Chapter Page
I. In the Old Four-Posted Bed[9]
II. Off on an Adventure[19]
III. They Make an Enemy[21]
IV. In the Middle of a Thunderstorm[25]
V. They Meet Their First Bear[30]
VI. Under the Snow[36]
VII. The Castle of the South Wind[40]
VIII. Towards the Great West Land[46]
IX. In the Tropics[57]
X. Shipwrecked[62]
XI. Waomba-Mother of the West Land[65]
XII. Lost in a Forest[69]
XIII. In the Arms of the Mist Maidens[77]
XIV. Inside a Crocodile[82]
XV. The Clerk of the Weather Lays a Trap[90]
XVI. Discovered by the East Wind[97]
XVII. The Strangest Ride that Ever Was[105]
XVIII. The East Wind and the White Elephant[110]
XIX. The East Wind in a Rage[115]
XX. In the Den of the Spinster Spider[119]
XXI. Coppertop and the Old Mother-Bird[128]
XXII. Tibbs and Kiddiwee to the Rescue[133]
XXIII. The December Day is Almost Theirs[140]
XXIV. Biddy-be-sure, the Irish Witch[145]
XXV. Coppertop Kisses the Blarney Stone[148]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Colored.
Coppertop[Frontispiece]
“Come along,” cried TibbsTo face page [16]
The Albatross and the Sea-Maidens”” [48]
“Look again, little one,” said Waomba”” [80]
Tibbs and Kiddiwee escape from the Crocodile”” [96]
“Foolish ones,” said Amon Ra””[112]
Miss Smiler sits on the White Elephant””[128]
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Black and White.
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“If a Book of Travels can’t move about a bit, who can?”[16]
The Clerk of the Weather[22]
“Oh, my hair is on fire!” cried Coppertop[26]
The South Wind[43]
Skipper Blubberkins[53]
The Four-posted Bed at Sea[60]
The Chief of the Monkey Tribe[73]
The East Wind[101]
“Don’t talk of husbands to me,” said the Elderly Spinster Spider[125]
The North Wind[142]

COPPERTOP

CHAPTER I.
IN THE OLD FOUR-POSTED BED

SHE sat up in the big four-poster and listened to the wind as it blew round the house.

A ’possum on the roof uttered a plaintive gurgling cry, which sent a little shiver down her back, and she snuggled under the bedclothes, thankful for their cosy protection.