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]

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IN WEASEL WOOD
He held himself with an air, his body arched, one broad white pad uplifted, his tail curved decorouslyFrontispiece
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]

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