ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE THE HOLLOW TREE AND DEEP WOODS PEOPLE _Frontispiece_ MAP OF THE HOLLOW TREE AND DEEP WOODS COUNTRY 4 GATHERING NICE PIECES OF WOOD 17 THE PANTRY IN THE HOLLOW TREE 24 "SLIPPED IN BEHIND HIM WHEN HE WENT INTO THE TENT" 29 "HE LOOKED SMILING AND GOOD-NATURED, AND I WENT OVER TO ASK HIM SOME QUESTIONS" 31 "GAVE ME AN EXTRA BIG SWING AND CRACK" 35 ALL AT ONCE HE HEARD A FIERCE BARK CLOSE BEHIND HIM 43 "THEN I SUDDENLY FELT LIKE A SHOOTING-STAR" 47 "THEN MR. DOG SAID, 'TELL ME ANOTHER'" 49 "AND DID ROLL OFF THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, SURE ENOUGH" 53 "I SET OUT FOR HOME WITHOUT WAITING TO SAY GOOD-BYE" 55 CAME CLATTERING DOWN RIGHT IN FRONT OF MR. DOG 61 SO THEN MR. DOG TRIED TO GET MR. 'POSSUM ON HIS SHOULDER 64 HE WAS AN OLD BACHELOR AND LIKED TO HAVE HIS OWN WAY 67 THEY SAW MR. CROW OUT IN THE YARD CUTTING WOOD FOR HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW 69 HAD TO STAY AT HOME AND PEEL POTATOES 75 LISTENED NOW AND THEN AT WIDOW CROW'S DOOR TO BE SURE SHE WAS ASLEEP 79 MR. 'POSSUM SAID HE'D JUST GET ON AND HOLD THE THINGS 81 MR. 'POSSUM AND MR. 'COON TRIED TO PUT UP THE STOVE 83 MR. FOX SAID HE DIDN'T HAVE MUCH TO DO FOR A FEW MINUTES AND HE'D ACT AS JUDGE 93 SAILING ALONG, JUST TOUCHING THE HIGHEST POINTS 97 AWAY WENT MR. TORTOISE, CLEAR OVER THE TOP RAIL 99 SET OUT FOR HOME BY A BACK WAY 101 TRIED TO SPLICE HIS PROPERTY BACK IN PLACE 107 GRANDFATHER WOULD LIGHT HIS PIPE AND THINK IT OVER 109 SET UP HIS EARS AND WENT BY, LICKETY-SPLIT 111 "'GLAD TO SEE YOU,' SAID KING LION; 'I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT HAVING A NICE RABBIT FOR BREAKFAST'" 113 GOT AROUND THE TABLE AND BEGAN TO WORK 125 MR. 'POSSUM WANTED TO KNOW WHAT MR. RABBIT MEANT BY SPINNING THEIR TAILS 129 MR. DOG SAID HE HAD MADE A FEW SKETCHES 133 MR. 'POSSUM SAID IT MIGHT BE A GOOD ENOUGH STORY, BUT IT COULDN'T BE TRUE 137 SO THEN MR. RABBIT SAID THEY MUST CHOOSE WHO WOULD BE "IT" 147 MR. 'POSSUM HAD TO PUT ON THE HANDKERCHIEF AND DO MORE EXERCISING THAN ANY OF THEM 149 WOULD FIND IT ON THE MANTEL-SHELF OR PERHAPS ON MR. CROW'S BALD HEAD 152 MR. 'POSSUM SAID HE HADN'T MEANT ANYTHING AT ALL BY WHAT HE HAD SAID ABOUT THE STORY 162 AND SO THIS CAT GREW RICH AND FAT 164 HIS CLERKS 167 A SOLEMN LOOK WAS IN HIS FACE 168 QUOTH HE, "MY PRIDE IS SATISFIED; THIS KINGDOM BUSINESS DOES NOT PAY" 171 AUNT MELISSY HAD ARRANGED A BUNDLE FOR UNCLE SILAS, AND SHE HAD FIXED UP THE HIRED MAN TOO 179 DIDN'T LOOK AS IF SHE BELONGED TO THE REST OF OUR CROWD 181 THE BALLOON WENT OVER THE WIDE BLUE WATER JUST AFTER IT GOT OUR FAMILY 184 MR. TURTLE SAID THAT WHAT MR. 'POSSUM HAD TOLD THEM WAS TRUE 189 ONE DAY MR. CROW FOUND HE WAS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL OF EVERYTHING 195 THEN MR. 'COON SLAMMED HIS DOOR 199 MR. 'POSSUM SAID NOT TO MOVE, THAT HE WOULD GO AFTER A PIECE OF WOOD 201 HE WOULD SMOKE IN THE SUN WHEN THE MORNINGS WERE FAIR 203 WITH A LOOK AND A SIGH THEY WOULD STAND AND BEHOLD 204 THE TASTIEST PASTRY THAT EVER WAS KNOWN 205 THEN TO STIR AND TO BAKE HE BEGAN RIGHT AWAY 206 THE GREEDY OLD RAVEN, BUT GREEDY NO MORE 208 LOOKED STRAIGHT AT MR. 'POSSUM AND SAID, "WHAT WAS THAT YOU WERE CHEWING JUST NOW?" 211 THEY WENT ALONG, SAYING WHAT A NICE MAN THEY THOUGHT MR. BEAR WAS 224 MR. BEAR MUST HAVE BEEN VERY TIRED AND GONE TO SLEEP RIGHT WHERE HE WAS 226 MR. 'COON SCRATCHED HIS BACK AGAINST A LITTLE BUSH 234 MR. RABBIT THANKED HIM FROM ACROSS THE RIVER 237 ONE SAID IT WAS ONE WAY AND THE OTHER THE OTHER WAY 247 MR. CROW DECIDED TO THIN OUT A FEW OF JACK RABBIT'S THINGS 251 MR. CROW WAS ALMOST AFRAID TO BRING ON THE SALAD 255 JACK RABBIT CAPERED AND LAUGHED ALL THE WAY HOME 259 TOOK HER PARASOL AND HER RETICULE AND A CAN OF BERRIES, AND STARTED 265 AND HE MADE SOME STRIPES, TOO--MOSTLY ON TOP OF THE STOVE 267 LITTLE JACK KNEW PERFECTLY WELL THAT SHE WASN'T AT ALL PLEASED 269 PROMISED NEVER TO DISOBEY HIS MOTHER AGAIN 271 AND HE TASTED OF THAT A LITTLE, TOO 278 MR. 'POSSUM LEANED HIS BACK AGAINST A TREE AND READ HIMSELF TO SLEEP 280 SO MR. 'POSSUM PROMISED, AND MR. 'COON UNTIED HIM 282 "AND WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY SAW?" 284