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Close on His Heels
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About the Ash250
About Topiaries99
A Brave Answer43
A Brave Lad309
A Chinese Solomon15
A Generous Act99
A Gentle Donkey378, 390, 398, 402, 410
A Good Comrade159
A Hasty Judgment375
A Humorous Punishment70
A Hundred Years Ago15, 54, 84, 107, 155, 179, 211, 250, 282, 307, 347
A Modern Wizard394
An Artful Jack162
An Eastern Puzzle355
Anecdotes,6, 30, 34, 43, 51, 66, 147, 179, 190, 218, 227, 235, 323, 341, 355, 371, 378, 382, 395, 407
An Intruder269
A Pincushion Factory91
Apples or Thistles?267
A Seasonable Answer11
A Silent Reproof331
A Story of the Unforeseen190
'As You Please'277
A Turkey's Costly Diet302
Average395
'A Will of Her Own'279
A Wonderful Weighing Machine203
Barnacles and Geese238
'Billikins'239
Catching Birds under Water323
Caught by a Tree218
Chinese Physic182
Clothed in Chatterbox348
Conquered by Love214
Conscience and the China Figures178
Counting238
Crébillon and the Rat291
Crocodiles in Central Africa75
Crowded Out403
Curious Granaries292
Cutting It Down278
Elephants attacking a Granary46
Ethel's Golden Offering22
Eva's Kitten333
Faithful to Duty.83
Famous Roses326
Feathered Friendship53
Flowers and Colours262
Flowers of the Night118
Fred's New World62
Forgetful Fanny26
Gas-light Insect-hunting395
Glimpses of Hedgehog Life141
Graham's Last Practical Joke162
Grey-skin's Adventures221
Hare versus Pheasant214
Haydn's Drum34
His Master's Hat15
How Gordon Kept Shop238
How the Arabs Bake their Bread357
How to Obtain Food139
Huge Birds403
In Harvard Museum350
Iron-smelting in India285
Jess397
Jock's Collie351
Long Lived83
Long Tom's Gratitude13
Marvels of Man's Making2, 42, 78, 126, 148, 187, 218, 243, 282, 316, 405
Mary's Reward77
May Day175
Movable Roofs253
'Mr. Harold'349
Muriel's First Patient327
Not Afraid407
Not Guilty251
Now237
Old Oxford Castle230
Old Sarum342
Olive and the Bees109
One Thing at a Time175
Peeps into Nature's Nurseries11, 37, 59, 75, 100, 131, 134, 164, 203, 235, 275, 299, 339, 371
Ping-Kwe's Downfall303
Plants with Signs347
Ploughing in Syria315
Puzzlers for Wise Heads15, 51, 75, 115, 147, 179, 214, 286, 323, 371, 395
Rosie165
Round the Camp-fire19, 26, 34, 66, 82, 98, 130, 154, 194, 205, 226, 258, 338, 354, 386
Saved by a Gipsy243
Sir Ralph Abercromby174
Sowing and Reaping118, 123
Spider Runners382
Stories from Africa30, 46, 58, 90 106, 138, 170, 210, 242, 266, 290, 330, 362
Strange Nesting-places324
Tabby's Ghost389
Taking It Literally132
Teaching Him a Lesson410
Telegraph Wires in Central Africa164
The Arbalist, or Crossbow212
The Barberry147
The Brave Countess379
The Broken Promise365
The Captain's Pudding258
The Count and the Dove254
The Cow-waggon363
The Dead Watch115
The Duck-billed Platypus181
The Duke's Ruse299
The First Tea159
The Force of Labour390
The Giant of the Treasure Caves6, 10, 22, 30, 38, 47, 50, 63, 70, 74, 87, 94, 102, 110, 114, 123, 134, 142, 146, 157, 166, 172, 182, 186, 198, 202, 214, 222, 230, 234, 246, 254, 262, 270, 274, 286, 294, 298, 310, 314, 322, 334, 342, 346, 358, 367, 370, 382
The Groaning Tree of Baddesley235
The Honest Sailor122
The Hoof-mark on the Wall171
The Kestrel's Eggs196
The King of Persia396
The Ladybird and the Caterpillar306
The Last Time3
The Leopard's Looking-glass380
The Little Old Woman373
Themistocles and the Greek Generals331
The Misunderstood Poets286
The Moles and the Mountain54
The Multiplication Table26
The Music of the Nations21, 51, 69, 115, 147, 172, 195, 229, 261, 292, 324, 380
The New Zealand Glow-worm334
The Penguin277
The Picture-cleaners139
The Policeman's Joke301
The Prairie Dog61
The Ptarmigan and Pine Marten66
The Reward of a Genius142, 151
The Riddle of the Year155
The Rosemont Grotto and the Petchaburg Caverns396
The Self-heal267
The Sensible Hare374
The Shadoofs and Draw-wheels of Egypt43
The Sloth93
The Soldier of Antigonus291
The Story of Rock-salt302
The Sugar Maple294
The Symbols of Japan214
The Timid Mouse348
The Trials of Leckinski306, 319
The Union Jack348
The Way to Command62
The Yak125
Think This Out222
'Those Horrid Boys'207
Too Much for the Whistle54
To the Rescue!261
True Happiness310
Umbrella Treason18
Union is Strength189
Waits166
Well Repaid355
Where there's a Will there's a Way387
Wild Animals in Captivity18