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Title
The red book of animal stories
Author
various
Translator
various
Editor
Andrew Lang
Illustrator
Henry Justice Ford
Year
1899
Publisher
Longmans, Green
Location
London
Source
djvu
Progress
Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
Transclusion
Fully transcluded
OCLC
669766581
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CONTENTS
PAGE
The Phœnix
1
Griffins and Unicorns
4
About Ants, Amphisbænas, and Basilisks
12
Dragons
20
The Story of Beowulf, Grendel, and Grendel's Mother
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The Story of Beowulf and the Fire Drake
43
A Fox Tale
49
An Egyptian Snake Charmer
55
An Adventure of Gérard, the Lion Hunter
61
Pumas and Jaguars in South America
84
Mathurin and Mathurine
98
Joseph: Whose proper name was Josephine
102
The Homes of the Vizcachas
108
Guanacos Living and Dying
112
In the American Desert
117
The Story of Jacko II
128
'Princess'
135
The Lion and the Saint
138
The Further Adventures of ‘Tom', a Bear, in Paris
143
Recollections of a Lion Tamer
154
Sheep Farming on the Border
171
When the World was Young
177
Bats and Vampires
196
The Ugliest Beast in the World
200
The Games of Orang-Outangs, and Kees the Baboon
206
Greyhounds and their Masters
224
The Great Father, and Snakes' Ways
232
Elephant Shooting
238
Hyenas and Children
252
A Fight with a Hippopotamus
257
Kanny, the Kangaroo
261
Collies, or Sheep Dogs
266
Two Big Dogs and a Little One
273
Crocodile Stories
280
Lion-Hunting and Lions
285
On the Trail of a Man-eater
304
Greyhounds and their Arab Masters
310
The Life and Death of Pincher
317
A Boar Hunt by Moonlight
321
Thieving Dogs and Horses
328
To the Memory of Squouncer
339
How Tom the Bear was born a Frenchman
344
Charley
357
Fairy Rings; and the Fairies who make them
364
How the Reindeer Live
370
The Cow and the Crocodile
376
ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATES
The Lion falls in love with Aissa
Frontispiece
The Griffin
to face p. 4
How the Unicorn was Trapped
9
Finding a Mermaid
16
Victor carried up the Chasm by the Dragon
26
Queen Waltheow and Beowulf
34
Grendel's Mother drags Beowulf to the bottom of the Lake
38
The Death of Beowulf
44
The Lion falls in love with Aissa
62
Aissa’s Father finds her Axe
70
The Lion appears at the top of the Ravine
78
Maldonada guarded by the Puma
88
The Jaguar besieged by Peccaries
92
Joseph’s Breakfast
104
St. Jerome draws out the Thorn
138
Tom frightens the Little Girl
144
Just in time to save Tom
150
Securing a Mammoth
178
Megatheria
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The Vampire Bat
196
How the Namaquas hunt the Rhinoceros
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Orang-Outangs eating Oysters on the Sea-shore
208
The Orang determines to throw the rival Monkeys overboard
212
When this Prize was laid at the feet of the Lady, the Giver might ask in return for anything he chose
to face p.
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Baker shooting the Elephants at the Island
240
Hannibal’s Elephants
248
The Lion was in the air close to him
290
The Woodman and the Lions get the best of the Bear
296
The Highwayman’s Horse
334
The Captain had a Strange Dream
346
The Bear instantly rose on its hind legs and began to Dance
352
Then a soft nose touched him
358
IN TEXT
The Phœnix
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The Odenthos
13
The Demon of Cathay
15
Ragnar does battle with the Serpents
23
De Gozon and his Dogs fight the Dragon
31
The Snake Charmer
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The Lion said to the Gazelles 'Do not flee
'
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The Lion laughs at the Marabout’s Question
75
Mathurin and Mathurine
99
Spaniards meeting a Caravan of Llamas
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Watching the Combat
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The Moccason Snake fascinates the Orioles
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Princess and the Invalid
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The Lion rescues the Ass from the Caravan
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I seized him by the scruff of the neck
159
The Lion Tamer offers to wake the (stuffed) Crocodile!
163
Digging the imprisoned Sheep out of the Snow
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Stegosaurus
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Pterodactyl
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Le Vaillant and Fees out limiting
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The Baboon who looked after the Goats
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The Snakes found in the Lame Man's Bed
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Oswell's narrow Escape
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How the Hippopotamus attacked the Boat
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The New Arrival
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Kanny frightens the Carpenters
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The Faithful Messenger
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Finding the Necklace
283
The Lion in the Camp
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Cumming's Cap frightens the Tiger
305
The Elephant tried to gore the Tiger with his Tusks
308
The Summons to the Hunt
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Vomhammel in Danger
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A Portrait of Greedy Squouncer
341
Hunting the Bison
367