El Dorado Daily News

All the Green Woods people were dressed up in their Sunday best at Mister Coon's party.

It was a most fashionable party, and Nancy and Nick and the little fairyman were proud of the coon gentleman and his new radio set.

Oh, yes, it was Mister Coon's new radio set that the party was about. Everybody had come to hear a concert.

"Ladies and gentlemen," said Mister Coon importantly, getting up in the middle of the floor where a little square box with a big horn was sitting on a table. "I will now tune in. We shall hear a concert that is going on in New York."

Everybody clapped and Mister Coon bowed and then he pushed in some knobs and pulled out some knobs and turned a thingamajig.

Wheeee! Whirrrr! -Squeeee-eee-eec-rattle-rattle-rattle! went the big horn, or rather, they were the sounds that came out of it.

"My!" said Mrs. Muskrat to Mrs. Groundhog. "They do have queer voices in New York, don't they, Mrs. Groundhog?"

"It isn't just right yet," said Mister Coon. "The air isn't right."

"No, I'd say it wasn't exactly right," grinned Mister Bunny nudging Old Daddy Cracknuts. "I've heard a good many airs but none exactly like that."

Mr. Coon pulled out some more knobs and pushed in some other knobs and the little lights went blink, and suddenly there was a shriek like the 9 o'clock curfew whistle.

"Oh, oh, oh!" shrieked the Green Wood ladies, covering up their ears. "That must be Grand Opera! Such loud singing makes us deaf. Do they always sing that way in New York, Mister Coon?"

Mister Coon blushed, "There is something wrong," he explained nervously. "Sometimes it's a little hard to make it work right."

The Twins and the fairyman tried to help him fix things. "I think it's all right now," said Nick. "Try to get some other place, Mister Coon."

"I will tune in on Chicago," said Mister Coon, "and we will hear a bedtime story."

"That's better," whispered Daddy Cracknuts. "It won't split our eardrums."

So Mister Coon pulled another handle and instantly a voice came out of the horn, saying. "Once upon a time a little squeeee--squeeee-squeeee-- squeeee - roar - roar - whirrrrr-whoop-eeee!"

"My goodness!" exclaimed Grandma Fox, "I should think that would waken up all the babies this side of

"Yes, isn't it," remarked Chipmunk. "Oh, there! Listen!"

The voice in the horn "And one day he went and-bang, whang, sque shriek!" it finished with a shriek!

"My, my! I'd hate to send a child to that school," said Mrs. Groundhog.

"It's very late and we're going to be going," said Mrs. Bunny. "Good night, Mister Coon. We had a nice time at your party."

Out they went - all of the guests.

But they hadn't turned the corner when the set began to behave itself fully. The Twins and the fairyman stayed and heard ten pieces by a circus band.

To Be Continued.