CONTENTS
| I | Enchanter’s Nightshade | [ 1] |
| II | On the Way to Beavertown | [ 9] |
| III | The Laziest Beaver | [ 17] |
| IV | “Why Does a Rabbit Wabble His Nose?” | [ 27] |
| V | The Guinea-Pig Whose Eyes Fell Out | [ 38] |
| VI | The White Blackbird | [ 47] |
| VII | A Traveled Donkey | [ 61] |
| VIII | Old Saws in New Settings | [ 72] |
| IX | Troubles of a Bear | [ 81] |
| X | The Wee Bear’s Birthday Party | [ 91] |
| XI | A Long Dispute Ended | [ 105] |
| XII | The Flight of the Loon | [ 114] |
| XIII | “Mary’s Little Lamb” | [ 125] |
| XIV | “One From Two Leaves Four” | [ 138] |
| XV | At the Corner | [ 149] |
| XVI | A Frolic in the Forest | [ 158] |
| XVII | Doctor Goose’s Lecture | [ 170] |
| XVIII | The Well in the Wood | [ 177] |
| XIX | Disenchantment | [ 186] |
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
| And Now Vanished in the Depths of the Well | [ Frontispiece] |
| And Led the Way Into a Thicket | [ 13] |
| Which Grew Fainter and Fainter | [ 25] |
| But I’ve Caught You | [ 54] |
| They Set Off Through the Wood | [ 77] |
| I Mean I Can’t Sleep | [ 89] |
| Have You Heard “Nobody Knows”? | [ 120] |
| And Behold They Were Roses | [ 127] |
THE WELL IN THE WOOD
CHAPTER I
ENCHANTER’S NIGHTSHADE
“Colonel, you ’diculous dog, you’re so hot now you can hardly breathe. No; you needn’t bark. It’s too warm to play any more.”
Buddie was sitting on the fallen, mossy trunk of a cedar tree, just inside the edge of the wood, throwing little sticks for her dog Colonel to fetch. Being a young dog, Colonel wanted to play all day long, and he could not understand why Buddie should tire of throwing sticks when he never wearied of recovering them. So when she bent to tie her shoe-string he assumed that another stick was coming, and, yelping with delight, he crouched for the spring.
But Buddie, in bending over, had made a discovery that put an end to playing with sticks, for that day at least.
“Oh, what pretty flowers!” she cried; and she began to make a bouquet of some white blossoms that grew among the mosses of the fallen cedar.