EVAPORATED APPLES

Now, evaporated apples are nothing more or less than dried apples. The
cook of the loggers' camp used them to make apple pies. And first,
before making his pies, he always soaked them in water so they would
swell.

Now you see what made Fatty Coon feel so queer and uncomfortable. He had
first eaten his dried apples. And then he had soaked them, by drinking
out of the brook. It was no wonder that his sides stuck out, for the
apples that he had bolted were swelling and puffing him out until he
felt that he should burst. In fact, the wonder of it was that he was
able to get through his mother's doorway, when he reached home.

But he did it, though it cost him a few groans. And he frightened his
mother, too.

"I only hope you're not poisoned," she said, when Fatty told her what he
had been doing.

And that remark frightened Fatty more than ever. He was sure he was
never going to feel any better.

Poor Mrs. Coon was much worried all the rest of the night. But when
morning came she knew that Fatty was out of danger. She knew it because
of something he said. It was this:

"Oh, dear! I wish I had something to eat!"