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Title: On the Tree Top

Author: Clara Doty Bates

Illustrator: F.T. Merrill
Jessie Curtis

Release Date: February 6, 2008 [EBook #24530]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's Note:

Illustrations in this picture book are not individually marked.
Each color plate has a short poem written within the plate; these
are not listed in the Table of Contents. The inconsistent sequence
of "Dick Whittington" and "Puss in Boots", and the spelling of "Jack
and Jill" (or "Gill") are unchanged.]

ON THE TREE TOP

by

Clara Doty Bates And Others.

Illustrated by F. T. Merrill, Jessie Curtis,
and Other Well Known Artists.

Boston:
D. LOTHROP & COMPANY
Franklin Street, Cor. Hawley.

Copyright, 1881,
By D. Lothrop & Company.

CONTENTS.

I.
_THE GOLD SPINNER._

II.
_A FISH STORY._

III.
_PUSSY CAT'S DOINGS._

IV.
_THE THREE LITTLE KITTENS._

V.
_THE GROUND SQUIRREL._

VI.
_BABY'S TROTTING SONG._

VII.
_JOHN S. CROW._

VIII.
_SILVER LOCKS AND THE BEARS._

IX.
_JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK._

X.
_LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD._

XI.
_CINDERELLA._

XII.
_PUSS IN BOOTS._

XIII.
_DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT._

XIV.
_GOLD-LOCKS' DREAM OF PUSSIE-WILLOW._

XV.
_TONY._

XVI.
_CAMPING OUT._

XVII.
_DAME SPIDER._

XVIII.
_HICKORY DICKORY DOCK._

XIX.
_DAME FIDGET AND HER SILVER PENNY._

XX.
_FOOLISH BOBOLINK._

XXI.
_ALADDIN._

XXII.
_BLUE BEARD._

XXIII.
_THE SLEEPING PRINCESS._

XXIV.
_JACK AND GILL._

XXV.
_LITTLE BO-PEEP._

XXVI.
_HOP O'-MY-THUMB._

XXVII.
_THE BABES IN THE WOOD._

XXVIII.
_THE THREE LITTLE PIGS._

XXIX.
_GOODY TWO-SHOE