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  DOCTOR RABBIT
  AND KI-YI COYOTE

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  _THE GREENWOODS SERIES_


  DOCTOR RABBIT

  _AND_

  KI-YI COYOTE


  _By_

  THOMAS CLARK HINKLE


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  RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
  CHICAGO




  _Copyright, 1918_
  By RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY

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  _To_
  Todu and Woddy Boy

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THE CONTENTS


                                                        PAGE

  DOCTOR RABBIT GETS A CALL                                1

  IN FEAR OF KI-YI COYOTE                                  8

  THE HOLES UNDER THE TREES                               13

  DOCTORING BILLY RABBIT                                  17

  KI-YI COYOTE CHASES DOCTOR RABBIT                       21

  DOCTOR RABBIT GETS A SCARE                              27

  DOCTOR RABBIT AND JACK RABBIT ESCAPE                    32

  KI-YI COYOTE WATCHES FOR DOCTOR RABBIT                  38

  DOCTOR RABBIT CALLS ON CHATTY SQUIRREL                  44

  FOOLING KI-YI COYOTE                                    49

  KI-YI COYOTE CHASES DOCTOR RABBIT                       53

  DOCTOR RABBIT HAS A SCHEME                              59

  THE LITTLE CREATURES OF THE WOODS ARE EXCITED           64

  DOCTOR RABBIT TALKS WITH BIG DOG YAPPY                  70

  DOCTOR RABBIT TALKS WITH JACK RABBIT                    77

  OLD UNCLE OWL GIVES GOOD ADVICE                         83

  YAPPY CHASES KI-YI COYOTE                               89

  KI-YI COYOTE’S STRANGE HIDING PLACE                     95

  CATCHING KI-YI COYOTE                                  100

  THE LITTLE CREATURES OF THE WOODS ARE HAPPY AGAIN      103




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THE ILLUSTRATIONS


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  “Suppose Mr. Coyote should get after me!”                            1

  “Good day, Mr. Coyote, I have to be going!”                         28

  “Sakes alive!” Mr. Squirrel exclaimed. “How did you find out?”      46

  Dr. Rabbit... was certainly tickled about something                60

  Mr. Jack Rabbit began to dance a little jig of joy                  80

  He ran straight for Mr. Farmer’s corn-crib                          96

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[Illustration: “Suppose Mr. Coyote should get after me!”]




DOCTOR RABBIT

AND

KI-YI COYOTE




DOCTOR RABBIT GETS A CALL


Doctor Rabbit lived in the very biggest tree in the Big Green Woods. He
looked after all the other rabbits when they were ill and he doctored
quite a number of the other little creatures of the Big Woods too, when
they did not feel well. He was so jolly and cheerful, always trying so
hard to help others, that he had a great many friends.

Doctor Rabbit said when he came to live in the Big Green Woods he
didn’t have the least idea that he would have so many adventures.
“But then,” he said one day as he curled his mustache, “it’s a good
thing I have so many adventures. They make me take plenty of exercise,
and that’s fine for my constitution.” What he meant by this was that
exercise kept him in good health.

I said Doctor Rabbit looked after some of the other creatures when they
were ill. But there were some he did not dare go near. Well, I should
say not! For instance, there was Ki-yi Coyote, who lived out on the
Wide Prairie just outside the Big Green Woods. No, Doctor Rabbit never
went near Ki-yi Coyote. And if old Ki-yi had been ill and if all his
relatives had been so ill they never again would be able to get out of
bed, Doctor Rabbit would not have cared at all. No indeed, he would
have been glad of it, because Ki-yi Coyote and all his relatives, who
lived far away, were ready any time to gobble up Doctor Rabbit.

Now, one fine morning in spring Doctor Rabbit began to have trouble
with Ki-yi. On this morning Doctor Rabbit arose from his bed very early
and prepared a fine breakfast for himself. He cooked some nice new
potatoes and green peas he had found in Farmer Roe’s garden. After he
had eaten his breakfast he had to wash the dishes because there wasn’t