TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| How the Eagle Went Hungry | [1] |
| Little Footsteps upon the Water | [6] |
| The Story of Lambikin | [12] |
| Brother Wolf and the Rock | [18] |
| Little Bear | [22] |
| How the Pigs Can See the Wind | [27] |
| The Talking Grass | [33] |
| How the Fox Played Herdsman | [38] |
| Mr. Elephant and Mr. Frog | [43] |
| How Drakestail Went to the King | [48] |
| The Greedy Cat | [53] |
| The Three Billy Goats Gruff | [58] |
| The Hobyahs | [63] |
| The Kid Who Would Not Go | [68] |
| The Robin’s Christmas Song | [71] |
| The Story of Ibbity | [76] |
| The Chipmunk Who Chattered Too Much | [80] |
| How the Squirrel Got Wings | [86] |
| How They Brought Hairlock Home | [91] |
| The Bear Who Lost His Supper | [95] |
| The Rabbit Who Was Afraid | [100] |
| How Maple Sugar Came | [106] |
| The Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings | [111] |
| How the First Mayflowers Came | [116] |
| How the Rabbit Tried to Coast | [122] |
| Why the Field Mouse Is Little | [127] |
| How the First Bears Came | [132] |
| Why the Bear Has a Stumpy Tail | [138] |
| Why the Bear Sleeps All Winter | [140] |
HOW THE EAGLE
WENT HUNGRY.
Once upon a time, before there were white men on the earth, the Beavers were a family like men. They were thrifty and honest, and spent their time building in the lakes and ponds. They had hands like our hands. They were dressed in gray fur, warm enough for the winters, and dark enough for all the digging which they had to do.
There was no family of all the forest so hard working as the Beavers. The Beaver men had a secret trade of making arrows. They dug flint out of the rocks along the bank and shaped it into arrowheads. These had such magic that the Beavers always had dried meat hanging in their houses.
Most wonderful of all, though, was their skill in building. With no tools but their broad, flat hands, the Beavers built strong dams which made pools in the streams where the fish could hatch. They built their own homes, with many halls and rooms, of the mud at the bottom of the water. All the Beavers worked, even the women and children. Here they lived in honesty and peace and asked nothing of any one.
In the same days the Eagle was a proud warrior, dressed from head to foot in colored feathers. He lived on a mountain top, and when he came down to the forest he wished great honor. The winds blew their trumpets for him, and the thunder beat drums. All the creatures were asked to bow before the Eagle, and he expected fish and berries to be brought him for a feast.