CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. WHERE GRANDFATHER FROG GOT HIS BIG MOUTH 1 II. WHERE MISER THE TRADE RAT FIRST SET UP SHOP ... Read more

CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. WHERE GRANDFATHER FROG GOT HIS BIG MOUTH 1 II. WHERE MISER THE TRADE RAT FIRST SET UP SHOP 17 III. WHERE YAP-YAP THE PRAIRIE DOG USED HIS WITS 31 IV. WHERE YELLOW-WING GOT HIS LIKING FOR THE GROUND 47 V. WHERE LITTLE CHIEF LEARNED TO MAKE HAY 61 VI. WHERE GLUTTON THE WOLVERINE GOT HIS NAME 77 VII. WHERE OLD MRS. 'GATOR MADE THE FIRST INCUBATOR 91 VIII. WHERE MR. QUACK GOT HIS WEBBED FEET 107 IX. WHERE THUNDERFOOT THE BISON GOT HIS HUMP 123 X. WHERE LIMBERHEELS GOT HIS LONG TAIL 139 XI. WHERE OLD MR. GOBBLER GOT THE STRUTTING HABIT 155 XII. WHERE SEEK-SEEK GOT HIS PRETTY COAT 169 XIII. WHERE OLD MR. OSPREY LEARNED TO FISH 185 XIV. WHERE OLD MR. BOB-CAT LEFT HIS HONOR 199 XV. WHERE DIPPY THE LOON GOT THE NAME OF BEING CRAZY 213 XVI. WHERE BIG-HORN GOT HIS CURVED HORNS 229 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE THEN THERE WAS A CRASH, AND EVERYBODY'S EYES FLEW OPEN _FRONTISPIECE_ LITTLE CHIEF'S FATHER TAUGHT HIM HOW TO MAKE HAY 74 PETER NOTICED THOSE FEET THE FIRST TIME HE MET MR. AND MRS. QUACK 122 DON'T CALL ME STRIPED CHIPMUNK, AND DON'T CALL ME GOPHER! SAID HE 170MOTHER WEST WIND WHERE STORIESIWHERE GRANDFATHER FROG GOT HIS BIG MOUTHEverybody knows that Grandfather Frog has a big mouth. Of course! Itwouldn't be possible to look him straight in the face and not know thathe has a big mouth. In fact, about all you see when you look GrandfatherFrog full in the face are his great big mouth and two great big gogglyeyes. He seems then to be all mouth and eyes.Anyway, that is what Peter Rabbit says. Peter never will forget thefirst time he saw Grandfather Frog. Peter was very young then. He hadrun away from home to see the Great World, and in the course of hiswanderings he came to the Smiling Pool. Never before had he seen so muchwater. The most water he had ever seen before was a little puddle in theLone Little Path. So when Peter, who was only half grown then, hoppedout on the bank of the Smiling Pool and saw it dimpling and smiling inthe sunshine, he thought it the most wonderful thing he ever had seen.The truth is that in those days Peter was in the habit of thinkingeverything he saw for the first time the most wonderful thing yet, andas he was continually seeing new things, and as his eyes always nearlypopped out of his head whenever he saw something new, it is a wonderthat he didn't become pop-eyed.Peter stared and stared at the Smiling Pool, and little by little hebegan to see other things. First he noticed the bulrushes growing withtheir feet in the water. They looked to him like giant grass, and hebegan to be a little fearful lest this should prove to be a sort ofmagic place--a place of giants. Then he noticed the lily-pads, and hestared very hard at these. They looked like growing things, and yet theyseemed to be floating right on top of the water. It wasn't until a MerryLittle Breeze came along and turned the edge of one up so that Peter sawthe long stem running down in the water out of sight, that he was ableto understand how those lily-pads could be growing there. He was stillstaring at those lily-pads when a great deep voice said:Chug-a-rum! Chug-a-rum! Don't you know it isn't polite to stare atpeople?That voice was so unexpected and so deep that Peter was startled. Hejumped, started to run, then stopped. He wanted to run, but curiositywouldn't let him. Less