White Cat; in the story
of "The Runaways" we come upon the old, old ruse of magic barriers
interposed between pursuer and pursued; and Andersen's charming fantasy
of "The Woodcutter's Child" who disobeyed her Guardian Angel has
scarcely a more delicate pathos than the "Ghost Wife."

There are, to be sure, certain characters in this forest wonder-world
that are purely and unmistakably Indian; yet after all Unk-to-mee, the
sly one, whose adventures are endless, may be set beside quaint "Brer
Fox" of Negro folk-lore, and Chan-o-te-dah is obviously an Indian
brownie or gnome, while monstrous E-ya and wicked Double-Face
re-incarnate the cannibal giants of our nursery days. Real children
everywhere have lively imaginations that feed upon such robust marvels
as these; and in many of us elders, I hope, enough of the child is left
to find pleasure in a literature so vital, so human in its appeal, and
one that, old as it is, has for the most part never until now put on the
self-consciousness of type.

The stories are more particularly intended to be read beside an open
fire to children of five years old and upward, or in the school-room by
the nine, ten, eleven-year-olds in the corresponding grades.

E. G. E.

CONTENTS

EVENINGS PAGE

FIRST THE BUFFALO AND THE FIELD-MOUSE 1

SECOND THE FROGS AND THE CRANE 15

THIRD THE EAGLE AND THE BEAVER 25

FOURTH THE WAR PARTY 31

FIFTH THE FALCON AND THE DUCK 39

SIXTH THE RACCOON AND THE BEE-TREE 49

SEVENTH THE BADGER AND THE BEAR 61

EIGHTH THE GOOD-LUCK TOKEN 71

NINTH UNKTOMEE AND HIS BUNDLE OF SONGS 79

TENTH UNKTOMEE AND THE ELK 89

ELEVENTH THE FESTIVAL OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE 99

TWELFTH EYA THE DEVOURER 107

THIRTEENTH THE WARS OF WA-KEE-YAN AND UNK-TAY-HEE 115

FOURTEENTH THE LITTLE BOY MAN 123

FIFTEENTH THE RETURN OF THE LITTLE BOY MAN