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Excerpt from The Boy Scouts in a Trapper's CampMan or boy is never so true to himself as when in intimate contact with nature. Ad ventures such as herein described may not fall to your lot, oh, boy reader, but be assured that whenever you heed the call of the Red Gods and hit the long trail you will find adventure of a degree awaiting you, and you will return stronger physically and mentally for having come in closer contact with the elemental...

Excerpt from Mother West Wind How StoriesPeter rubbed the back of his neck, which ached because he had tipped his head back so long. Then he gave a little Sigh.I wonder what it seems like to be able to ¿y like that, said he out loud, a way he sometimes has.Are you envious? Asked a voice so close to him that Peter jumped. There was Sammy Jay Sitting in a little tree just over his head.No!' snapped Peter, for it made him a wee bit cross to be so...

The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk is another in the long list children's books by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, Jimmy Skunk has encounters with Reddy Fox, Peter Rabbit, Unc' Billy Possum and other acquaintances of his in the Green Meadows and Green Forest. Along the way, we learn some of the habits of Jimmy and his friends and we learn little lessons about life such as the importance of always keeping one's temper, keepin...

The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk is another in the long list children's books by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, Jimmy Skunk has encounters with Reddy Fox, Peter Rabbit, Unc' Billy Possum and other acquaintances of his in the Green Meadows and Green Forest. Along the way, we learn some of the habits of Jimmy and his friends and we learn little lessons about life such as the importance of always keeping one's temper, keepin...

Excerpt from The Burgess Flower Book for ChildrenBecause of the story method of treatment, and also because of the limited vocabulary of the little child, the use of scientific names and even the names of most Of the parts of plants and ¿owers, save in the appendix for older people, has been avoided. This necessarily prevents that accuracy of description which the adult may desire. The vast number of ¿owers, which is America's rich heritage, m...

Excerpt from The Boy Scouts: On Lost TrailThose who have read The Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp, the first book in this series, will need no introduction to most of the char actera of the present volume. Four of them are members of Dr. Merriam's famous vaca tion school in the deep woods, a camp con ducted under Boy Scout law, but with tribes instead of patrols, each tribe having as chief a Scout of the first class. Three of them were principal ...

Many of the forest's creatures were watching this strange new creature -- this porcupine! -- when Bowser the Hound caught wind of the scene."Bow, wow, wow!" shouted Bowser in his deepest voice.Everybody ran! -- everybody but the porcupine. He kept on coming down the tree just the same."I'll teach that fellow a lesson, " said Bowser to himself. "I'll shake him, and shake him and shake him until he hasn't any breath left."Bowser made a rush at h...

Peter Rabbit had stretched out wearily on a tiny sunning-bank in the farthest corner of the Old Pasture when a tiny rustle behind him made him jump to his feet with his heart in his mouth. When he looked around he saw two of the softest, gentlest eyes in the world peeping at him from behind a big fern.Later, he told Tommy Tit all about the two soft, gentle eyes he had seen peeping at him from behind a big fern, and how he wanted to know who th...

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Each story explains how Old Mother Nature gives special attention to each creature's needs -- where Grandfather Frog got his big mouth, for example, and where Mr. Quack the duck got his webbed feet. Burgess sets his tales "when the world was young, " back when Peter Rabbit's "great-great-ever-so-great grandfather" was a young hopper, and Old Mother Nature still had some work to do on basic designs. She sees that a duck needs webbed feet to swi...

At the edge of the old briar-patch sits Peter Rabbit -- staring into the sky, his head tipped so far back it makes his neck ache!Up in the sky, a black speck sails across the snowy white face of a cloud. How could that little speck be alive, way up there? But Peter knows it is -- and he knows who it is: King Eagle, who, by and by, disappears over the Great Mountain. Peter rubs the back of his aching neck. Then he gives a little sigh."I wonder ...

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Work, work all the night While the stars are shining bright, Work, work all the day -- I've got no time to play!Everyone is curious! Farmer Brown's boy cannot figure it out. Then Peter Rabbit and Jerry Muskrat set their minds to the problem and try to wrestle it to the ground. What is happening in the peaceful meadow where the stream flowed so quietly before -- and what does Paddy Beaver have to do with it?Thornton W. Burgess, famous for his t...

Grandfather Frog has a hard time keeping a straight face -- for Buster Bear has outsmarted that rash Little Joe Otter! But then along comes Farmer Brown's boy, and --'Twas just a sudden odd surprise Made Farmer Brown's boy's hair to rise!And now who's outsmarting whom?Readers will take joy as their familiar friends -- Billy Mink, Blacky the Crow, Jerry Muskrat, and Sammy Jay -- tangle and cavort in the magical woodland of Thornton Burgess.

Old Mother West Wind sweeps across the woods and into the meadow, and opens her bag full of the Merry Little Breezes -- who quickly spin and fly around all their animal friends, including Peter Rabbit, Jimmy Skunk, Bobby Coon and Johnny Chuck.Then one shakes Mr. Bob White."Wake up!" says the willful little Breeze. "Reddy Fox and Hooty the Owl are coming to the Brown Pasture to gobble up you and Mrs. Bob White and all the little Bob Whites!

I never yet saw a young Fox who didn't think he knew all there is to know -- and you're just like the rest!"Old Granny Fox says this to Reddy Fox, who thinks it will be as easy as pie to steal Farmer Brown's chickens by daylight and then elude Bowser the Hound.But in this entertaining tale of the winter woods, it turns out even wise Old Granny Fox can be caught napping!

Bang! Bang! Bang! Not a feather spare!" So go the guns ripping the air after poor Mrs. Quack! And now Mr. Quack has gone missing along the Big River -- and Peter Rabbit, try as he might, can think of no way to help. Then Sammy the Bluejay and Blacky the Crow arrive!

Who would have thought dropping a nut would cause so much trouble?No sooner does Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel go scampering down the tree than he finds himself in trouble with Chatterer, the Red Squirrel -- and then running for dear life -- away from Shadow the Weasel!Thornton Burgess's entertaining tales of wild nature have entertained children and adults alike for nearly a century.