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Title: Woodland Tales

Author: Ernest Seton-Thompson

Release Date: November 30, 2007 [EBook #23667]

Language: English

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WOODLAND TALES

WOODLAND TALES

BY
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON

[Illustration]

WITH 100 DRAWINGS

BY

THE AUTHOR

AUTHOR OF "WILD ANIMALS AT HOME," "WILD
ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN," "TWO LITTLE SAVAGES,"
"BIOGRAPHY OF A GRIZZLY," "LIFE
HISTORIES OF NORTHERN ANIMALS," "ROLF IN
THE WOODS," "THE BOOK OF WOODCRAFT."
CHIEF OF THE WOODCRAFT LEAGUE OF AMERICA

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1922

COPYRIGHT, 1905, 1920, 1921, BY

ERNEST THOMPSON SETON

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT 1903, 1904, BY THE CENTURY COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

PREFACE

_To the Guide_

These Mother Carey Tales were written for children of all ages, who have
not outgrown the delight of a fairy tale. It might almost be said that
they were written chiefly for myself, for I not only have had the
pleasure of telling them to the little ones, and enjoying their quick
response, but have also had the greater pleasure of thinking them and
setting them down.

As I write, I look from a loved window, across a landscape that I love,
and my eye rests on a tall beautiful pine planted with my own hands
years ago. It is a mass of green fringes, with gem-like tips of buds and
baby cones, beautiful, exquisitely beautiful, whether seen from afar as
a green spire, or viewed close at hand as jewellery. It is beautiful,
fragile and--unimportant, as the world sees it; yet through