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Title: The Tale of Bobby Bobolink
Tuck-me-In Tales

Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

Release Date: May 9, 2007 [EBook #21412]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "You Were Mistaken," Said Mrs. Bobolink.
_Frontispiece_--(_Page_ 35)]

_SLEEPY-TIME TALES_
(Trademark Registered)

THE TALE OF
BOBBY
BOBOLINK

BY
ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

[Illustration]

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
GROSSET & DUNLAP

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I SOMEBODY IS EXPECTED 1
II THE LATEST ARRIVAL 6
III GREETINGS 11
IV SINGING FOR SOME ONE 16
V AN INVITATION 21
VI MRS. BOBOLINK CONSENTS 26
VII PASSING THE TEST 31
VIII THE HOUSE IN THE MEADOW 37
IX JOHNNIE GREEN INTRUDES 42
X FOOLING JOHNNIE GREEN 47
XI BOBBY'S NAMES 51
XII MR. CROW IS DISAGREEABLE 55
XIII MR. CATBIRD'S TRICK 60
XIV FRIGHTENING MRS. BOBOLINK 64
XV HAYING TIME 70
XVI MR. FROG IS AMUSED 75
XVII TURNING THE TABLES 81
XVIII TIMOTHY TURTLE'S COMPLAINT 86
XIX BOBBY'S MISTAKE 91
XX A HERMIT'S ADVICE 96
XXI HOW TO TAKE BAD NEWS 101
XXII A NOISY QUARREL 106
XXIII SLEEPY BENJAMIN BAT 111

THE TALE OF BOBBY BOBOLINK

I

SOMEBODY IS EXPECTED

ON May Day the feathered folk in Pleasant Valley began to stop, look and
listen. They were expecting somebody.

"Have you seen him?" Rusty Wren asked Jolly