CONTENTS 
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Buddy, Marylee, Uncle Jack, Fred, and Bess 
Discover Nature’s Treasures - - - - Frontispiece 
Preface ---------------- iii 
Uncle Jack Plans a Treasure Hunt.1 
Thin Wings - -- -- -- --.5 
Buddy Learns a Lesson . ... . 7 
Ants Walking with Parasols - -- -- -- -13 
The Nest of the Parasol Ants - -- -- -- -16 
Mr. Cricket’s Queer Song - -- -- -- --20 
The Dragon Fly . .. ---23 
Queer Water Babies - -- -. --26 
A Treasure with a Horn - -- -- -- -- 29 
A House of Silk - -- -- -- -- -- -34 
Traveling Butterflies - -- -- -- -- -38 
Along the Creek - -- -- -- -- -- --43 
A Fighting Crawfish - -- -- -- -- -45 
A Sunfish Guarding His Nest - -- -- -- -49 
Tadpole to Bullfrog - -- -- -- -- --53 
Wiggle-tails - -- -- -- -- -- -- 58 
Little Creatures with Many Legs - -- -- --63 
Giving a Spider its Dinner -.---65 
Marylee Finds Danger - ---------69 
A Mother Scorpion - -- -- -- -- --72 
A Hundred Pairs of Legs .----76 
An Animal in a Box House - -- -- -- --80 
A Fighting Lizard ----------- 84 
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