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Tbe Big Hackberry in the Lonesome Road 68 



At Christmas Time . 69 



The Big Hackberry with His New Friends 80 



ITie Wheat Crop Requires Fast and Heavy Work .... 81 



Foot Prints of the Big Prairie Rooster 84 



It was a Hard Life for Old Dobbin in tlie Old Days ... 85 



TTie Big Tractors Do It Easier Now 88 



After the Heavy Work is Over 89 



"And He Asked Me if I Had Ever Seen Snow" .... 94 



"I Had a Lot of Fun Last Night" 95 



Peter Rabbit Needs to Watch this Pair Constantly ... 98 



Mallard Duck — Contented but Suspicious 99 



Mallard Duck Goes to His Feeding Grounds 100 



Jerry Muskrat's Home 101 



Winter 106 



Spring 107 



About Ready for the Apple Show 110 



Neglect Ill 



Cockle Burr Went Home with Reddy Fox 120 



Reddy Fox Travels Across Country 121 



Where Bobby Coon Goes Fishing 124 



Cockle Burr in His Airplane 125 



An Airplane View of the Big Farm 132 



Cockle Burr and Lieut. Bob Make a Landing 133 



The View from Jim Crow's Front Door 138 



The Robber and the Gold 139 



The Old Rail Fence 146 



The Big Party 147 



The Villain of the Wheat and the Corn Fields 150 



Where the Villain was First Discovered 151 



The Results of His Work 154 



His Winter Home 155 



His Various Disguises ^ 158 



His Victims 159 



The Battle Ground 162 



All Photogra/phs by the Author 



