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The Bedtime Story-Books

by

THORNTON W. BURGESS

Author of The Adventures of Peter Cottontail, Old Mother West Wind, etc.

With Illustrations by HARRISON CADY

Reddy Fox sprang up as if some one had stuck a pin into him. FRONTISPIECE.

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

I

UNC' BILLY POSSUM IS CAUGHT

II

REDDY FOX THINKS HE SEES A GHOST

III

UNC' BILLY POSSUM SENDS FOR HIS FAMILY

IV

BOBBY COON ENTERS THE WRONG HOUSE

V

BOBBY COON IS WAKED UP

VI

SAMMY JAY LEARNS PETER RABBIT'S SECRET

VII

FOUR LITTLE SCAMPS PLAN MISCHIEF

"What do you mean?" exclaimed the others all together.

VIII

PETER RABBIT SENDS OUT WORD

IX

MR. TOAD AND PRICKLY PORKY PUT THEIR HEADS TOGETHER

X

THE RUNAWAY CABBAGE

XI

REDDY FOX GOES HUNGRY

XII

PRICKLY PORKY MAKES HIMSELF AT HOME

XIII

UNC' BILLY POSSUM GROWS HUNGRY

XIV

OLD MRS. POSSUM GROWS WORRIED

XV

THE FOOLISHNESS OF UNC' BILLY POSSUM

XVI

WHY UNC' BILLY POSSUM DIDN'T GO HOME

He just ate and ate until he couldn't eat another one.

XVII

UNC' BILLY POSSUM LIES LOW

XVIII

UNC' BILLY POSSUM IS A PRISONER

XIX

WHAT THE SNOW DID

XX

UNC' BILLY POSSUM WISHES HE HAD SNOWSHOES

There all the way from Farmer Brown's hen-house was a broad trail in the smooth white snow.

XXI

FARMER BROWN'S BOY CHOPS DOWN A TREE

XXII

WHERE UNC' BILLY POSSUM WAS

XXIII

HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL MAKES AN UNEXPECTED CALL

XXIV

HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL HELPS UNC' BILLY POSSUM

XXV

HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL'S BRIGHT IDEA