A Book of Nimble Beasts: Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and "Those Sort of People" — John Shaqi
A Book of Nimble Beasts: Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and "Those Sort of People"English, Douglas
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A Book of Nimble Beasts: Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and "Those Sort of People"
English, Douglas
Animals -- Juvenile literature
SOMETHING ABOUT A CHAMÆLEON
You can see his eye looking back over his shoulder 263
You can see his hands and feet 264
The Chamæleon 267
THE TRAIL OF NIMBLE BEASTS
Nuts Gnawed by Mice 269
The Weasel's Trail 271
Where the Weasel met the Mice 272
Where the Weasel met the Rook 274
Two Mouse Trails 275
The Fox's Footprints 276
THE GREAT GREEN GRASSHOPPER'S BAND
She Never went to Sleep at all 281
The Cricket was Sitting on the Hearthstone 283
The pair of them dropped 284
"I beg your pardon," said the Grasshopper's Wife 288
The Mole Cricket 291
The Field Cricket 292
The Wood Cricket 293
The First Note sent the Grasshopper's Wife's hind legs
straight up 295
He had backed out of his hole 296
The Grasshopper's Wife reared herself up 297
THE PYGMY SHREW
The Woodmouse First 303
He took the Right-hand Surface run 305
He could now see and hear as well 306
His rival feinting, flicked his tail 308
The Grey Shrew Leant against the Trunk 309
With Tangled Tails and Rounded Straining Bodies 310
There they lay head to tail 311
The Field Voles 312
The Bat came to a halt and stared 313
The Pygmy climbed two inches up 314
Now one was on his back, now the other 315
The Mole plunged into the air 317
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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