ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For permission to use copyright material in this volume, acknowledgments and thanks are proffered to authors and publishers, as follows:

To Laura E. Richards, for the adaptation from her story, “The New Year”; to Dodd, Mead & Co. for “Mabel and the Green Lizard,” adapted from “The Adventures of Mabel,” by H. T. Peck; to G. P. Putnam’s Sons, of New York and London, for the selection by Judge Parry from “The Golden Staircase”; to Longmans, Green, & Co. for “The Odd Man and the Dog True”; and to John Lane Company for “Return of Spring,” by Dion Clayton Calthrop.

CONTENTS

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Bunny Rabbit [7]
The Odd Man and the Dog True [14]
The Owl and Grasshopper Green [19]
Somewhere TownKate Greenaway[21]
The Timid Hare [22]
Mabel and the Green LizardAdapted[26]
The Maiden and the BirdLydia Maria Child[32]
The Little FishAfrican Fable[35]
Belling the Cat [37]
The Fox and the Crow [40]
Hans and Gretchen [41]
Lady MoonLord Houghton[50]
Precocious PiggyThomas Hood[52]
Strange LandsLaurence Alma-Tadema[56]
How to get a Breakfast [58]
The Little Christmas TreeAdapted from an Old Story[60]
Christmas Eve in an Attic [65]
The New YearAdapted from Laura E. Richards[73]
A Friendship Declined [77]
The Selfish Man [79]
The Magpie’s Nest [83]
Adventures of the First Spring [86]
The Bird’s NestLydia Maria Child[93]
The Boastful Bamboo TreeJapanese Fable[100]
Return of Spring [105]
Who holds up the Sky?Adapted[110]
The Fox’s Plan [114]
Tom and the LobsterAdapted[117]
Why the Jellyfish has No ShellOriental Fable[119]
I would like You for a ComradeJudge Parry[132]
Southwest Wind’s Visit to GluckAdapted from John Ruskin[134]
The Child and the SparrowThomas Westwood[143]
The Rabbit’s MessageGerman Tale[145]
Laughing SanjaJapanese Folk Story[150]
The Tiger and the Brahman [159]
The Lion and the Story-teller [169]
Over the HillGeorge MacDonald[174]

BUNNY RABBIT AND THE LION

Characters—Lion, Rabbit, Mother Deer, Elephant, Camel, Jackal, other animals

Scene I—The Forest

Mother Deer. Brave Lion, give me back my little deer.