Green Meadow Stories by Thornton W. Burgess (good short books .txt) 📕

dig into it as he did into our old home on the Green Meadows. Here we are, and here we’ve got to stay, all because a foolish little Fox thought himself smarter than anybody else and tried to show off.”

Reddy hung his head. “I don’t care!” he said, which was very, very foolish, because, you know, he did care a very great deal.

And here we will leave wise Old Granny Fox and Reddy, safe, even if they do not like their new home. You see, Lightfoot the Deer is getting jealous. He thinks there should be some books about the people of the Green Forest, and that the first one should be about him. And because we all love Lightfoot the Deer, the very next book is to bear his name.

Colophon

Green Meadow Stories
was published between 1918⁠–⁠20 by
Thornton W. Burgess.

This ebook was produced for
Standard Ebooks
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B. Timothy Keith and L. A. Vermeer,
and is based on transcriptions produced between 2002 and 2009 by
Stephen Schulze, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks, Cori Samuel, Kent Fielden, David Widger and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
for
Project Gutenberg (“Happy Jack,” “Mrs. Peter Rabbit,” “Bowser the Hound,” and “Old Granny Fox”)
and on digital scans available at the
HathiTrust Digital Library (“Happy Jack,” “Mrs. Peter Rabbit,” “Bowser the Hound,” and “Old Granny Fox”).

The cover page is adapted from
Rabbits on a Log,
a painting completed in 1897 by
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

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August 21, 2020, 12:14 a.m.
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