London
EVELEIGH NASH & GRAYSON LTD.
148 Strand
1922
Printed by
WOODS & SONS, LTD.,
338-340, Upper Street,
London, N. 1.
IN MEMORY
C. J. E.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| JANUARY | |
| SOMETHING ABOUT BATS | [17] |
| FEBRUARY | |
| SOMETHING ABOUT TADPOLES | [29] |
| VALENTINE'S DAY | |
| A FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING GO | [41] |
| MARCH | |
| ANIMALS' NESTS | [75] |
| APRIL | |
| SOMETHING ABOUT BEETLES | [89] |
| LADY DAY | |
| BUNNY RABBIT | [101] |
| MAY | |
| A BUTTERFLY PAINT-BOX | [117] |
| JUNE | |
| TWO WONDERFUL WASPS | [127] |
| MIDSUMMER DAY | |
| SPINIPES THE SAND-WASP | [143] |
| JULY | |
| PICTURES ON BUTTERFLIES' WINGS | [171] |
| AUGUST | |
| A VERY WEE BEASTIE AND A VERY BIG ONE | [179] |
| LAMMAS DAY | |
| IN WEASEL WOOD | [187] |
| SEPTEMBER | |
| SHEEP IN WOLVES' CLOTHING AND WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING | [213] |
| OCTOBER | |
| THE BEASTIES' BED-TIME | [227] |
| MICHAELMAS DAY | |
| THE BLUNDERS OF BARTIMÆUS | [237] |
| NOVEMBER | |
| SOMETHING ABOUT A CHAMÆLEON | [261] |
| DECEMBER | |
| THE TRAIL OF NIMBLE BEASTS | [269] |
| CHRISTMAS DAY | |
| THE GREAT GREEN GRASSHOPPER'S BAND | [279] |
| BOXING-DAY | |
| THE PYGMY SHREW | [301] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
| IN WEASEL WOOD | |
| He held himself with an air, his body arched, one broad white pad uplifted, his tail curved decorously | Frontispiece |
| A FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING GO | |
| The Green Toad slowly stretched himself. "THAT?" said he, "that's not French" | [60] |
| At the fifth stone—a bulky slanting one—he sighted the French Frog | [60] |
| SPINIPES, THE SAND WASP | |
| An instant's pause to shift her grip, and she had pushed the grub within the entrance | [162] |
| "Take that—and that—and That," said Spinipes, and drove her sharp Sting home | [162] |
| THE GREAT GREEN GRASSHOPPER'S BAND | |
| And the last thing Winnie remembers was the Great Green Grasshopper's Wife hurrying the little Skipjacks off to bed | [279] |