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How Mr. Rabbit Lost his Tail Hollow Tree Stories By: Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937) |
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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. CONDÉ] 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 the one brought by
Mr. Man for him to climb back on. The tree that Mr. Man cut down shows
too. The spot on the edge of the world is where the Hollow Tree People
sometimes sit and hang their feet over, and talk. A good many paths
show, but not all by a good deal. The bridge and plank near Mr. Turtle's
house lead to the Wide Grass Lands and Big West Hills. The spots along
the Foot Race show where Grandpaw Hare stopped, and the one across the
fence shows where Mr. Turtle landed. Most of the other things tell what
they are, and all the things are a good deal farther apart than they
look. Of course there was not room on the map for everything.
MR. DOG PLAYS SANTA CLAUS A STORY TOLD WHEN IT WAS SNOWING OUTSIDE, AND THE LITTLE LADY WAS
WONDERING HOW IT WAS IN THE FAR DEEP WOODS
ONCE upon a time, said the Story Teller, the Robin, and Turtle, and
Squirrel, and Jack Rabbit had all gone home for the winter, and nobody
was left in the Hollow Tree except the 'Coon and 'Possum and the Old
Black Crow. Of course the others used to come back and visit them pretty
often, and Mr. Dog, too, now that he had got to be good friends with all
the Deep Woods People, and they thought a great deal of him when they
got to know him better. Mr. Dog told them a lot of things they had
never heard of before, things that he'd learned at Mr. Man's house, and
maybe that's one reason why they got to liking him so well. He told them about Santa Claus, for one thing, and how the old fellow
came down the chimney on Christmas Eve to bring presents to Mr. Man and
his children, who always hung up their stockings for them, and Mr. Dog
said that once he had hung up his stocking, too, and got a nice bone in
it, that was so good he had buried and dug it up again as much as six
times before spring. He said that Santa Claus always came to Mr. Man's
house, and that whenever the children hung up their stockings they were
always sure to get something in them. [Illustration: HE TOLD THEM ALL ABOUT SANTA CLAUS] Well, the Hollow Tree people had never heard of Santa Claus. They knew
about Christmas, of course, because everybody, even the cows and sheep,
know about that; but they had never heard of Santa Claus. You see, Santa
Claus only comes to Mr. Man's house, but they didn't know that,
either, so they thought if they just hung up their stockings he'd come
there, too, and that's what they made up their minds to do... Continue reading book >>
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