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Title: The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack

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The Bedtime Story-Books

THE ADVENTURES OF POOR MRS. QUACK

THORNTON W. BURGESS

Author of “Old Mother West Wind,” “The Bedtime Story-Books,” etc.

CONTENTS

I. Peter Rabbit Becomes Acquainted with Mrs. Quack
II. Mrs. Quack is Distrustful
III. Mrs. Quack Tells About Her Home
IV. Mrs. Quack Continues Her Story
V. Peter Learns More of Mrs. Quack’s Troubles
VI. Farmer Brown’s Boy Visits the Smiling Pool
VII. Mrs. Quack Returns
VIII. Mrs. Quack Has a Good Meal and a Rest
IX. Peter Rabbit Makes an Early Call
X. How Mr. and Mrs. Quack Started North
XI. The Terrible, Terrible Guns
XII. What Did Happen to Mr. Quack
XIII. Peter Tells About Mrs. Quack
XIV. Sammy Jay’s Plan to Help Mrs. Quack
XV. The Hunt for Mr. Quack
XVI. Sammy Jay Sees Something Green
XVII. Mr. Quack Is Found at Last
XVIII.Sammy Jay Sends Mrs. Quack to the Swamp
XIX. Jerry Muskrat’s Great Idea
XX. Happy Days for Mr. and Mrs. Quack

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

“Marshes must be something like swamps,” ventured Peter Rabbit
Frontispiece

Several times she circled around, high over the Smiling Pool

“Some folks call him Alligator and some just ’Gator”

“Just tuck that fact away in that empty head of yours and never
say can’t”

“Yes,” said he in a low voice, “I am Mr. Quack”

Those were happy days indeed for Mr. and Mrs. Quack in the pond
of Paddy the Beaver