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[The Audacious Kitten]1
[The Artful Ant]4
[The Gifted Ant]10
[Sir Rat. A Comedy]16
[The Deceitful Dormice]22
[Nature and Art]24
[The Geometrical Giraffe]25
[The Early Owl]32
[A Dark Career]35
[A Packet of Letters]37
[The Naughty Fay]43
[The Miller’s Quest]46
[Nell’s Fairy Tale]50
[The Unfortunate Giraffe]52
[Stockings or Scales]53
[A Riddle]54
[Good-bye]56
[The Professor and the White Violet]58
[The First Rose of Summer]60
[The Elf and the Dormouse]62
[The Crocodile]64
[The Forgetful Forget-Me-Not]69
[The Birds’ Farewell]72
[The Spider’s Tale]73
[Highly Connected]78
[The Miser Elf]79
[The Point of View]84
[Heroes]88
[A Belated Violet]89
[The Parrot and the Cuckoo]92
[The Elf and the Bee]96
[A Fable]97
[The Fairies’ Concert]98

The pictures in “The Point of View” are used by permission of Messrs. Harper and Brothers.


Artful Anticks


The Audacious Kitten.

“Hurray!” cried the kitten, “Hurray!”
As he merrily set the sails;
“I sail o’er the ocean to-day
To look at the Prince of Wales!”

“O kitten! O kitten!” I cried,
“Why tempt the angry gales?”
“I’m going,” the kitten replied,
“To look at the Prince of Wales!

“I know what it is to get wet,
I’ve tumbled full oft into pails
And nearly been drowned—and yet
I must look at the Prince of Wales!”