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I A Great Digger[1]
II Hunting for Something[7]
III No One at Home[12]
IV Mr. Coyote Sings[17]
V Speaking of Ground Squirrels[23]
VI Strange Partners[28]
VII Mr. Coyote Remembers[32]
VIII A Watcher and a Worker[37]
IX A Careless Helper[42]
X The Sore Paw[47]
XI Birds' Eggs[51]
XII The Prairie Chicken[56]
XIII Don't Do That[62]
XIV A Queer Discovery[67]
XV Benny and the Owl[72]
XVI Spoiling a Game[76]
XVII The Prairie Dog Village[81]
XVIII Saving the Day[86]
XIX Pleasant Praise[90]
XX The Rancher Is Angry[94]
XXI The New Home[99]
XXII A Breakfast Invitation[105]
XXIII Mr. Deer Mouse Is Timid[109]

THE TALE OF
BENNY BADGER

I

A GREAT DIGGER

Of course, Benny Badger had the best of reasons for living on the high, dry plains. There he had for neighbors plenty of ground squirrels and prairie dogs. And it is likely that he enjoyed their company much more than they did his.

If anyone had asked them, those little wild people would no doubt have confessed that they wished Benny Badger was somewhere else. But their wishes meant nothing to Benny—if he knew anything of them. Although he couldn't help noticing that his small neighbors hurried into their homes whenever they caught sight of him, Benny never took the hint and went away. On the contrary, when he spied a prairie dog or a ground squirrel disappearing into his burrow Benny was more than ready to go right in after him.