IN TENDER, LOVING, REVERENT MEMORY OF MY MOTHER,
WHO LOVED LITTLE CHILDREN AND WAS BELOVED
OF THEM, AND TO WHOM I OWE A DEBT
OF AFFECTION AND OF GRATITUDE
BEYOND MY POWER TO PAY

Suddenly he met Mr. Panther. Frontispiece.

CONTENTS

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I. [The Merry Little Breezes Save the Green Meadows ]1
II. [The Stranger in the Green Forest ]13
III. [How Prickly Porky Got His Quills ]29
IV. [Peter Rabbit's Egg Rolling ]47
V. [How Johnny Chuck Ran Away ]63
VI. [Peter Rabbit's Run for Life ]77
VII. [A Joker Fooled ]93
VIII. [The Fuss in the Big Pine ]109
IX. [Johnny Chuck Finds a Use for His Back Door ]123
X. [Billy Mink Goes Dinnerless ]135
XI. [Grandfather Frog's Journey ]149
XII. [Why Blacky the Crow Wears Mourning ]161
XIII. [Striped Chipmunk Fools Peter Rabbit ]177
XIV. [Jerry Muskrat's New House ]195
XV. [Peter Rabbit's Big Cousin ]211

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