Mr. Coon took charge of all the things brought as tribute to old King Bear and of course where there were so many goodies left he got all he wanted without working . `` So just as old King Bear had grown fat and lazy and selfish , Mr. Coon grew fat and lazy and selfish . Pretty soon he began to pick out the best things for himself and hide them before old King Bear saw them . When old King Bear was asleep he would go get them and stuff himself like a greedy pig . And because he was stealing and wanted no one to see him he always ate his stolen feasts at night . `` Now old Mother Nature is , as you all know , very , very wise , oh very wise indeed . One of the first laws she made when the world was young is that every living thing shall work for what it has , and the harder it works the stronger it shall grow . So when Old Mother Nature saw how fat and lazy and selfish old King Bear was getting and how fat and lazy and dishonest his cousin , Mr. Coon , was becoming , she determined that they should be taught a lesson which they would remember for ever and ever and ever . `` First she proclaimed that old King Bear should be king no longer , and no more need the little folks of the Green Forest and the little people of the Green Meadows bring him tribute . `` Now when old Mother Nature made this proclamation old King Bear was fast asleep . It was just on the edge of winter and he had picked out a nice warm cave with a great pile of leaves for a bed . Old Mother Nature peeped in at him . He was snoring and probably dreaming of more good things to eat . ` If he is to be king no longer , there is no use in waking him now , ' said old Mother Nature to herself , ` he is so fat and so stupid . He shall sleep until gentle Sister South Wind comes in the spring to kiss away the snow and ice . Then he shall waken with a lean stomach and a great appetite and there shall be none to feed him . ' `` Now old Mother Nature always has a warm heart and she was very fond of Bobby Coon 's grandfather a thousand times removed . So when she saw what a selfish glutton and thief he had become she decided to put him to sleep just as she had old King Bear . But first she would teach Mr. Coon that stolen food is not the sweetest . `` So old Mother Nature found some tender , juicy corn just in the milk which Mr. Coon had stolen from old King Bear .
Then she went down on the Green Meadows where the wild mustard grows and gathering a lot of this she rubbed the juice into the corn and then put it back where Mr. Coon had XXXXX it .
Coon Forest Green Nature Sister first glutton left night stealing