Chapter I: Preface

As I walk’d by myself, And talked to myself, Myself said unto me—

Through many changing seasons these tales have walked and talked with me. They were not meant for printing; I have left them in the homely idiom of our old north country speech. I send them on the insistence of friends beyond the sea.

BEATRIX POTTER.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. TUPPENNY 9

II. THE TRAVELLING CIRCUS 21

III. MOVING CAMP 28

IV. PONY BILLY IN THE POUND 35

V. THE MISSES PUSSYCATS’ SHOP 45

VI. LITTLE MOUSE 54

VII. SPRINGTIME IN BIRDS’ PLACE 59

VIII. THE PIGMY ELEPHANT 66

IX. BY WILFIN BECK 73

X. THE SHEEP 85

XI. HABBITROT 97

XII. ACROSS THE FORD 105

XIII. CODLIN CROFT ORCHARD 112

XIV. DEMERARA SUGAR 123

XV. PONY BILLY’S SEARCH 136

XVI. THE EFFECT OF TOADSTOOL TARTLETS 145

XVII. FAIRY HORSE-SHOES 151

XVIII. THE WOODS BY MOONLIGHT 163

XIX. MARY ELLEN 174

XX. IKY SHEPSTER’S PLAY 183

XXI. THE VETERINARY RETRIEVER 196

XXII. CUCKOO BROW LANE 206

XXIII. THE FAIRY IN THE OAK 216

THE FAIRY CARAVAN