ILLUSTRATIONS

THE HOLLOW TREE AND DEEP WOODS PEOPLE

MAP OF THE HOLLOW TREE AND DEEP WOODS COUNTRY

GATHERING NICE PIECES OF WOOD

THE PANTRY IN THE HOLLOW TREE

"SLIPPED IN BEHIND HIM WHEN HE WENT INTO THE TENT"

"HE LOOKED SMILING AND GOOD-NATURED, AND I WENT OVER TO ASK HIM SOME QUESTIONS"

"GAVE ME AN EXTRA BIG SWING AND CRACK"

ALL AT ONCE HE HEARD A FIERCE BARK CLOSE BEHIND HIM

THEN I SUDDENLY FELT LIKE A SHOOTING-STAR

"THEN MR. DOG SAID, 'TELL ME ANOTHER'"

"AND DID ROLL OFF THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, SURE ENOUGH"

"I SET OUT FOR HOME WITHOUT WAITING TO SAY GOOD-BYE"

CAME CLATTERING DOWN RIGHT IN FRONT OF MR. DOG

SO THEN MR. DOG TRIED TO GET MR. 'POSSUM ON HIS SHOULDER

HE WAS AN OLD BACHELOR AND LIKED TO HAVE HIS OWN WAY

THEY SAW MR. CROW OUT IN THE YARD CUTTING WOOD FOR HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW

HAD TO STAY AT HOME AND PEEL POTATOES

LISTENED NOW AND THEN AT WIDOW CROW'S DOOR TO BE SURE SHE WAS ASLEEP

MR. 'POSSUM SAID HE'D JUST GET ON AND HOLD THE THINGS

MR. 'POSSUM AND MR. 'COON TRIED TO PUT UP THE STOVE

MR. FOX SAID HE DIDN'T HAVE MUCH TO DO FOR A FEW MINUTES AND HE'D ACT AS JUDGE

SAILING ALONG, JUST TOUCHING THE HIGHEST POINTS

AWAY WENT MR. TORTOISE, CLEAR OVER THE TOP RAIL

SET OUT FOR HOME BY A BACK WAY

TRIED TO SPLICE HIS PROPERTY BACK IN PLACE

GRANDFATHER WOULD LIGHT HIS PIPE AND THINK IT OVER

SET UP HIS EARS AND WENT BY, LICKETY-SPLIT

"'GLAD TO SEE YOU,' SAID KING LION; 'I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT HAVING A NICE RABBIT FOR BREAKFAST"

GOT AROUND THE TABLE AND BEGAN TO WORK

MR. 'POSSUM WANTED TO KNOW WHAT MR. RABBIT MEANT BY SPINNING THEIR TAILS

MR. DOG SAID HE HAD MADE A FEW SKETCHES

MR. 'POSSUM SAID IT MIGHT BE A GOOD ENOUGH STORY, BUT IT COULDN'T BE TRUE

SO THEN MR. RABBIT SAID THEY MUST CHOOSE WHO WOULD BE "IT"

MR. 'POSSUM HAD TO PUT ON THE HANDKERCHIEF AND DO MORE EXERCISING THAN ANY OF THEM

WOULD FIND IT ON THE MANTEL-SHELF OR PERHAPS ON MR. CROW'S BALD HEAD

MR. 'POSSUM SAID HE HADN'T MEANT ANYTHING AT ALL BY WHAT HE HAD SAID ABOUT THE STORY

AND SO THIS CAT GREW RICH AND FAT

HIS CLERKS

A SOLEMN LOOK WAS IN HIS FACE

QUOTH HE; "MY PRIDE IS SATISFIED; THIS KINGDOM BUSINESS DOES NOT PAY"

AUNT MELISSY HAD ARRANGED A BUNDLE FOR UNCLE SILAS, AND SHE HAD FIXED UP THE HIRED MAN TOO

DIDN'T LOOK AS IF SHE BELONGED TO THE REST OF OUR CROWD

THE BALLOON WENT OVER THE WIDE BLUE WATER JUST AFTER IT GOT OUR FAMILY

MR. TURTLE SAID THAT WHAT MR. 'POSSUM HAD TOLD THEM WAS TRUE

ONE DAY MR. CROW FOUND HE WAS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL OF EVERYTHING

THEN MR. COON SLAMMED HIS DOOR

MR. 'POSSUM SAID NOT TO MOVE, THAT HE WOULD GO AFTER A PIECE OF WOOD

HE WOULD SMOKE IN THE SUN WHEN THE MORNINGS WERE FAIR

WITH A LOOK AND A SIGH THEY WOULD STAND AND BEHOLD

THE TASTIEST PASTRY THAT EVER WAS KNOWN

THEN TO STIR AND TO BAKE HE BEGAN RIGHT AWAY

THE GREEDY OLD RAVEN, BUT GREEDY NO MORE

LOOKED STRAIGHT AT MR. 'POSSUM AND SAID, "WHAT WAS THAT YOU WERE CHEWING JUST NOW?"

THEY WENT ALONG, SAYING WHAT A NICE MAN THEY THOUGHT MR. BEAR WAS

MR. BEAR MUST HAVE BEEN VERY TIRED AND GONE TO SLEEP RIGHT WHERE HE WAS

MR. 'COON SCRATCHED HIS BACK AGAINST A LITTLE BUSH

MR. RABBIT THANKED HIM FROM ACROSS THE RIVER

ONE SAID IT WAS ONE WAY AND THE OTHER THE OTHER WAY

MR. CROW DECIDED TO THIN OUT A FEW OF JACK RABBIT'S THINGS

MR. CROW WAS ALMOST AFRAID TO BRING ON THE SALAD

JACK RABBIT CAPERED AND LAUGHED ALL THE WAY HOME

TOOK HER PARASOL AND HER RETICULE AND A CAN OF BERRIES, AND STARTED

AND HE MADE SOME STRIPES, TOO—MOSTLY ON TOP OF THE STOVE

LITTLE JACK KNEW PERFECTLY WELL THAT SHE WASN'T AT ALL PLEASED

PROMISED NEVER TO DISOBEY HIS MOTHER AGAIN

AND HE TASTED OF THAT A LITTLE, TOO

MR. 'POSSUM LEANED HIS BACK AGAINST A TREE AND READ HIMSELF TO SLEEP

SO MR. 'POSSUM PROMISED, AND MR. 'COON UNTIED HIM

"AND WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY SAW?"