E-text prepared by Janet Blenkinship, Brian Sogard, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 17250-h.htm or 17250-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/2/5/17250/17250-h/17250-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/2/5/17250/17250-h.zip) MOTHER WEST WIND "WHERE" STORIES by THORNTON W. BURGESS Illustrations by Harrison Cady [Illustration: "Then there was a crash, and everybody's eyes flew open." FRONTISPIECE. _See Page 243._] Burgess Trade Quaddies Mark Grosset & Dunlap Publishers New York By arrangement with Little, Brown, and Company Copyright, 1918, by Thornton W. Burgess. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. WHERE GRANDFATHER FROG GOT HIS BIG MOUTH 1 II. WHERE MISER THE TRADE RAT FIRST SET UP SHOP 17 III. WHERE YAP-YAP THE PRAIRIE DOG USED HIS WITS 31 IV. WHERE YELLOW-WING GOT HIS LIKING FOR THE GROUND 47 V. WHERE LITTLE CHIEF LEARNED TO MAKE HAY 61 VI. WHERE GLUTTON THE WOLVERINE GOT HIS NAME 77 VII. WHERE OLD MRS. 'GATOR MADE THE FIRST INCUBATOR 91 VIII. WHERE MR. QUACK GOT HIS WEBBED FEET 107 IX. WHERE THUNDERFOOT THE BISON GOT HIS HUMP 123 X. WHERE LIMBERHEELS GOT HIS LONG TAIL 139 XI. WHERE OLD MR. GOBBLER GOT THE STRUTTING HABIT 155 XII. WHERE SEEK-SEEK GOT HIS PRETTY COAT 169 XIII. WHERE OLD MR. OSPREY LEARNED TO FISH 185 XIV. WHERE OLD MR. BOB-CAT LEFT HIS HONOR 199 XV. WHERE DIPPY THE LOON GOT THE NAME OF BEING CRAZY 213 XVI. WHERE BIG-HORN GOT HIS CURVED HORNS 229 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE "THEN THERE WAS A CRASH, AND EVERYBODY'S EYES FLEW OPEN" _FRONTISPIECE_ "LITTLE CHIEF'S FATHER TAUGHT HIM HOW TO MAKE HAY" 74 PETER NOTICED THOSE FEET THE FIRST TIME HE MET MR. AND MRS. QUACK 122