Animal Children - The Friends of the Forest and the Plain

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Animal Children, by Edith Brown Kirkwood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Animal Children The Friends of the Forest and the Plain Author: Edith Brown Kirkwood Illustrator: M. T. Ross Release Date: February 17, 2006 [EBook #17782] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANIMAL CHILDREN *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sjaani and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Animal Children The Friends of the Forest and the Plain. By Edith Brown Kirkwood Drawings by M.T. Ross Published by P.F. Volland & Co. Chicago Copyright 1913 P.F. Volland & Company All Rights Reserved Ninth Edition To all children who find friends in the Forest or on the Plain, and especially to Samuel and to Gilbert, this book is lovingly dedicated. FOREWORD hen God made the world He planted the flowers and the grass and the trees to make things beautiful to look upon; He swung the sun and the moon and the stars in the sky to make things bright; He put the birds in the trees to fill the air with music, and when He made the animals we believe that he intended them to be the friends of man. Why, isn't the dog the best playmate that a boy can have?