Part 1

“They sat on the branches with their bushy tails curving over their backs.” Frontispiece. See page 104.]

Wilderness Babies

By Julia Augusta Schwartz

Illustrated from Drawings by John Huybers and from Photographs

School Edition

Boston Little, Brown, and Company

Copyright, 1905, 1906,

BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

All rights reserved

Printers

S. J. PARKHILL & CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION ix

I. THE ONE WITH A POCKET 1

II. THE ONE THAT EATS GRASS IN THE SEA 17

III. THE BIGGEST ONE 27

IV. ONE OF THE FLEETEST 43

V. THE BEST BUILDER 57

VI. THE TIMID ONE 77

VII. THE ONE WITH THE PRETTIEST TAIL 93

VIII. ONE THAT SLEEPS ALL WINTER 107

IX. THE WISEST ONE 121

X. THE FIERCEST ONE 135

XI. THE ONE THAT DIGS THE BEST 149

CONCLUSION 161

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE SQUIRREL “They sat on the branches with their bushy tails curving over their backs” Frontispiece