snap ! hippetty hop ! they went , faster than the corn pops in the corn popper . Reddy Fox , who always is suspicious , thought some one was shooting at him . Down on the ground fell the little brown shining seeds and tucked themselves into the warm earth under the warm leaves , there to stay all winter long . And when the third spring came with all its little birds and all its little flowers and the warm sunshine , every one of these little brown seeds which had tucked themselves into the warm earth , burst its little brown skin , and up into the sunshine came a little green plant , which would grow and grow and grow , and by and by become just like the little bush I am telling you about . When the little bush looked down and saw all these little green children popping out of the ground , it was very happy indeed , for it knew that it would no longer be lonely . It no longer felt bad when all the other bushes were covered with flowers , for it knew that by and by when all the other little bushes had lost all their leaves and all their flowers , then would come its turn , and it knew that for a whole year its little brown children would be held safe on its branches . Now , what do you think is the name of this little bush ? Why , it is the witch hazel . And sometime when you fall down and bump yourself hard grandma will go to the medicine closet and will bring out a bottle , and from that bottle she will pour something on that little sore place and it will make it feel better . Do you know what it is ? It is the gift of the witch hazel bush to little boys and big men to make them feel better when they are hurt . XII WHY BOBBY COON WASHES HIS FOOD Happy-Go-Lucky Bobby Coon sat on the edge of the Laughing Brook just as round , red Mr. Sun popped up from behind the Purple Hills and Old Mother West Wind turned all her Merry Little Breezes out to romp on the Green Meadows . Bobby Coon had been out all night . You see Bobby Coon is very apt to get into mischief , and because usually it is safer to get into mischief under cover of the darkness Bobby Coon prefers the night wherein to go abroad . Not that Bobby Coon is really bad ! Oh my , no ! Everybody likes Bobby Coon . But he can no more keep out of mischief than a duck can keep out of water .
So Bobby Coon sat on the edge of the Laughing XXXXX and he was very busy , very busy indeed .
Breezes Brook COON Meadows Sun Wind XII hippetty night year