THE CONTENTS

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[Watermelon Pete]11
[Piggy’s Thistle Whistle]25
[Lady Bug Goes Shopping]33
[Little Baby Elephant and his New Clothes]36
[Little Brown Hen]55
[The Little Brown Dog and the Little White Cat]64
[The Woodpecker Bird and the Owl]70

WATERMELON PETE

Once there was a little darky boy, and his name was Watermelon Pete. They called him Watermelon Pete because his mouth was just the shape of a big, slice of ripe watermelon.

One night when old Mr. Moon was looking in Watermelon Pete’s window, and shining so bright that he couldn’t go to sleep at all, all at once he began to feel hungry. And he said, “Oh, dear, I wish I had a nice big piece of watermelon to eat!”

And then a naughty little Blackie, who was sitting on Watermelon Pete’s bedpost, just hoping that he would want to get out of bed and get into mischief, said, “I know where there are some watermelons. Farmer Brown has some down in his watermelon patch.”