123

X. WHERE LIMBERHEELS GOT HIS
LONG TAIL 139

XI. WHERE OLD MR. GOBBLER GOT THE
STRUTTING HABIT 155

XII. WHERE SEEK-SEEK GOT HIS
PRETTY COAT 169

XIII. WHERE OLD MR. OSPREY LEARNED
TO FISH 185

XIV. WHERE OLD MR. BOB-CAT LEFT HIS
HONOR 199

XV. WHERE DIPPY THE LOON GOT THE
NAME OF BEING CRAZY 213

XVI. WHERE BIG-HORN GOT HIS CURVED
HORNS 229

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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"THEN THERE WAS A CRASH, AND EVERYBODY'S
EYES FLEW OPEN" _FRONTISPIECE_

"LITTLE CHIEF'S FATHER TAUGHT HIM HOW
TO MAKE HAY" 74

PETER NOTICED THOSE FEET THE FIRST TIME
HE MET MR. AND MRS. QUACK 122

"DON'T CALL ME STRIPED CHIPMUNK, AND
DON'T CALL ME GOPHER!" SAID HE 170

MOTHER WEST WIND "WHERE" STORIES

I

WHERE GRANDFATHER FROG GOT HIS BIG MOUTH

Everybody knows that Grandfather Frog has a big mouth. Of course! It
wouldn't be possible to look him straight in the face and not know that
he has a big mouth. In fact, about all you see when you look Grandfather
Frog full in the face are his great big mouth and two great big goggly
eyes. He seems then to be all mouth and eyes.

Anyway, that is what Peter Rabbit says. Peter never will forget the
first time he saw Grandfather Frog. Peter was very young then. He had
run away from home to see the Great World, and in the course of his
wanderings he came to the Smiling Pool. Never before had he seen so much
water. The most water he had ever seen before was a little puddle in the
Lone Little Path. So when Peter, who was only half grown then, hopped
out on the bank of the Smiling Pool and saw it dimpling and smiling in
the sunshine, he thought it the most wonderful thing he ever had seen.
The truth is that in those days Peter was in the habit of thinking
everything he saw for the first time the most wonderful thing yet, and
as he was continually seeing new things,