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Title: How Mr. Rabbit Lost his Tail

Author: Albert Bigelow Paine

Illustrator: J. M. Conde

Release Date: February 27, 2009 [EBook #28204]

Language: English

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[Illustration: [See page 94

SET UP HIS EARS AND WENT BY, LICKETY SPLIT]

HOW MR. RABBIT LOST HIS TAIL

[Illustration: HOLLOW TREE STORIES

BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE

ILLUSTRATED BY J. M. CONDE]

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

HOLLOW TREE STORIES

BY

ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE

HOW MR. DOG GOT EVEN
HOW MR. RABBIT LOST HIS TAIL
MR. RABBIT'S BIG DINNER
MR. TURTLE'S FLYING ADVENTURE
MAKING UP WITH MR. DOG
MR. POSSUM'S GREAT BALLOON TRIP
WHEN JACK RABBIT WAS A LITTLE BOY
MR. CROW AND THE WHITEWASH
MR. RABBIT'S WEDDING

HOLLOW TREE AND DEEP WOODS BOOK
HOLLOW TREE SNOWED-IN BOOK
HOLLOW TREE NIGHTS AND DAYS

HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK

Copyright, 1901, by ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL

Copyright, 1910, by HARPER & BROTHERS

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

PAGE
MR. DOG PLAYS SANTA CLAUS 3
MR. DOG AT THE CIRCUS 23
WHEN MR. 'COON WAS A LITTLE BOY 45
HOW MR. RABBIT LOST HIS TAIL 67
HOW THE OTHER RABBITS LOST THEIR TAILS 87

[Illustration: MAP OF THE HOLLOW TREE AND DEEP WOODS COUNTRY]

EXPLANATION OF MAP

THE top of the map is South. This is always so with the Hollow Tree
People. The cross on the shelf below the edge of the world (where the
ladder is) is where Mr. Dog landed, and the ladder is t