This collection includes Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories, Mother West Wind 'Where' Stories, Mother West Wind's Children, The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad, The Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The Adventures of Prickly Porky, the Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum, Lightfoot the Deer, and Bowser the Hound. According to Wikipedia: 'Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 - June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, 'Bedtime Stories'. He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column.'
Illustrations by HARRISON CADY
GROSSET& DUNLAP, PublishersNew York
By arrangement with Little, Brown, and Company
Copyright, 1918, By Thornton W. Burgess.
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
I WHERE GRANDFATHER FROG GOT HIS BIG MOUTH
II WHERE MISER THE TRADE RAT FIRST SET UP SHOP
III WHERE YAP-YAP THE PRAIRIE DOG USED HIS WITS
IV WHERE YELLOW-WING GOT HIS LIKING FOR THE GROUND
V WHERE LITTLE CHIEF LEARNED TO MAKE HAY
VI WHERE GLUTTON THE WOLVERINE GOT HIS NAME
VII WHERE OLD MRS. 'GATOR MADE THE FIRST INCUBATOR
VIII WHERE MR. QUACK GOT HIS WEBBED FEET
IX WHERE THUNDERFOOT THE BISON GOT HIS HUMP
X WHERE LIMBERHEELS GOT HIS LONG TAIL.
XI WHERE OLD MR. GOBBLER GOT THE STRUTTING HABIT
XII WHERE SEEK-SEEK GOT HIS PRETTY COAT
XIII WHERE OLD MR. OSPREY LEARNED TO FISH
XIV WHERE OLD MR. BOB-CAT LEFT HIS HONOR
XV WHERE DIPPY THE LOON GOT THE NAME OF BEING CRAZY
XVI WHERE BIG-HORN GOT HIS CURVED HORNS
Everybody knows that Grandfather Frog has a big mouth. Of course! It wouldn't be possible to look him straight in the face and not know that he has a big mouth. In fact, about all you see when you look Grandfather Frog full in the face are his great big mouth and two great big goggly eyes. He seems then to be all mouth and eyes.
Anyway, that is what Peter Rabbit says. Peter never will forget the first time he saw Grandfather Frog. Peter was very young then. He had run away from home to see the Great World, and in the course of his wanderings he came to the Smiling Pool. Never before had he seen so much water. The most water he had ever seen before was a little puddle in the
