Hello friends and welcome to Sleep Tight Stories.

In this story Mr. Raccoon and Mr. Possum decide to have a party for the bachelors of the area.

But they decide not to invite Mr. Crowe because he can be so argumentative.

When the party gets going the animals get started singing and get quite loud and they wake Mr. Crowe up.

Mr. Crowe gets quite upset and decides he is going to make the party quite a bit more exciting.

Mr. Crowe goes and tells.

Mr. Raccoon and Mr. Possum lived near each other in the woods and one day they decided to give a supper on the first bright moonlit night.

It will be much easier for us to provide supper together said Mr. Raccoon because we are bachelors and we can help each other.

But the real reason was that Mr. Raccoon knew that Mr. Possum had some new spoons and all the Raccoon family loved shiny things.

He thought he might be able to slip one or two of those spoons into his pocket and never be found out.

Because there would be so many guests that Mr. Possum would not know which one to suspect when he found out.

Mr. Possum was delighted to do this as Mr. Raccoon suggested and they began making a list of guests to be invited.

Of course there was Mr. Fox and Mr. Squirrel and Jack Rabbit and Mr. Owl who were all bachelors like themselves.

So they decided they would not ask any of the married folks but call it a bachelor party.

Old James Crow who lives in a tree near me will think he should be invited to I suppose.

Said Mr. Possum but he is such a quarrelsome old fellow.

I don't want to ask him.

Oh no don't ask him said Mr. Raccoon thinking of Mr. Possum's new spoons and remembering that the Crow family were very like his own in the matter of liking bright and glittering things.

He will never know we have a party. He goes to bed at sunset you know.

Though it was decided that old James Crow was not to be invited and that only the bachelors of the wood were to be asked.

A few nights after this the moon shone brightly and over to Mr. Possum's house they all went.

Now it happened that they began to sing when they all sat down to the table that they were jolly good fellows and something about being single was a life of bliss.

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