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Title: Twinkle and Chubbins
Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland

Author: L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

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TWINKLE AND CHUBBINS

Their Astonishing Adventures
in Nature-Fairyland

by

LAURA BANCROFT

Illustrated by Maginal Wright Enright

Publishers
The Reilly & Britton Co.
Chicago

Copyright, 1911
by
The Reilly & Britton Co.

CONTENTS

PAGE
I Mr. Woodchuck.................9
II Bandit Jim Crow..............69
III Prarie-Dog Town.............133
IV Prince Mud-Turtle...........195
V Twinkle's Enchantment.......257
VI Sugar-Loaf Mountain.........321

List of Chapters

PAGE
I The Trap............................11
II Mr. Woodchuck Captures a Girl.......18
III Mr. Woodchuck Scolds Tinkle.........26
IV Mrs. Woodchuck and Her Family ......35
V Mr. Woodchuck Argues the Question...43
VI Twinkle is Taken to the Judge.......50
VII Twinkle is Condemned................56
VIII Twinkle Remembers...................66

Chapter I
The Trap

"THERE'S a woodchuck over on the side hill that is eating my clover," said
Twinkle's father, who was a farmer.

"Why don't you set a trap for it?" asked Twinkle's mother.

"I believe I will," answered the man.

So, when the midday dinner was over, the farmer went to the barn and got
a steel trap, and carried it over to the clover-field on the hillside.

Twinkle wanted very much to go with him, but she h