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Title: The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit
Sleepy-TimeTales

Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

Illustrator: Eleanor Fagan

Release Date: February 16, 2008 [EBook #24628]

Language: English

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THE TALE of JIMMY RABBIT

[Illustration: He trundled the wheelbarrow home again]

THE TALE
of
JIMMY
RABBIT

By

Arthur Scott Bailey

_Author of_

The Cuffy Bear Books
Sleepy-Time Series, Etc.

_Illustrations
by_
Eleanore Fagan

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers--New York

Copyright, 1916, by
GROSSET & DUNLAP

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I Jimmy Finds a New Tail 9
II Troublesome Mr. Mink 14
III May Baskets 19
IV Making Somebody Happy 23
V The New Wheelbarrow 28
VI A Narrow Escape 34
VII A Fast Runner 40
VIII The Great Race 46
IX Playing Leap-Frog 52
X The Tooth Puller 58
XI A Slight Dispute 63
XII The Strange Man 69
XIII Mr. Crow's Picture 74
XIV Boy Lost! 80
XV Telling Fortunes 85
XVI Red Leggins 91
XVII The Rabbits' Ball 96
XVIII A Dance Without Music 101
XIX Jimmy Grows Too Cheeky 105
XX A Queer Cure 109

_The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit_

[Illustration: 1 Jimmy Finds a New Tail]

1

Jimmy Finds a New Tail

Jimmy Rabbit wanted a new tail. To be sure, he already had a tail--but
it was so short that he felt it was little better than none at all.
Frisky Squirrel and Billy Woodchuck had fine, bushy tails; and so had
all the other forest-people, except the Rabbit family.

Jimmy had tried his hardest to get a handsome tail for himself. And once
he had nearly succeeded. For he almost cut off Frisky Squirrel's big
brush. But Mrs. Squirrel had appeared just in time to save her son from
so dreadful a mishap.

After that,