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CHATTERBOX 1906
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Close on His Heels
Page About the Ash 250 About Topiaries 99 A Brave Answer 43 A Brave Lad 309 A Chinese Solomon 15 A Generous Act 99 A Gentle Donkey 378, 390, 398, 402, 410 A Good Comrade 159 A Hasty Judgment 375 A Humorous Punishment 70 A Hundred Years Ago 15, 54, 84, 107, 155, 179, 211, 250, 282,
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pginternal" href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@24324@[email protected]#A_HUNDRED_YEARS_AGO9" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">307, 347 A Modern Wizard 394 An Artful Jack 162 An Eastern Puzzle 355 Anecdotes, 6, 30, 34, 43, 51, 66, 147, 179, 190, 218, 227, 235, 323, 341, 355, 371, 378, 382, 395, 407 An Intruder 269 A Pincushion Factory 91 Apples or Thistles? 267 A Seasonable Answer 11 A Silent Reproof 331 A Story of the Unforeseen 190 'As You Please' 277 A Turkey's Costly Diet 302 Average 395 'A Will of Her Own' 279 A Wonderful Weighing Machine 203 Barnacles and Geese 238 'Billikins' 239 Catching Birds under Water 323 Caught by a Tree 218 Chinese Physic
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">182 Clothed in Chatterbox 348 Conquered by Love 214 Conscience and the China Figures 178 Counting 238 Crébillon and the Rat 291 Crocodiles in Central Africa 75 Crowded Out 403 Curious Granaries 292 Cutting It Down 278 Elephants attacking a Granary 46 Ethel's Golden Offering 22 Eva's Kitten 333 Faithful to Duty. 83 Famous Roses 326 Feathered Friendship 53 Flowers and Colours 262 Flowers of the Night 118 Fred's New World 62 Forgetful Fanny 26 Gas-light Insect-hunting 395 Glimpses of Hedgehog Life 141 Graham's Last Practical Joke 162 Grey-skin's Adventures 221 Hare versus Pheasant 214 Haydn's Drum 34 His Master's Hat 15 How Gordon Kept Shop 238 How the Arabs Bake their Bread 357 How to Obtain Food 139 Huge Birds 403 In Harvard Museum 350 Iron-smelting in India 285 Jess 397 Jock's Collie 351 Long Lived
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@24324@[email protected]#Page_83" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">83 Long Tom's Gratitude 13 Marvels of Man's Making 2, 42, 78, 126, 148, 187, 218, 243, 282, 316, 405 Mary's Reward 77 May Day 175 Movable Roofs 253 'Mr. Harold' 349 Muriel's First Patient 327 Not Afraid 407 Not Guilty 251 Now 237 Old Oxford Castle 230 Old Sarum 342 Olive and the Bees 109 One Thing at a Time 175 Peeps into Nature's Nurseries 11, 37, 59, 75, 100, 131, 134, 164, 203, 235, 275, 299, 339, 371 Ping-Kwe's Downfall 303 Plants with Signs 347 Ploughing in
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Syria 315 Puzzlers for Wise Heads 15, 51, 75, 115, 147, 179, 214, 286, 323, 371, 395 Rosie 165 Round the Camp-fire 19, 26, 34, 66, 82, 98, 130, 154, 194, 205, 226, 258, 338, 354, 386 Saved by a Gipsy 243 Sir Ralph Abercromby 174 Sowing and Reaping 118, 123 Spider Runners 382 Stories from Africa 30, 46, 58, 90 106, 138, 170, 210, 242, 266, 290, 330,
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@24324@[email protected]#Page_362" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">362 Strange Nesting-places 324 Tabby's Ghost 389 Taking It Literally 132 Teaching Him a Lesson 410 Telegraph Wires in Central Africa 164 The Arbalist, or Crossbow 212 The Barberry 147 The Brave Countess 379 The Broken Promise 365 The Captain's Pudding 258 The Count and the Dove 254 The Cow-waggon 363 The Dead Watch 115 The Duck-billed Platypus 181 The Duke's Ruse 299 The First Tea 159 The Force of Labour 390 The Giant of the Treasure Caves 6, 10, 22, 30, 38, 47, 50, 63, 70, 74, 87, 94, 102, 110, 114, 123, 134, 142, 146, 157, 166,
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@24324@[email protected]#THE_GIANT_OF_THE_TREASURE_CAVES7G" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">172, 182, 186, 198, 202, 214, 222, 230, 234, 246, 254, 262, 270, 274, 286, 294, 298, 310, 314, 322, 334, 342, 346, 358, 367, 370, 382 The Groaning Tree of Baddesley 235 The Honest Sailor 122 The Hoof-mark on the Wall 171 The Kestrel's Eggs 196 The King of Persia 396 The Ladybird and the Caterpillar 306 The Last Time 3 The Leopard's Looking-glass 380 The Little Old Woman 373 Themistocles and the Greek Generals 331 The Misunderstood Poets 286 The Moles and the Mountain 54 The Multiplication Table
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">26 The Music of the Nations 21, 51, 69, 115, 147, 172, 195, 229, 261, 292, 324, 380 The New Zealand Glow-worm 334 The Penguin 277 The Picture-cleaners 139 The Policeman's Joke 301 The Prairie Dog 61 The Ptarmigan and Pine Marten 66 The Reward of a Genius 142, 151 The Riddle of the Year 155 The Rosemont Grotto and the Petchaburg Caverns 396 The Self-heal 267 The Sensible Hare 374 The Shadoofs and Draw-wheels of Egypt 43 The Sloth 93 The Soldier of Antigonus 291 The Story of Rock-salt 302 The Sugar Maple 294 The Symbols of Japan 214 The Timid Mouse 348 The Trials of Leckinski 306, 319 The Union Jack 348 The Way to Command 62 The Yak 125 Think This Out 222 'Those Horrid Boys'
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@24324@[email protected]#THOSE_HORRID_BOYS" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">207 Too Much for the Whistle 54 To the Rescue! 261 True Happiness 310 Umbrella Treason 18 Union is Strength 189 Waits 166 Well Repaid 355 Where there's a Will there's a Way 387 Wild Animals in Captivity 18