CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I[Tinkle in the Swamp]7
II[Tinkle Makes Trouble]16
III[Tinkle and George]26
IV[Tinkle’s New Home]36
V[Tinkle’s Friends]47
VI[Tinkle Meets Dido]55
VII[Tinkle Does Some Tricks]65
VIII[Tinkle is Taken Away]74
IX[Tinkle in the Circus]85
X[Tinkle and Tum Tum]94
XI[Tinkle Is Sad]103
XII[Tinkle Is Happy]111

ILLUSTRATIONS

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[He nosed around among all the flags until he found the one he knew he wanted, and with that in his teeth he trotted over to Mr. Drake]Frontispiece
[And the next time he did jump high enough to go over the fence]23
[It was the first time Tinkle had ever had any one on his back]45
[“Oh, what a nice pony cart!” cried the boys and girls]59
[It took a little time to make him stand upon his hind legs without anything on which to rest his front feet]81
[As Tinkle looked he saw one funny elephant slyly reach out his trunk and pull the tail of the elephant in front of him]101
[George threw his arms around the pony’s neck]117

TINKLE,
THE TRICK PONY

CHAPTER I
TINKLE IN THE SWAMP

Tinkle stopped nibbling the sweet, green grass of the meadow, blew a long breath from his nose, raised his head and looked around. Then he blinked his eyes slowly, turned to look first on one side, then on the other, and to himself he said: