E 197

"GOOD GRACIOUS ALIVE! IF THE HOLLOW TREE ISN'T ON
FIRE!" 203

MR. 'COON RODE DOWN ON IT LIKE A SLED 205

I WAS VERY YOUNG 211

BUT MOST OF ALL I WAS ANXIOUS TO SEE IN THAT BOX 215

A BIG YELLOW ONE JUST GRAZED MY LEFT EAR 217

I NOTICED A SCARED CHICKEN 219

TOLD WHAT A GRAND PLACE THE SKY WAS 225

THEY PILED UP THAT LADDER IN A STEADY STREAM 227

GRANDPAW WENT ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OF THE WAY UP HIS
LADDER, TO SEE 231

I ASKED MINERVA TO TELL ME IN A FEW SIMPLE WORDS
WHAT SHE HAD BEEN TALKING ABOUT AT THE MEETING 239

SHE JUST WHEELED AND GAVE ME A CLIP 241

I DIDN'T RECOGNIZE MY MOTHER-IN-LAW 243

EVERYBODY LOOKED UP AT THE TWINKLING SKY 245

I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING SO WONDERFUL AS THE WAY
SHE TELLS IT 251

MISS MYRTLE PAUSED AND WIPED HER EYES 255

SO I WENT HOME WITH MR. ROBIN 261

STOPPED TO TALK A LITTLE WITH EACH ONE 269

JACK RABBIT WOULD HAVE STAYED A BACHELOR IF SHE
HADN'T TRIPPED IN HER WEDDING-GOWN 273

"MAY YOU BE HAPPY AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, AND LONGER" 277

AND YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN COUSIN REDFIELD DANCE 281

CALLED FOR THE FEATHER BED 285

WENT OUT ON THE OPEN TRACK AND TOOK A LITTLE RUN 287

LITTLE JACK RABBIT AND BUNTY BUN

JACK RABBIT TELLS ABOUT HIS SCHOOL-DAYS,
AND WHY HE HAS ALWAYS
THOUGHT IT BEST TO LIVE ALONE

The Little Lady has been poring over a first reader, because she has
started to school now, and there are lessons almost every evening. Then
by and by she closes the book and comes over to where the Story Teller
is looking into the big open fire.

The little lady looks into the fire, too, and thinks. Then pretty soon
she climbs into the Story Teller's lap and leans back, and looks into
the fire and thinks some more.

"Did the Hollow Tree people ever go to school?" she says. "I s'pose they
did, though, or they wouldn't