Hollow Tree Nights and Days

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Paine Albert Bigelow. Hollow Tree Nights and Days

EXPLANATION OF THE NEW MAP

GREETINGS FROM THE STORY TELLER AND THE ARTIST

LITTLE JACK RABBIT AND BUNTY BUN

MR. 'POSSUM'S SICK SPELL

MR. TURTLE'S FLYING ADVENTURE

THE DEEP WOODS ELOPEMENT

COUSIN REDFIELD AND THE MOLASSES

IN MR. MAN'S CAR

MR. 'POSSUM'S CAR

MR. BEAR'S EARLY SPRING CALL

HOW MR. 'POSSUM'S TAIL BECAME BARE

A DEEP WOODS WAR

MR. CROW AND THE WHITEWASH

MR. 'COON'S STAR STORY

MR. RABBIT'S STAR STORY

MR. CROW'S STAR STORY

MR. JACK RABBIT BRINGS A FRIEND

MR. RABBIT'S WEDDING

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Once upon a time, ever so long ago, the Story Teller told the Little Lady all about the 'Coon and 'Possum and the Old Black Crow who lived in three hollow branches of a Big Hollow Tree that stood in the far depths of the Big Deep Woods. The Crow and 'Coon and 'Possum were great friends and used to meet in the big family room down-stairs and have plenty of good things to eat, and then sit by the fire and smoke and tell stories, and sometimes they would invite the other Deep Woods people, like Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Turtle and the rest, and even Mr. Dog, after they became friends with him, though Mr. Dog did not really live in the Deep Woods, but only on the edge of it, with Mr. Man.

The Hollow Tree people never did get to be friends with Mr. Man. They liked to watch him, sometimes, from a distance, and would borrow things from him when he wasn't at home, but they never just felt like calling on him or asking him to the Hollow Tree. You see, Mr. Man really belonged to one world and the Hollow Tree people belonged to another, and something is always likely to happen when any one, even an author, goes to mixing up worlds.

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"And sure enough, I was! Looking at Bunty Bun and pitying her, I had made a miss-dip, and everybody was looking at me; and J. Hickory Whack said, in the most awful voice, 'Jack Rabbit, you come here, at once!'"

Mr. Rabbit said he could hardly get to Hickory Whack's desk, he was so weak in the knees, and when Mr. Whack had asked him what he had meant by such actions he had been almost too feeble to speak.

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