The Little Folks of Animal Land - Paperback

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROWLER IN TROUBLE MEANWHILE the Bufkins twins were climbing all the trees in the garden to look for the birds they were sure they heard singing, but there was not a trace of them. Prowler thought it would be wise if Purra kept watch from the plum-tree while he stole softly up to the veranda to peek in the woodbine. When he came to the house and found it was only Barker that was causing the excitement, he sat down in disgust. Another tiresome end to a promising beginning. Then he happened to see the cakes through the pantry window, and he decided to go in for a drink of water. A pretty bowl stood on the small table. It was white, with a gold rose on it, but it was the contents that looked good to Prowler. He was just going to see if cocoanut always tasted the same, when he upset the bowl. But he never had to explain how, it happened, for just then his mother came into the kitchen and, before he had time to think, he was undressed, and put to bed up-stairs. Mrs. Bufkins could not bear anything more. THE NIGHTMARE Purra Plavs a Joke on Prowler THE NIGHTMARE iROWLER lav in his little white bed some time before he felt exactly sure just what had taken place. He could not remember that his mother's judgment had ever been so hasty before. Certainly, things didn't look now as if this were going to be much of a Saturday. But he wasn't a bit ill-tempered about it, and then, too, it helped some to know that out in the garden Purra was still watching for those birds, so he dropped off to sleep, with a smile on his face. When he looked up next he could not make a sound, for right over his bed Purra was swinging the very biggest bug he had ever seen. " Purra," he cried out, " drop that horrid thing out of the window! It is too big for us to handle...".