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Title: Mother West Wind "How" Stories
Author: Thornton W. Burgess
Illustrator: Harrison Cady
Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21286]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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BURGESS TRADE QUADDIES MARK
MOTHER WEST WIND "HOW" STORIES
BY
THORNTON W. BURGESS
_Illustrations by HARRISON CADY_
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
_By arrangement with Little, Brown, and Company_
_Copyright, 1916_,
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS.
_All rights reserved_
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To the cause of conservation of wild life and to increase of love for
our little friends of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows through
awakened interest in them and a better understanding of their value to
us as faithful workers in carrying out the plans of wise Old Mother
Nature, this little book is dedicated.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. HOW OLD KING EAGLE WON HIS WHITE HEAD 3
II. HOW OLD MR. MINK TAUGHT HIMSELF TO SWIM 17
III. HOW OLD MR. TOAD LEARNED TO SING 31
IV. HOW OLD MR. CROW LOST HIS DOUBLE TONGUE 45
V. HOW HOWLER THE WOLF GOT HIS NAME 59
VI. HOW OLD MR. SQUIRREL BECAME THRIFTY 73
VII. HOW LIGHTFOOT THE DEER LEARNED TO JUMP 87
VIII. HOW MR. FLYING SQUIRREL ALMOST GOT WINGS 103
IX. HOW MR
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