E-text prepared by Al Haines
Sandman's Goodnight Stories
By Abbie Phillips Walker
Illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase
Harper & Brothers, Publishers
SANDMAN'S GOOD-NIGHT STORIES
Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Brothers
To My Sister
MARY P. BABCOCK
I Lovingly Dedicate
These Little Stories
CONTENTS
THE EATYOUP
THE TELL-TALE GOBLIN
DAME CRICKET'S STORY
THE PLAYROOM WEDDING
MORNING-GLORY
THE PEACOCK BUTTERFLIES
THE REVENGE OF THE GNOMES
THE LITTLE CHINA SHEPHERDESS
HOW THE BUTTERCUP GREW YELLOW
WAS IT THE FIELD FAIRY?
THE FROGS AND THE FAIRIES
JACK THE PREACHER
MR. CROW GOES AND TELLS
DISCONTENTED DEWDROP
INQUISITIVE MR. POSSUM
WHAT THE FLOWERS TOLD MARTHA
WHEN JACK FROST WAS YOUNG
THE REVENGE OF THE FIREFLIES
SALLIE HICKS'S FOREFINGER
THE RAIN ELVES
MR. FOX'S HOUSEWARMING
LITTLE PITCHER-MAN
THE WIND-FLOWER'S STORY
PUSSY WILLOW'S FURS
ORIANNA
OLD NORTH WIND
MR. FOX CUTS THE COTTONTAILS
LITTLE NEVER-UPSET
THE EATYOUP
The Eatyoup
Dicky Duck was a very wise young fellow. He swam about the pond alonelong before his brothers left their mother, and such worms and bugs andthings of that sort as he found made all the other young ducks quitegreen with envy.