GROSSET & DUNLAP
Publishers
New York
By arrangement with Little, Brown and Company

Copyright, 1911,
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS.
All rights reserved

TO
ALL THE LITTLE FRIENDS
OF
JOHNNY CHUCK AND REDDY FOX,
AND TO
ALL WHO LOVE THE GREEN MEADOWS
AND THE SMILING POOL,
THE LAUGHING BROOK AND THE MERRY LITTLE BREEZES,
THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. [DANNY MEADOW MOUSE LEARNS WHY HIS TAIL IS SHORT]
II. [WHY REDDY FOX HAS NO FRIENDS]
III. [WHY PETER RABBIT'S EARS ARE LONG]
IV. [REDDY FOX DISOBEYS]
V. [STRIPED CHIPMUNK'S POCKETS]
VI. [REDDY FOX, THE BOASTER]
VII. [JOHNNY CHUCK'S SECRET]
VIII. [JOHNNY CHUCK'S GREAT FIGHT]
IX. [MR. TOAD'S OLD SUIT]
X. [GRANDFATHER FROG GETS EVEN]
XI. [THE DISAPPOINTED BUSH]
XII. [WHY BOBBY COON WASHES HIS FOOD]
XIII. [THE MERRY LITTLE BREEZES HAVE A BUSY DAY]
XIV. [WHY HOOTY THE OWL DOES NOT PLAY ON THE GREEN MEADOWS]
XV. [DANNY MEADOW MOUSE LEARNS TO LAUGH]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[ "YAP-YAP-YAP," BARKED REDDY FOX, AS LOUD
AS HE COULD . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece ]

[ MR. RABBIT HAD A GREAT DEAL OF CURIOSITY,
A VERY GREAT DEAL, INDEED ]

[ THEN EVERYBODY SHOUTED "HAW! HAW! HAW!" ]

[ HE WAS SO SURPRISED HE FORGOT TO CLOSE IT ]