

XV CARRYING A MESSAGE 70

XVI CLOVER TOPS 75

XVII NO HELP FROM SPOT 80

XVIII ONE APPLE TOO MANY 84

XIX A QUESTION OF LUCK 88

XX GOOD CORN WASTED 92

XXI A BRAVE DEED 97

XXII TRYING TO BE FIERCE 101

XXIII THE VOW OF A COW 106

XXIV HUMBUGS 110

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

"I HOPE YOU WON'T MIND," SAID THE MULEY COW _Frontispiece_

THE MULEY COW EXPLAINS WHAT A POKE IS 49

THE MULEY COW TRIES TO STOP BILL WOODCHUCK 80

THE MULEY COW UPSETS JACK O'LANTERN 96

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