ILLUSTRATIONS
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ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
IN WEASEL WOOD
He held himself with an air, his body arched, one broad white pad uplifted, his tail curved decorously Frontispiece
A FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING GO
The Green Toad slowly stretched himself. "THAT?" said he, "that's not French" 60
At the fifth stone—a bulky slanting one—he sighted the French Frog 60
SPINIPES, THE SAND WASP
An instant's pause to shift her grip, and she had pushed the grub within the entrance 162
"Take that—and that—and That," said Spinipes, and drove her sharp Sting home 162
THE GREAT GREEN GRASSHOPPER'S BAND
And the last thing Winnie remembers was the Great Green Grasshopper's Wife hurrying the little Skipjacks off to bed 279
ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT
SOMETHING ABOUT BATS
Natterer's Bat 17
Lesser Horseshoe Bat 19
The Noctule 20
The Noctule 21
Lesser Horseshoe Bat going to sleep 22
The Greater Horseshoe 23
Long-eared Bat 24
The Greater Horseshoe Bat hanging head downwards 25
The Pipistrelle 27
SOMETHING ABOUT TADOLES
Toad's Spawn 29
Frog's Spawn floating on the water 31
Frog's Spawn Quite Fresh 33
Frog's Spawn beginning to Grow 34
Frog's Spawn showing Young Tadpoles, &c. 35
Tadpoles getting like Frogs 36
Tadpoles full grown 39
A FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING GO
Passable 43
His Little Eyes were Starting from their Sockets 47
The Water Rat 48
The Salamander 51
The Natterjack 52
Have you Seen this Trick before 53
The French Frog 57
"I see a Natterjack" 58
"Fetch him," thundered the King Toad 59
Five Times He Tried 65
The Shrew Mouse 66
He Bristled with Apologies 67
The Green Toad 69
His Inside was Red Hot 70
He Lay as He had Fallen 71
"Ducks," whispered Bombinatrix 73
ANIMALS' NESTS
Four Moles' Nests Together 77
The Squirrel 79
The Harvest Mouse Nest 81
The Dormouse 83
A Dormouse's Nursery Nest 85
The Harvest Mouse 86
SOMETHING ABOUT BEETLES
The Stag-Beetle 91
The Stag-Beetle that I ran over 93
The Female Stag-Beetle 95
The Great Water Beetle 96
The Musk Beetle 97
The Cockchafer 98
The Churchyard Beetle 99
BUNNY RABBIT
Landed on his Back six feet below 103
It wasn't Mother after all 105
He Combed his Ears Out 106
He Watched and Heard the Awakening of the Wood 108
Berus the Adder 110
Lay full length, eyes closed 113
Bunny Rabbit Watched him out of Sight 116
A BUTTERFLY PAINT-BOX
The Brimstone Butterfly 118
The Red Admiral 119
The Purple Emperor 120
The Clifden Blue 121
The Swallow Tail Butterfly 122
The Black Pepper Moth 123
The Silver-washed Fritillary 124
TWO WONDERFUL WASPS
Spinipes' burrow opened up 128
Spinipes Bringing up a Grub 129
Spinipes Grub Feeding 131
Cocoon which Spinipes' Grubs make 132
The Little Beetle that Caterpillars turn into 133
Before and After the Thunderstorm 135
Crabro 136
Crabro Looking out of her hole 137
How the Cocoons Looked 138
One of the Crabro's Stores of Blue-Bottles 139
What the piece of Elm-bough looked like 140
One of the Cocoons of Crabro in Elm-bough 141
SPINIPES, THE SAND-WASP
The Sand Cliff splits the Old Gravel-Pit in two 144
First the Wild Bees, Red King, Black Queen 146
Down Dropped a Red King 147
"In Sand, Ma'am, in Sand" 148
"Well, call me when it comes" 149
Spinipes commenced to Dig in Earnest 151
"Good Hunting, Sister!" said the Ophion Fly 153
The Rose Chafer 155
Out flew the Bees 157
Hour after Hour she Toiled 158
The Lowest Chamber of the Shaft now held a precious thing 159
A Flabby, Green, Blackheaded Grub 160
Twelve Grubs in all she brought 163
She Sank five other Curving Shafts 167
PICTURES ON BUTTER-FLIES' WINGS
The Magpie Moth 171
The Emperor Moth 173
The Elephant Hawk Moth's Caterpillar 174
The Elephant Hawk Moth showing his Trunk 175
The Peacock Butterfly 176
The Mother Shipton Moth 177
A VERY WEE BEASTIE AND A VERY BIG ONE
The Common Shrewmouse 181
The Water Shrewmouse 183
The Pygmy Shrewmouse 184
How the Pygmy Coils Himself Up to Sleep 185
IN WEASEL WOOD
Again the Fox Cub was Puzzled 188
He Sank from his Hindquarters forward 191
The Stoat Tiptoed Towards Him 193
"My Plumed Tail! you wait till Squirrel grows" 195
Marten has seen you 197
"Perhaps you will be good enough to get higher up the tree" 201
It was another Badger 207
She came out full charge 209
And in due course of time, his wife 210
SHEEP IN WOLVES' CLOTHING
The Lobster Moth Caterpillar 213
The Spider on the Bramble Blossom 217
The Dragon in the Water-weed 219
The Lobster Moth Caterpillar, Angry 220
The Ichneumon Fly 221
The Puss Moth Caterpillar 223
The Giant Wood Wasp 225
THE BEASTIES' BEDTIME
The Queen Wasp in her Winter Sleep 227
Bill the Lizard 228
Toadums 229
Round Eye the Dormouse 230
Dormouse in his Winter Sleep 231
Prickles the Hedge Pig 233
The Hedge Pig in his Winter Sleep 234
Lesser Horseshoe Bat Asleep 235
THE BLUNDERS OF BARTIMÆUS
Bartimæus 237
He Headed Straight for the Water 239
The Bank Rose Steeply Over Him 241
Only one grass-blade stirred, but Tatters saw it 246
The Harvest Mouse stood up full length 251
The Harvest Mouse drew herself up indignant 253
"Weasels!" said the Meadow Mouse 254
"Don't rush!" the Pygmy screamed behind 257
His fortress, his own fortress had been breached 258
SOMETHING ABOUT A CHAMÆLEON
You can see his eye looking back over his shoulder 263
You can see his hands and feet 265
The Chamæleon 267
THE TRAIL OF NIMBLE BEASTS
Nuts Gnawed by Mice 269
The Weasel's Trail 271
Where the Weasel met the Mice 272
Where the Weasel met the Rook 274
Two Mouse Trails 275
The Fox's Footprints 276
THE GREAT GREEN GRASSHOPPER'S BAND
She Never went to Sleep at all 281
The Cricket was Sitting on the Hearthstone 283
The pair of them dropped 284
"I beg your pardon," said the Grasshopper's Wife 288
The Mole Cricket 291
The Field Cricket 292
The Wood Cricket 293
The First Note sent the Grasshopper's Wife's hind legs straight up 295
He had backed out of his hole 296
The Grasshopper's Wife reared herself up 297
THE PYGMY SHREW
The Woodmouse First 303
He took the Right-hand Surface run 305
He could now see and hear as well 306
His rival feinting, flicked his tail 308
The Grey Shrew Leant against the Trunk 309
With Tangled Tails and Rounded Straining Bodies 310
There they lay head to tail 311
The Field Voles 312
The Bat came to a halt and stared 313
The Pygmy climbed two inches up 314
Now one was on his back, now the other 315
The Mole plunged into the air 317