Front matter

Told at Twilight Stories

By JOHN BRECK

MOSTLY ABOUT NIBBLE THE BUNNY NIBBLE RABBIT MAKES MORE FRIENDS THE SINS OF SILVERTIP THE FOX TAD COON’S TRICKS THE WAVY TAILED WARRIOR TAD COON’S GREAT ADVENTURE THE BAD LITTLE OWLS THE JAY BIRD WHO WENT TAME

The hive had sent out a cloud of fighting bees to stand guard

Told at Twilight Stories

THE WAVY TAILED WARRIOR

by

John Breck

Book V

Illustrated by

William T. Andrews

Garden City New York

Doubleday, Page & Company

1923

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY THE ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

First Edition

CONTENTS

I. Stripes Turns a Trick on Tad Coon

II. The Sweetness of Harmony and Honey

III. Tommy Would A-Fishing Go

IV. A Compact Between Fishermen

V. Of the Tick in Tommy’s Pocket Which Wasn’t a Bug After All

VI. The Battle of the Potato Bugs

VII. The Birds Enlist in the War

VIII. The Battle of the Crook Tailed Snake

IX. The Secret of the Snake Guard

X. The Field Mice Protest

XI. War to the Tooth

XII. The Mice Defeat Themselves

XIII. Where, Oh Where, Is Tad Coon?

ILLUSTRATIONS

The hive had sent out a cloud of fighting bees to stand guard

Tommy fished and fished, but at first he did not get a single bite

Stripes battles with a big fish

Tommy takes off his “skin” to dry

Tad Coon finds a new kind of bug

When the moon came up there wasn’t a single tail stirring

Nibble takes the lady mouse to Doctor Muskrat

Tad Coon chased a couple of mice into a corn crib

The Wavy Tailed Warrior