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Title: Sandman's Goodnight Stories

Author: Abbie Phillips Walker

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SANDMAN'S GOODNIGHT STORIES

by

ABBIE PHILLIPS WALKER

Illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase

[Illustration: Title page art]

Harper & Brothers, Publishers

SANDMAN'S GOOD-NIGHT STORIES
Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Brothers

To My Sister

MARY P. BABCOCK

I Lovingly Dedicate

These Little Stories

CONTENTS

THE EATYOUP
THE TELL-TALE GOBLIN
DAME CRICKET'S STORY
THE PLAYROOM WEDDING
MORNING-GLORY
THE PEACOCK BUTTERFLIES
THE REVENGE OF THE GNOMES
THE LITTLE CHINA SHEPHERDESS
HOW THE BUTTERCUP GREW YELLOW
WAS IT THE FIELD FAIRY?
THE FROGS AND THE FAIRIES
JACK THE PREACHER
MR. CROW GOES AND TELLS
DISCONTENTED DEWDROP
INQUISITIVE MR. POSSUM
WHAT THE FLOWERS TOLD MARTHA
WHEN JACK FROST WAS YOUNG
THE REVENGE OF THE FIREFLIES
SALLIE HICKS'S FOREFINGER
THE RAIN ELVES
MR. FOX'S HOUSEWARMING
LITTLE PITCHER-MAN
THE WIND-FLOWER'S STORY
PUSSY WILLOW'S FURS
ORIANNA
OLD NORTH WIND
MR. FOX CUTS THE COTTONTAILS
LITTLE NEVER-UPSET

THE EATYOUP

[Illustration: The Eatyoup]

Dicky Duck was a very wise young fellow. He swam about the pond alone
long before his brothers left their mother, and such worms and bugs and
things of that sort as he found made all the other young ducks quite
green with envy.

But one day Dicky Duck almost lost his life by thinking he was so wise,
for he was swimming around the pond when he came to the woods where Mr.
Fox was