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Little White Fox and his Arctic Friends By: Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell (1878-1959) |
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[Illustration: "Such ugly, bent noses I never saw before in all my life,
either." FRONTISPIECE. See Page 21 ]
LITTLE WHITE FOX
AND HIS ARCTIC FRIENDS
BY ROY J. SNELL
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
GEORGE F. KERR
[Device]
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1916
Copyright, 1916 ,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
All rights reserved Published, September, 1916
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I. LITTLE WHITE FOX MAKES A DISCOVERY 1 II. LITTLE MISS PTARMIGAN FOOLS HIM 9 III. HE GETS HIS HEAD THUMPED 19 IV. WHEN LITTLE FOXES QUARREL 27 V. LITTLE WHITE FOX MEETS BARRED SEAL 34 VI. LITTLE WHITE FOX HELPS HIMSELF 41 VII. LITTLE WHITE BEAR AND LITTLE BLACK BEAR 48 VIII. TROUBLE FOR LITTLE WHITE BEAR 54 IX. LITTLE BLACK BEAR'S DISCOVERY 61 X. FUN FOR TWO LITTLE BEARS 67 XI. BIG WHITE BEAR MEETS HUSKIE 74 XII. LITTLE WHITE FOX GOES HUNTING 83 XIII. BIG WHITE BEAR'S KITCHEN 89 XIV. BIG WHITE BEAR FINDS LITTLE WHITE FOX 95 XV. LITTLE WHITE FOX GOES FISHING 101 XVI. LITTLE BROWN SEAL'S NARROW ESCAPE 108 XVII. A STRANGE JOURNEY 115 XVIII. LITTLE WHITE FOX COMES HOME 122
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"Such ugly, bent noses I never saw before in all
my life, either." Frontispiece "Now," he said, when he had finished fishing, "we
will have dinner." PAGE 38 Little White Bear knew right away what he had done. " 52 "I am going to make your teeth chatter so you can't
call your master." " 81 Big White Bear popped right up out of the ocean! " 119 She was going back to his own dear beach. " 128
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Six of the Little White Fox Stories appeared serially in the
Continent , to whose publishers my thanks are due for permission to
publish them in book form.
LITTLE WHITE FOX AND HIS ARCTIC FRIENDS
CHAPTER I LITTLE WHITE FOX MAKES A DISCOVERY
Little White Fox was very, very much worried, for something dreadful had
happened, something he couldn't account for at all: Tdariuk, the
reindeer, was dead! Tdariuk was not related to Little White Fox. And he wasn't a bit in the
world like him. He was many times bigger than Little White Fox would
ever be, and he was quite different from him in every way. But all the
same, Little White Fox loved him. If you had asked him why he loved the
big reindeer, he would probably have told you that, for one thing,
Tdariuk, in spite of his huge body, was very gentle and kind. None of
the little animals of the tundra was afraid of him. Little Mrs.
Ptarmigan calmly hunted for dry blueberries and weed seed right beside
him while he cropped his moss. And when he drew close to the shore by
the sea, Little Brown Seal never thought of such a thing as slipping off
his rock and hiding in the water. Even if there were no other reason,
wouldn't Tdariuk's gentleness alone make Little White Fox love him? Now when Little White Fox discovered that his big, kind friend was dead,
he ran home as fast as his legs could carry him to tell his mother the
sad news. "Mother! Mother!" he called tumbling into his home under the great rock,
"Tdariuk is dead!" "Tdariuk dead!" cried Madam White Fox. "Who could have been mean enough
to kill him?" "I don't know who killed him, but he's dead, I know that," said Little
White Fox, the tears running down his cheeks. "It must have been Old Man Gray Wolf, or Omnok, the hunter," said Madam
White Fox, wiping her eyes with her paw... Continue reading book >>
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