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Title: The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk

Author: Thornton W. Burgess

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A Bedtime Story-Book

THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMY SKUNK

by

THORNTON W. BURGESS

Illustrations by Harrison Cady

[Illustration]

Little, Brown and Company
Boston Toronto

Copyright 1918 by Thornton W. Burgess;
Copyright renewed 1946 by Thornton W. Burgess
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form
or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage
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except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.
Republished in 1987
Printed and Bound in Canada

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I Peter Rabbit Plans a Joke 1
II Peter Makes a Flying Jump 7
III What Happened at the Old Barrel 12
IV Jimmy Skunk is Very Mad Indeed 17
V Reddy Fox Sneaks Away 23
VI Peter Rabbit Doesn't Enjoy His Joke 28
VII Sammy Jay Does Some Guessing 33
VIII Jimmy Skunk Looks for Peter 39
IX Jimmy Visits Johnny Chuck's Old House 44
X Peter Rabbit is Most Uncomfortable 50
XI Jimmy Skunk Keeps His Word