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Title: The Adventures of Unc’ Billy Possum
Author: Thornton W. Burgess
Release Date: January 19, 2005 [eBook #14732]
Language: English
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The Bedtime Story-Books
THE ADVENTURES OF UNC’ BILLY POSSUM
by
THORNTON W. BURGESS
Author of The Adventures of Peter Cottontail,
Old Mother West Wind,
etc.
With Illustrations by HARRISON CADY
Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1920
[Illustration: Reddy Fox sprang up as if some
one had stuck a pin into
him. FRONTISPIECE.]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. Unc’
Billy Possum is caught
II. Reddy
Fox thinks he SEES A ghost
III. Unc’
Billy Possum SENDS for his family
IV. Bobby
Coon ENTERS the wrong house
V. Bobby
Coon is waked up
VI. Sammy
Jay LEARNS Peter Rabbit’s secret
VII. Four little
scamps plan mischief
VIII. Peter Rabbit
SENDS out word
IX. Mr. Toad
and Prickly Porky put their
heads together
X. The runaway
cabbage
XI. Reddy
Fox goes hungry
XII. Prickly Porky
makes himself at home
XIII. Unc’ Billy
Possum GROWS hungry
XIV. Old Mrs.
Possum GROWS worried
XV. The foolishness
of Unc’ Billy Possum
XVI. Why Unc’
Billy Possum didn’t go home
XVII. Unc’ Billy
Possum LIES low
XVIII. Unc’ Billy
Possum is A prisoner
XIX. What the
snow did
XX. Unc’
Billy Possum WISHES he had snowshoes
XXI. Farmer Brown’s
boy CHOPS down A tree
XXII. Where Unc’
Billy Possum was
XXIII. Happy Jack Squirrel
makes an UNEXPECTED call
XXIV. Happy Jack
Squirrel HELPS Unc’ Billy Possum
XXV. Happy Jack
SQUIRREL’S bright idea
