MR COON SHARES THE CREAM

Evening Star, Issue 22004, 13 April 1935, Page 5

MR COON SHARES THE CREAM

This story comes to us from America, where the clever little racoon is still fairly common. A farmer found that his cow was being partially milked every night, and discovered that it was done by the agile front paws of a fine male racoon. To- break the wild creature of the milk-stealing habit the farmer set down a saucer of cream for him just inside the hole in the fence where he used to go in and out. Next morning the family hid in a shed to see what would happen. Mr Coon came, discovered the cream, tasted it, began to lap it up eagerly; then he remembered his mate. He ran to the fence and apparently urged Mrs Coon to join him at his breakfast, but she was too shy to venture so near to man’s work. Mr Coon returned to the saucer and finished the fluid part of the cream, leaving the thick coating on the margin untouched. Then lie picked the dish up in his teeth, dragged it to the fence, and tried to push it through the hole. The dish was too big for the high and narrow hole. He tried several times before he was convinced that it was too large. At last Mr Coon turned the saucer on edge, and with his clever little paws bowled it like a hoop through the hole. Thus Mrs Coon had her first taste oi real cream for breakfast.