The Adventures of Prickly Porky, Illustrated
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Children's book, first published in 1916, with six black-and-white illustrations. According to Wikipedia: "Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965). Born in Sandwich, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, he was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Thornton Waldo Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for daily columns in newspapers."
Thornton Burgess
Thornton Waldo Burgess, naturalist and conservationist, loved the beauty of nature and its living creature so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for daily columns in newspapers.
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The Adventures of Prickly Porky, Illustrated - Thornton Burgess
THE ADVENTURES OF PRICKLY PORKY BY THORNTON W. BURGESS
Published by Seltzer Books
established in 1974, now offering over 14,000 books
feedback welcome: seltzer@seltzerbooks.com
Thornton Burgess children's stories from Seltzer Books:
Mother West Wind Why
Stories
Mother West Wind Where
Stories
Mother West Wind's Children
Bowser The Hound
Lightfoot The Deer
The Adventures Of Grandfather Frog
The Adventures Of Unc' Billy Possum
The Adventures Of Prickly Porky
The Adventures Of Paddy Beaver
The Adventures Of Old Mr. Toad
The Adventures Of Jimmy Skunk, A Bedtime Story
With Illustrations by HARRISON CADY
BOSTON, LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, 1916
I. HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL MAKES A FIND
II. THE STRANGER FROM THE NORTH
III. PRICKLY PORKY MAKES FRIENDS
IV. PETER RABBIT HAS SOME STARTLING NEWS
V. PETER RABBIT TELLS HIS STORY
VI. PETER HAS TO TELL HIS STORY MANY TIMES
VII. JIMMY SKUNK CALLS ON PRICKLY PORK
VIII. PRICKLY PORKY NEARLY CHOKES
IX. JIMMY SKUNK AND UNC' BILLY POSSUM TELL DIFFERENT STORIES
X. UNC' BILLY POSSUM TELLS JIMMY SKUNK A SECRET
XI. WHAT HAPPENED TO REDDY FOX
XII. WHAT REDDY FOX SAW AND DID
XIII. REDDY FOX IS VERY MISERABLE
XIV. REDDY FOX TRIES TO KEEP OUT OF SIGHT
XV. OLD GRANNY FOX INVESTIGATES
XVI. OLD GRANNY FOX LOSES HER DIGNITY
XVII. GRANNY FOX CATCHES PETER RABBIT
XVIII. A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED
XIX. JIMMY SKUNK TAKES WORD TO MRS. PETER
XX. A PLOT TO FRIGHTEN OLD MAN COYOTE
XXI. SAMMY JAY DELIVERS HIS MESSAGE
XXII. OLD MAN COYOTE LOSES HIS APPETITE
XXIII. BUSTER BEAR GIVES IT ALL AWAY
I HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL MAKES A FIND
HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL had had a wonderful day. He had found some big chestnut-trees that he had never seen before, and which promised to give him all the nuts he would want for all the next winter. Now he was thinking of going home, for it was getting late in the afternoon. He looked out across the open field where Mr. Goshawk had nearly caught him that morning. His home was on the other side.
It's a long way 'round,
said Happy Jack to himself, but it is best to be safe and sure.
So Happy Jack started on his long journey around the open field. Now, Happy Jack's eyes are bright, and there is very little that Happy Jack does not see. So, as he was jumping from one tree to another, he spied something down on the ground which excited his curiosity.
I must stop and see what that is,
said Happy Jack. So down the tree he ran, and in a few minutes he had found the queer thing, which had caught his eyes. It was smooth and black and white, and at one end it was very sharp with a tiny little barb. Happy Jack found it out by pricking himself with it.
Ooch,
he cried, and dropped the queer thing. Pretty soon he noticed there were a lot more on the ground.
I wonder what they are,
said Happy Jack. They don't grow, for they haven't any roots. They are not thorns, for there is no plant from which they could come. They are not alive, so what can they be?
Now, Happy Jack's eyes are bright, but sometimes he doesn't use them to the very best advantage. He was so busy examining the queer things on the ground that he never once thought to look up in the tops of the trees. If he had, perhaps he would not have been so much puzzled. As it was he just gathered up three or four of the queer things and started on again. On the way he met Peter Rabbit and showed Peter what he had. Now, you know Peter Rabbit is very curious. He just couldn't sit still, but must scamper over to the place Happy Jack Squirrel told him about.
You'd better be careful, Peter Rabbit; they're very sharp,
shouted Happy Jack.
But as usual, Peter was in too much of a hurry to heed what was said to him. Lipperty-lipperty-lip, lipperty-lipperty-lip, went Peter Rabbit through the woods, as fast as his long legs would take him. Then suddenly he squealed and sat down to nurse one of his feet. But he was up again in a flash with another squeal louder than before. Peter Rabbit had found the queer things that Happy Jack Squirrel had told him about. One was sticking in his foot, and one was in the white patch on the seat of his trousers.
II THE STRANGER FROM THE NORTH
THE Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind were excited. Yes, Sir, they certainly were