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Title: The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum

Author: Thornton W. Burgess

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Language: English

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The Bedtime Story-Books

THE ADVENTURES OF UNC' BILLY POSSUM

by

THORNTON W. BURGESS

Author of _The Adventures of Peter Cottontail_, _Old Mother West Wind_,
etc.

With Illustrations by HARRISON CADY

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company

1920

[Illustration: Reddy Fox sprang up as if some one had stuck a pin into
him. FRONTISPIECE.]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. UNC' BILLY POSSUM IS CAUGHT
II. REDDY FOX THINKS HE SEES A GHOST
III. UNC' BILLY POSSUM SENDS FOR HIS FAMILY
IV. BOBBY COON ENTERS THE WRONG HOUSE
V. BOBBY COON IS WAKED UP
VI. SAMMY JAY LEARNS PETER RABBIT'S SECRET
VII. FOUR LITTLE SCAMPS PLAN MISCHIEF
VIII. PETER RABBIT SENDS OUT WORD
IX. MR. TOAD AND PRICKLY PORKY PUT THEIR HEADS TOGETHER
X. THE RUNAWAY CABBAGE
XI. REDDY FOX GOES HUNGRY
XII. PRICKLY PORKY MAKES HIMSELF AT HOME
XIII. UNC' BILLY POSSUM GROWS HUNGRY
XIV. OLD MRS. POSSUM GROWS WORRIED
XV. THE FOOLISHNESS OF UNC' BILLY POSSUM
XVI. WHY UNC' BILLY POSSUM DIDN'T GO HOME
XVII. UNC' BILLY POSSUM LIES LOW
XVIII. UNC' BILLY POSSUM IS A PRISONER
XIX. WHAT THE SNOW DID
XX. UNC' BILLY POSSUM WISHES HE HAD SNOWSHOES
XXI. FARMER BROWN'S BOY CHOPS DOWN A TREE
XXII. WHERE UNC' BILLY POSSUM WAS
XXIII. HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL MAKES AN UNEXPECTED CALL
XXIV