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Title: Mother West Wind “Where” Stories

Author: Thornton W. Burgess

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MOTHER WEST WIND “WHERE” STORIES

THORNTON W. BURGESS

Illustrations by Harrison Cady

[Illustration: “Then there was a crash, and everybody’s eyes flew open.”
FRONTISPIECE. See Page 243.]

Burgess Trade Quaddies Mark

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York
By arrangement with Little, Brown, and Company
Copyright, 1918,
by Thornton W. Burgess.
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. WHERE GRANDFATHER FROG GOT
HIS BIG MOUTH 1

II. WHERE MISER THE TRADE RAT
FIRST SET UP SHOP 17

III. WHERE YAP-YAP THE PRAIRIE DOG
USED HIS WITS 31

IV. WHERE YELLOW-WING GOT HIS
LIKING FOR THE GROUND 47

V. WHERE LITTLE CHIEF LEARNED TO MAKE HAY 61

VI. Where glutton the Wolverine got his name 77

VII. Where old Mrs. ’Gator made
the first INCUBATOR 91

VIII. Where Mr. Quack got his
webbed feet 107

IX. Where Thunderfoot the Bison
got his hump 123

X. Where Limberheels got his
long tail 139

XI. Where old Mr. Gobbler got the
strutting habit 155

XII. Where seek-seek got his
pretty coat 169

XIII. Where old Mr. Osprey learned
to fish 185

XIV. Where old Mr. Bob-cat left his
honor 199

XV. Where Dippy the Loon got the
name of being crazy 213

XVI. Where big-Horn got his curved
horns 229

List of illustrations

Page

“Then there was A crash, and everybody’s
eyes flew open” FRONTISPIECE

“Little Chief’s father taught him how
to make hay” 74

Peter noticed those feet the first time
he met Mr. And Mrs. Quack 122

“Don’t call me striped Chipmunk, and
don’t call me Gopher!” Said he 170