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