THORNTON W. BURGESS

Author of "Old Mother West Wind"

Illustrated by George Kerr

GROSSET & DUNLAP
Publishers
New York
By arrangement with Little, Brown and Company

Copyright, 1911,
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS.
All rights reserved

TO
ALL THE LITTLE FRIENDS
OF
JOHNNY CHUCK AND REDDY FOX,
AND TO
ALL WHO LOVE THE GREEN MEADOWS
AND THE SMILING POOL,
THE LAUGHING BROOK AND THE MERRY LITTLE BREEZES,
THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED.