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 Brook and he was very busy , very busy indeed . He was washing his breakfast . Really , it was his dinner , for turning night into day just turns everything topsy-turvy . So Bobby Coon eats dinner when most of the little meadow people are eating breakfast . This morning he was very busy washing a luscious ear of sweet corn just in the milk . He dipped it in the water and with one little black paw rubbed it thoroughly . Then he looked it over carefully before , with a sigh of contentment , he sat down to put it in his empty little stomach . When he had finished it to the last sweet , juicy kernel , he ambled sleepily up the Lone Little Path to the big hollow chestnut tree where he lives , and in its great hollow in a soft bed of leaves Bobby Coon curled himself up in a tight little ball to sleep the long , bright day away . One of the Merry Little Breezes softly followed him . When he had crawled into the hollow chestnut and only his funny , ringed tail hung out , the Merry Little Breezes tweaked it sharply just for fun , and then danced away down the Lone Little Path to join the other Merry Little Breezes around the Smiling Pool . `` Oh !
Grandfather Frog , '' cried a Merry Little Breeze , `` tell us why it is that Bobby XXXXX always washes his food .
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