List of Pictures
| 'You have disturbed my afternoon nap' (Coloured) | [Frontispiece.] |
| 'I want to pick some for myself!' (Coloured) | [40] |
| The old dog stood on his hind-legs and blinked with his blind eyes | [50] |
| 'You really ought not to be so wasteful with your leaves, old friend,' said the bear, licking his paws | [70] |
| 'Hide me! Save me!' (Coloured) | [80] |
| 'Fie, for shame!' they cried to the beech-leaves. 'It's you that are killing us' | [94] |
| 'Good-bye,' said the maiden-pink | [114] |
| There sat the mouse in the sugar-basin (Coloured) | [128] |
The Old Willow-tree
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There are many kinds of willows and they are so unlike that you would hardly believe them to be relations.
There are some so small and wretched that they creep along the ground. They live on the heath, or high up in the mountains, or in the cold arctic regions. In the winter, they are quite hidden under the snow; in the summer, they just poke up their noses above the tops of the heather.