Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the more than 200 original illustrations. See 55097-h.htm or 55097-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55097/55097-h/55097-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55097/55097-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/bookofnimblebeas00engliala Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capitals have been replaced by full capitals. Text in bold face is not designated as such. A BOOK OF NIMBLE BEASTS [Illustration: He held himself with an air, his body arched, one broad white pad uplifted, his tail curved decorously.--IN WEASEL WOOD.] A BOOK OF NIMBLE BEASTS Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and "Those Sort of People" by DOUGLAS ENGLISH Fellow and Medalist of the Royal Photographic Society With Over 200 Illustrations from Photographs of Living Animals Taken by the Author London Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Ltd. 148 Strand 1922 Printed by Woods & Sons, Ltd., 338-340, Upper Street, London, N. 1. IN MEMORY C. J. E. [Illustration] CONTENTS PAGE _JANUARY_ SOMETHING ABOUT BATS 17 _FEBRUARY_ SOMETHING ABOUT TADPOLES 29 _VALENTINE'S DAY_ A FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING GO 41 _MARCH_ ANIMALS' NESTS 75 _APRIL_ SOMETHING ABOUT BEETLES 89 _LADY DAY_ BUNNY RABBIT 101 _MAY_ A BUTTERFLY PAINT-BOX 117 _JUNE_ TWO WONDERFUL WASPS 127 _MIDSUMMER DAY_ SPINIPES THE SAND-WASP 143 _JULY_ PICTURES ON BUTTERFLIES' WINGS 171 _AUGUST_ A VERY WEE BEASTIE AND A VERY BIG ONE 179 _LAMMAS DAY_ IN WEASEL WOOD 187 _SEPTEMBER_ SHEEP IN WOLVES' CLOTHING AND WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING 213 _OCTOBER_ THE BEASTIES' BED-TIME 227 _MICHAELMAS DAY_ THE BLUNDERS OF BARTIMÆUS 237 _NOVEMBER_ SOMETHING ABOUT A CHAMÆLEON 261 _DECEMBER_ THE TRAIL OF NIMBLE BEASTS 269 _CHRISTMAS DAY_ THE GREAT GREEN GRASSHOPPER'S BAND 279 _BOXING-DAY_ THE PYGMY SHREW 301 ILLUSTRATIONS