Read Dickie Deer Mouse in "In The Cornfield"

In one way, especially, Fatty Coon and Dickie Deer Mouse were alike: They were night-prowlers. When they slept it was usually broad daylight outside, and the birds except for a few odd fellows like Willie Whip-poor-will and Mr. Night Hawk were abroad, and singing, and twittering. And when most of the birds went to sleep Dickie and Fatty Coon began to feel quite wide awake.It was not strange, there...