Billy Mink

by Thornton W. Burgess

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY

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CONTENTS
CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Billy Mink Becomes Suspicious	[1]
II	Billy Finds a Trap	[6]
III	Billy Outwits the Trapper	[11]
IV	Billy Finds Some Queer Fences	[16]
V	A Moonlight Visit	[21]
VI	Billy Warns Bobby Coon	[26]
VII	Bobby and Billy Put Their Heads Together	[31]
VIII	What Bobby Coon and Billy Mink Did	[36]
IX	Bobby Coon Gets a Fright	[41]
X	Billy and Bobby Warn Their Friends	[46]
XI	Billy and Little Joe Decide to Go Visiting	[51]
XII	Billy Has the Wandering Foot	[56]
XIII	Billy Makes Himself at Home	[61]
XIV	Billy Has Good Hunting	[66]
XV	A Den of Robbers	[71]
XVI	A Robber Meeting	[76]
XVII	The Robbers Decide to Fight	[81]
XVIII	The Rats Plan to Kill Billy Mink	[86]
XIX	The Danger Signal	[91]
XX	Why the Plans of the Rats Failed	[96]
XXI	The Rats Leave the Big Barn	[101]
XXII	Billy Mink’s Surprise	[106]
XXIII	Billy Hunts in Vain	[111]
XXIV	Where the Rats Were	[116]
XXV	The Farmer and His Wife Are in Despair	[120]
XXVI	The Rats Start a Fire	[124]
XXVII	Billy Is Discovered	[129]
XXVIII	The Farmer Guesses the Truth	[134]
XXIX	The Farmer Makes Friends with Billy	[139]
XXX	Billy Lives High	[144]
XXXI	Billy Trails His Breakfast	[148]
XXXII	Billy Makes a Discovery	[153]
XXXIII	The Farmer Sees a Strange Sight	[158]
XXXIV	Billy Goes Home	[162]
XXXV	Billy Mink Is Quick	[167]
XXXVI	A Heap of Snow Comes to Life	[172]
XXXVII	Jumper the Hare Has a Bad Hour	[177]
XXXVIII	Jumper Is in a Dreadful State of Mind	[182]
XXXIX	An Enemy Proves a Friend	[186]
XL	Something Billy Mink Didn’t Know	[191]

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ILLUSTRATIONS
	“Of course,” said Billy Mink, “you and I are safe enough.”	[Frontispiece]
	Jerry Muskrat was swimming over towards his house	[49]
	The Rats leave the big barn	[105]
	It was plain to see that those Rats were in a terrible fright	[160]

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CHAPTER I
BILLY MINK BECOMES SUSPICIOUS

The stranger and the unknown must

Be always looked on with distrust.