Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Ant ventures

Once upon a time there was an Ant sitting on a leaf to think. He was tired of working, and his mother had sent him out to hunt for a little green Worm to stow away in the larder, but he did not want to do even that.

Chapters

1. Part 1

Once upon a time there was an Ant sitting on a leaf to think. He was tired of working, and his mother had sent him out to hunt for a little green Worm to stow away in the larder...

2. Part 2

“Don’t tell me that!” cried the fuzzy, fussy Caterpillar. “The thing is unbelievable! Besides, did I not meet you on your long travel? There, sir, that proves you are soon going...

3. Part 3

It was the happiest trip on the water ever taken in the whole world, so they all thought. Sometimes the little boat would stick for a few minutes where something stopped it in i...

4. Part 4

At first he walked as far as he thought he ought to for the time, and looked about for a something or other that might make a good bed. There was a fine little clump of sweet fe...

5. Part 5

“Well,” said he, when he could stop laughing long enough to speak, “I’ll let you go without the whipping. You won’t need it, for, if Dr. Bug has prescribed that trip for you, yo...

6. Part 6

“That made me dream I was off on the big ocean in that black ship, and that I had that black hat, and looked mad as mad, and took my sword and waved it around my head, and holle...

7. Part 7

By and by, as he was crawling along over a blade and under a blade, and on the ground, and up a weed to a bridge across to another weed, and down that weed, he came plump out ov...

8. Part 8

She turned back to get her broom, but Anthony Ant bowed politely, and said, “Oh, do wait just a minute! I am not an agent for anything, and here is something free of charge to p...