Books published by publisher Harcout, Brace and World

Here is a delightful collection of stories selected with discirimination from many sources -- stories to tell, to read aloud or to one's self -- that will give pleasure to all who love humor and adventure. From the droll title story by Henry Beston, through stories by Howard Pyle, Oscar Wilde, and Rudyard Kipling, as well as folk tales from many lands, the book offers a rich variety of fresh entertainment and age-old wisdom. As a perfect complement to the book, Enrico Arno, a distinguished artist, has made vigorous, imaginative drawings.

"How come they don't get on back here?" Elaphelet Birdwell asked himself. "They been gone long enough to find forty-leven trails by now." It wasn't right for them to take off and leave an eleven-year-old boy all alone with the old man and the loaded pack horses while they tramped through the woods hunting a way down off this mountaintop. Somebody should have stayed to keep him company, one of the hunters with his rifle. This was Injun country, if it was anybody's. Whoever the redskins found here, they weren't going to feel kindly toward....