Tommy stopped and scowled at it just as he had been scowling at everybody and everything. That is always the way with people who go way down deep in the sulks. He couldn’t see and hear because-well, because he wouldn’t see and hear. He couldn’t even hear the Merry Little Breezes whispering secrets as they danced around him. He couldn’t hear the music of the birds and the bees. He couldn’t see anything lovely in the beautiful, broad, Green Meadows with the shadows of the clouds chasing one another across them. He was so deep in them that he couldn’t see jolly round Mr. The truth was, Tommy was deep, very deep, in the sulks. Yes, it was a horrid old world, this world in which Tommy lived, and he was quite willing that everybody should know it. It always was that way whenever there was anything interesting or particular to do, or any fun going on. It was a horrid old world anyway, this world which made a fellow go hunt up and drive home a lot of pesky cows just when all the other fellows were over at the swimming-hole. It seemed as if the very freckles were trying to hide from it. A scowl, a deep, dark, heavy scowl, had chased all merriment from his round, freckled face. Usually he just loved to feel them, but this afternoon he just didn’t want to find anything pleasant or nice in the things he was accustomed to. Tommy scuffed his bare, brown feet in the grass and didn’t even notice how cooling and refreshing to his bare toes the green blades were. Wishing-Stone Chapter One Tommy And The Wishing-Stone IT MUST BE GREAT TO BE ABLE TO FLY LIKE THAT IV Tommy Learns What It Is Like To Be A Bear I How It Happened That Reddy Fox Gained A Friend III The Pleasures And Troubles Of Bobby Coon II Why Tommy Became A Friend Of Red Squirrels III What Happened When Tommy Became A Mink II How Tommy Learned To Admire Thunderer The Ruffed Grouse To the cause of love, mercy and protection for our little friends of the air and the wild-wood, and to a better understanding of them, the Wishing-Stone Stories are dedicated. This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs,wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher. Typographical arrangement of this edition Originally Published By Little, Brown, And Company, Boston KEYWORDS/TAGS: Wishing-Stone Stories, children’s stories, folklore, fairy tales, fables, bedtime stories, Tommy Admire, Thunderer The Ruffed Grouse, Mink, A Very Humble Person, Wish, Come True, Peter Rabbit, One Less, Enemy, Friend, Red Squirrels, Pleasures, Troubles, Bobby Coon, Envy, Honker, Goose, change of heart, Reddy Fox, Gain, Furry Engineer, Beaver, Traps, Bear Read more By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column. He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man. Thornton Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories". He would go on to write more than 100 books and thousands of short-stories during his lifetime. (Waldo) Burgess (1874-1965), American author, naturalist and conservationist, wrote popular children's stories including the Old Mother West Wind (1910) series. Burgess weaves each tale to include interesting nature lore, a touch of humor, important values, and just enough danger to provide an exciting ending to each story!ġ0% of the profit from each story will be donated to charities. Toad, Paddy the Beaver and a host of others. Burgess's most beloved stories are combined here in a wonderful three volume e-book edition that includes 15 BnW images of the classic Harrison Cady original drawings.įarmer Brown's boy Tommy discovers an old grey stone in the pasture that magically transforms him into whatever animal he wishes to be, allowing him to share adventures with Danny Meadow Mouse, Peter Rabbit, Old Mr.
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