COPYRIGHT, 1912
BY
FREDERICK WARNE & Co.
Copyright renewed 1940
(All rights reserved)
PRINTED AND BOUND IN THE USA
ROSE PRINTING CO INC
ISBN O 7232 0605 8
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FOR
FRANCIS WILLIAM OF ULVA
——SOMEDAY!
THE TALE OF MR. TOD
I have made many books about well-behaved people. Now, for a change, I am going to make a story about two disagreeable people, called Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod.
Nobody could call Mr. Tod "nice." The rabbits could not bear him; they could smell him half a mile off. He was of a wandering habit and he had foxey whiskers; they never knew where he would be next.
One day he was living in a stick-house in the coppice, causing terror to the family of old Mr. Benjamin Bouncer. Next day he moved into a pollard willow near the lake, frightening the wild ducks and the water rats.
In winter and early spring he might generally be found in an earth amongst the rocks at the top of Bull Banks, under Oatmeal Crag.