CAROLINE AND HER KITTEN 104
"I DON'T KNOW" 119
THE LEARNED GEESE 125
THE WRONG WAY 131
THE RIGHT WAY 135
THE OLD GOAT AND HIS PUPIL 140
ON BARKING DOGS 147


ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE FOX AND THE CRAB (Frontispiece)
VIGNETTE TITLE-PAGE 1
THE SPIDER'S INVITATION 30
THE SPIDER'S TRIUMPH 41
KATE AND HER TUTOR 72
MY PRETTY KITTEN 109
THE LEARNED GEESE 124
THE OLD GOAT AND HIS PUPIL 141



I.


THE NAME OF MY BOOK.

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The reader, perhaps, as he turns over the first pages of this volume,