The Adventures of Bob White
By Thornton W. Burgess and Harrison Cady
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The Adventures of Bob White - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of
Bob White
There he discovered the lost little Bob and talked with him. F
RONTISPIECE
. See page 71.
The Adventures of
Bob White
THORNTON W. BURGESS
Illustrated by Harrison Cady
PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE
THORNTON W. BURGESS SOCIETY,
SANDWICH, MASSACHUSETTS
BY
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
MINEOLA, NEW YORK
DOVER CHILDREN’S THRIFT CLASSICS
EDITOR OF THIS VOLUME: JANET BAINE KOPITO
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2011 in association with the Thornton Burgess Society, Sandwich, Massachusetts, who have provided a new Introduction, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, in 1919.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo), 1874–1965.
The adventures of Bob White / Thornton W. Burgess ; illustrated by Harrison Cady. — Dover ed.
p. cm. — (Dover children’s thrift classics)
Summary: Bob White is a busy bird with many friends, including Farmer Brown’s boy, who tries to protect Bob and his wife when a hunter arrives.
ISBN-13: 978-0-486-48109-8
ISBN-10: 0-486-48109-3
[1. Human-animal relationships—Fiction. 2. Northern bobwhite— Fiction. 3. Birds—Fiction. 4. Animals—Fiction.] I. Cady, Harrison, 1877–1970 ill. II. Title.
PZ7.B917Aaam 2011
[E]—dc22
2011004939
Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation
48109301
www.doverpublications.com
Introduction to the Dover Edition
Over the years, Thornton W. Burgess wrote fourteen books about birds, or featuring birds as his main characters. His love of birds and concern for their welfare is manifest in his activities as a naturalist. In the early twentieth century, the famed illustrator Harrison Cady introduced Burgess to Moody B. Gates, the editor of People’s Home Journal.
This meeting led to the production of a monthly column in which Burgess wrote stories about the natural world that were both entertaining and instructional. The magazine titled this column The Green Meadow Club.
Membership in the club was open to any boy or girl who pledged to be kind to birds and animals and protect them from harm. The club was an immediate success and continued to function for twelve years.
During World War I, 1917 to 1918, Burgess used the club to campaign for the establishment of bird sanctuaries because of the value of birds in controlling insect pests. This, in turn, increased food production for the war effort. Newspapers across the country that featured Burgess’s Bedtime Story
column also took up this cause and recruited members for a Bedtime Stories Club. Two hundred thousand children joined these clubs and helped promote the establishment of nearly four thousand bird sanctuaries encompassing over 900,000 acres.
Thornton Burgess defined the role of conservation as follows: to re-establish and maintain nature’s fine balance among all living things and to hold as a sacred trust the obligation to make only the best possible use of natural resources, to the end that the inheritance we of today have received from the past may be passed on unimpaired, even improved, to future generations.
For his efforts to protect birds and animals, Burgess was awarded the Wildlife Protection Fund Gold Medal at the 1919 annual meeting of the New York Zoological Society. That same year, The Adventures of Bob White appeared on the bookshelves. It tells the story of how Mr. and Mrs. Bob White struggled to rear their family. Like many other Burgess books, it was adapted from a series of short stories that were printed through the Associated Newspapers syndicate from September through October of 1915. The book was reprinted in Great Britain in 1940; it was translated into Japanese in 1969 as Uzura No Bob No Boken.
Gene Schott
Director
The Thornton W. Burgess Society
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Contents
List of Illustrations
There he discovered the lost little Bob and talked with him
Hello! Here comes Old Man Coyote
Boo!
said Jimmy, and Peter nearly jumped out of his skin
"Oh, Mrs. Peter, do, do be careful where you