The Animal Story Book - The Original Classic Edition. Lang Andrew
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CONTENTS
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'Tom': an Adventure in the Life of a Bear in Paris 1
Sai the Panther 14
The Buzzard and the Priest 25
Cowper and his Hares 30
A Rat Tale 34
Snake Stories 43
What Elephants can Do 50
The Dog of Montargis 56
How a Beaver builds his House 64
The War Horse of Alexander 68
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Stories about Bears 71
Stories about Ants 82
The Taming of an Otter 88
The Story of Androcles and the Lion 91
Monsieur Dumas and his Beasts 99
The Adventures of Pyramus 154
The Story of a Weasel 160
Stories about Wolves 163
Two Highland Dogs 174
Monkey Tricks and Sally at the Zoo 191
How the Cayman was killed 194
The Story of Fido 200
Beasts Besieged 205
Mr. Gully 209
Stories from Pliny 213
The Strange History of Cagnotte 215
Still Waters Run Deep; or, the Dancing Dog 219
Theo and his Horses: Jane, Betsy, and Blanche 225
Madame Theophile and the Parrot 231
The Battle of the Mullets and the Dolphins 233
Monkey Stories 237
Eccentric Bird Builders 245
The Ship of the Desert 248
Hame, hame, hame, where I fain wad be 253
Nests for Dinner 257
Fire-eating Djijam 259
The Story of the Dog Oscar 264
Dolphins at Play 274
The Starling of Segringen 278
Grateful Dogs 280
Gazelle 282
Cockatoo Stories 289
The Otter who was reared by a Cat 292
Stories about Lions 295
Builders and Weavers 307
[xii]More Faithful than Favoured 310
Dolphins, Turtles, and Cod 316
More about Elephants 321
Bungey 329
Lions and their Ways 333
The History of Jacko I. 338
Signora and Lori 348
Of the Linnet, Popinjay, or Parrot, and other Birds that can Speak 351
Patch and the Chickens 354
The Fierce Falcon 356
Mr. Bolt, the Scotch Terrier 360
A Raven's Funeral 364
A Strange Tiger 368
Halcyons and their Biographers 373
The Story of a Frog 375
The Woodpecker Tapping on the Hollow Oak Tree 384
Dogs Over the Water 387
The Capocier and his Mate 394
Owls and Marmots 396
Eagles' Nests 399
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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Tom is invited to the Ball 3
'The Minuet was Tom's greatest Triumph' 9
Tom discovered in the Box 12
'They at last all took hold of his Tail' 16
Terror of the Orang-outang at Sai 17
Sai has to take a Pill 21
The Cats no match for the Buzzard 27
The Buzzard carries off Hat and Wig 28
'Seeing such a number of Rats, he left his Horses and ran for his Life' 37
The Rats in the Larder 41
The Baron kills the Snake 44
The Baron slays the Horned Snake 46
How the Indians make the Horned Snake disgorge his Dinner 48
The Elephant helps the Gardener 53
De Narsac recognises his Friend's Dog 57
The Dog flies at Macaire in the presence of the King 61
The Baron kills the Bear 75
The Grizzly 79
Androcles in the Lion's Cave 93
Androcles in the Arena 97
'Monsieur Dumas, may I accommodate you with my Monkey and my Parrot?' 107
The Auvergnat and his Monkey 111
The Last of the Laidmanoirs and Mademoiselle Desgarcins 120
Dumas arrives at Stora with his Vulture 127
'It's a regular Kennel' 131
Jugurtha becomes Diogenes 135
Pritchard and the Hens 142
'Pritchard reappeared next moment with a Hare in his Mouth'145
Cartouche outwits Pyramus 156
Mademoiselle de Laistre and her Weasel 161