One word about the illustrations: these all, without exception, were drawn for the book. Much time, labor, and expense have been bestowed upon the effort to make them appropriate and entertaining. The illustrations of a story may be compared to the music of a song. We can bear with some defect in the verse if the music awakens the sentiment the verse was intended to express. So the author hopes that the excellence and originality of many of these designs will in some measure make amends for whatever deficiencies the reader may discover in the text.

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The Innkeeper.[13]
The Brook and the Waterwheel.[37]
The Court-House Steeple.[41]
Crooked Horn and Old Brindle.[46]
The Millers Tenth.[51]
The Lark and the Whippoorwill.[69]
The Gate and Gate Post.[73]

The Weedy Farm.[78]
The King Seeking Content.[84]
The Learned Owl.[94]
The Horse and the Grasshoppers.[98]
The Bark and the Lightship.[101]
The Unhonored Servant.[104]
Wings.[107]
Standpoints.[111]
The Man with a Menagerie.[117]
Two Outlooks.[121]
Job Nickel.[125]
The Unused Loom.[133]
Crowing.[137]
Peter Crisp’s Spectacles.[140]
The Two Apple Trees.[182]
The Spring in the Woods.[186]

The Distant View.[189]
The Two Vines.[195]
The Old Chestnut and the Young Oak.[199]
Corn-cribs.[202]
The Old Clock in the New Home.[209]
The Great Secret.[213]
The House-Builder.[216]
Pigeons.[223]
The Clock on the Desk.[225]
The Watch-Dog.[228]
The Opened Eyes.[231]
The Lantern People.[235]
Grand Relations.[253]
Fair and Foul Weather.[255]
Wreckage.[258]
The Robin.[261]

Riddles.[265]
The Emigrants Wagon.[268]
Big and Little Lanterns.[273]
The Cat and the Tiger.[278]
Charity.[281]
The Day-Laborers.[286]
The Artist’s Answer.[291]
The Hemlock and the Sugar-Maple.[294]
Bread and the Beautiful.[297]
The Harper.[301]
The Unappreciated Gift.[305]
The Worn-Out Team.[310]
The Wise Farmer.[314]
Wayfarers.[319]
Other Birds Feathers.[323]
The Night-Watchman.[326]
Single and Double.[332]
The Boastful Fly.[335]

The Mended Boots.[339]
The Cripple and his Staff.[344]
The Search.[360]
The Swallows and the Windmill.[365]
The Medicine-Man.[370]
The Eagle and the Wren.[374]
The Two Saplings.[378]
The Cog-Wheel.[382]
The Plough and the Mowing-Machine.[386]
Fat and Lean.[389]
Half Empty and Quite Full.[392]
The Snake.[395]
Rich & Poor.[398]
The Hawk and the Chicken.[402]
The Servants Money.[405]
Future Greatness.[411]
The Old Mans Watch.[415]
The Teacher.[418]

Cloud Shadows.[426]
The Penitent Transgressor.[428]
The Dry Well.[432]
The Fruit Tree.[435]
The Deer.[438]
Homely and Handsome.[442]
The Colt and Old Gray.[446]
The King’s Almoner.[453]
Pansies.[457]
The Birds and the Bells.[459]
Jack and Jenny.[465]
The Meeting of the Winds.[476]

THE INNKEEPER.