Little Jack Rabbit and Chippy Chipmunk

<h2><SPAN name="THE_YELLOW_DOG_TRAMP" id="THE_YELLOW_DOG_TRAMP"></SPAN>THE YELLOW DOG TRAMP</h2> <p>Well, after the monkey learned that the Yellow Dog Tramp wanted to go to work to help Uncle Sam and Aunt Columbia, as I mentioned in the story before this, he said:</p> <p>"You can whitewash the back fence if you want to. It may take you a week or it may take you a month, for I don't know how fast you can work."</p> <p>"Well, I'll start right in," said the Yellow Dog Tramp bravely, and he stood up on his hind legs and wagged his tail.</p> <p>"You'd better wait until to-morrow morning," said the monkey. "It's too late now, and you couldn't see in the dark."</p> <p>"I should think one could whitewash in the dark," said the tramp dog. "But just as you say," and he went over to the kitchen stove and lay down on the little rag rug and went sound asleep, for he was very tired, because he had tramped all day long.</p> <p>"Let him sleep," said the little monkey in a whisper. "He looks tired out." And after that the monkey got the supper ready and when everything was nice and hot and on the table the Yellow Dog Tramp opened his eyes and yawned and pretty soon he was wide awake enough to sit down to eat.</p> <p>Well, by and by it was time to go to bed, so they all went to sleep, and just about midnight a big owl looked in through the window and saw by the light of the silvery moon Little Jack Rabbit and the monkey sound asleep on the bed.</p> <p>"Ha, ha," said the big owl to himself, "I must get that little bunny." So he perched himself on the roof and pondered how to get inside the little house.</p> <p>Well, by and by, after he had flown around and peeked through all the windows, he looked down the chimney. And then he carefully stepped over the edge and, spreading out his wings, jumped right down to the bottom.</p> <p>But, goodness me. When he rolled from the hearth into the sitting room he looked just like a crow, he was so covered with soot, and it would have taken the Gold Dust Twins twenty-three days and one night to clean him.</p> <p>"What's that noise?" barked the Yellow Dog Tramp, and he ran in from the kitchen and looked all around. At first he didn't see the owl, for he was so black with soot, you know. But what that Yellow Dog Tramp said when he did see that bad Owl I'll tell you in the next story, unless,</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The Gold Dust Twins with a scrubbing brush<br/></span> <span class="i0">Should scour that old Sooty Owl,<br/></span> <span class="i0">All through the night until he was bright<br/></span> <span class="i0">And clean as a snow-white fowl.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />