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Title: Mother West Wind's Children

Author: Thornton W. Burgess

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MOTHER WEST WIND'S CHILDREN

by

THORNTON W. BURGESS

Author of "Old Mother West Wind"

Illustrated by George Kerr

[Frontispiece: "Yap-yap-yap," barked Reddy Fox, as loud as he could.]

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers
New York
By arrangement with Little, Brown and Company

Copyright, 1911,
by Thornton W. Burgess.
All rights reserved

TO

ALL THE LITTLE FRIENDS

OF

JOHNNY CHUCK AND REDDY FOX,

AND TO

ALL WHO LOVE THE GREEN MEADOWS

AND THE SMILING POOL,

THE LAUGHING BROOK AND THE MERRY LITTLE BREEZES,

THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. DANNY MEADOW MOUSE LEARNS WHY HIS TAIL IS SHORT
II. WHY REDDY FOX HAS NO FRIENDS
III. WHY PETER RABBIT'S EARS ARE LONG
IV. REDDY FOX DISOBEYS
V. STRIPED CHIPMUNK'S POCKETS
VI. REDDY FOX, THE BOASTER
VII. JOHNNY CHUCK'S SECRET
VIII. JOHNNY CHUCK'S GREAT FIGHT
IX. MR. TOAD'S OLD SUIT
X. GRANDFATHER FROG GETS EVEN
XI. THE DISAPPOINTED BUSH
XII. WHY BOBBY COON WASHES HIS FOOD
XIII. THE MERRY LITTLE BREEZES HAVE A BUSY DAY
XIV. WHY HOOTY THE OWL DOES NOT PLAY ON THE GREEN MEADOWS
XV. DANNY MEADOW MOUSE LEARNS TO LAUGH

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"YAP-YAP-YAP," BARKED REDDY FOX, AS LOUD
AS HE COULD . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

MR. RABBIT HAD A GREAT DEAL OF CURIOSITY,
A VERY GREAT DEAL, INDEED

THEN EVERY