The Project Gutenberg eBook, Mother West Wind's Children, by Thornton W. Burgess, Illustrated by George Kerr

Title: Mother West Wind's Children

Author: Thornton W. Burgess

Release Date: March 22, 2007 [eBook #20877]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOTHER WEST WIND'S CHILDREN***

"Yap-yap-yap," barked Reddy Fox, as loud as he could.

MOTHER WEST WIND'S CHILDREN

BY

THORNTON W. BURGESS

Author of "Old Mother West Wind"

Illustrated by George Kerr

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

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

MOTHER WEST WIND'S CHILDREN

I

DANNY MEADOW MOUSE LEARNS WHY HIS TAIL IS SHORT

Danny Meadow Mouse sat in his doorway and looked down the Lone Little Path across the Green Meadows. Way, way over near the Smiling Pool he could see Old Mother West Wind's Children, the Merry Little Breezes, at play. Sammy Jay was sitting on a fence post. He pretended to be taking a sun bath, but really he was planning mischief. You never see Sammy Jay that he isn't in mischief or planning it.

Reddy Fox had trotted past an hour before in a great hurry. Up on the hill Danny Meadow Mouse could just see Jimmy Skunk pulling over every old stick and stone he could find, no matter whose house it might be, and excusing himself because he was hungry and was looking for beetles.

Jolly, round, red Mr. Sun was