The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book

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Paine Albert Bigelow. The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book

TO FRIENDS OLD AND NEW

THE FIRST SNOWED-IN STORY

MR. DOG AT THE CIRCUS

THE SECOND SNOWED-IN STORY

THE WIDOW CROW'S BOARDING-HOUSE

THE FINDING OF THE HOLLOW TREE

THE THIRD SNOWED-IN STORY

THE FOURTH SNOWED-IN STORY

THE "SNOWED-IN" LITERARY CLUB

THE "SNOWED-IN" LITERARY CLUB – Part II

THE DISCONTENTED FOX

MR. 'POSSUM'S GREAT STORY

THE BARK OF OLD HUNGRY-WOLF

AN EARLY SPRING CALL ON ON MR. BEAR

MR. CROW'S GARDEN

WHEN JACK RABBIT WAS A LITTLE BOY

A HOLLOW TREE PICNIC

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I wonder if you have ever heard a story which begins like this: "Once upon a time, in the far depths of the Big Deep Woods, there was a Big Hollow Tree with three hollow branches. In one of these there lived a 'Coon, in another a 'Possum, and in the third a Big Black Crow."

That was the way the first story began in a book which told about the Hollow Tree People and their friends of the Big Deep Woods who used to visit them, and how they all used to sit around the table, or by the fire, in the parlor-room down-stairs, where they kept most of their things, and ate and talked and had good times together, just like folk.1

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"So Mr. Dog came over and untied my hands, for he said he could tie them again before Mr. Man came back, because he knew Mr. Man hadn't found that hammer yet.

"'You can't get loose with just your hands untied, can you?' he said.

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