Fawcett's Funny Animals #15

Willie the Worm awakens to the noise of a midnight raider tearing into his garbage can, and after chasing off the culprit, decides to teach the troublemaker a lesson with a surprise ambush. Willie's plan takes an unexpected turn when a street cleaning truck arrives and whisks him away before he can execute his scheme.

Billy the Kid boasts he's the best all-around athlete in the territory—until a challenger named Slim calls him out to a game of follow the leader, putting fifty dollars on the line. As the two competitors take turns leading increasingly difficult stunts, Billy must prove whether his bragging has any backing.

Fuzzy Bear boasts he can handle any horse after breaking a rocking horse as a kid, so the stable owner lets him ride Bucking Betty—a spirited jumper who proves to be more than he bargained for. What follows is a hilarious clash of wills as Fuzzy discovers that talking a big game and actually staying in the saddle are two very different things.

Oscar the Sheriff thinks he's found a bargain when he shows up late to Hiram Hicks's big auction with just fifty bucks in his pocket—enough, he's certain, to snag one of the ranch's famous horses. But the auctioneer and Billy seem oddly reluctant to let him bid on the last item, a cute little pinto that's waiting under the oak tree up by the house.

Sherlock the Monk takes on a new challenge: training a dog named Cookie to carry his umbrella and resist all temptation—bones, fights, and everything else. When the monk puts his prized pupil to the ultimate test during a walk with a friend, Cookie's devotion is put to the test in unexpected ways. It's a clever lesson in obedience that proves trickier than it seems!

Billy the Kid can't sleep and tries every home remedy in the book—from hot baths to warm milk to counting sheep—with increasingly absurd results in this 1944 funny animal tale. When a simple remedy goes wildly wrong at the stock yards, Billy discovers that sometimes the cure is worse than the problem.