This is a fascinating story about Father Thrift and his animals. “As from the days your father’s father knew, This little story book now comes to you. So when you turn its pages, heed them well: Though strange the stories, many truths they tell. They tell of animals and birds and trees, Of children, flowers, and honeybees; Of a queer old man, and a quaint old town, With crooked streets that ran up and down.” This edition of the book is amply illustrated. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of this timeless story book.

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Leopold Classic Library is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive collection. As part of our on-going commitment to delivering value to the reader, we have also provided you with a link to a website, where you may download a digital version of this work for free. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. Whilst the books in this collection have not been hand curated, an aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature. As a result of this book being first published many decades ago, it may have occasional imperfections. These imperfections may include poor picture quality, blurred or missing text. While some of these imperfections may have appeared in the original work, others may have resulted from the scanning process that has been applied. However, our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. While some publishers have applied optical character recognition (OCR), this approach has its own drawbacks, which include formatting errors, misspelt words, or the presence of inappropriate characters. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with an experience that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic book, and that the occasional imperfection that it might contain will not detract from the experience.

Adventure fiction for boys 10-14.

Excerpt from The Perambulations of a Bee and a Butterfly: In Which Are Delineated Those Smaller Traits of Character Which Escape the Observation of Larger SpectatorsThe Butterfly\'s anxiety - His Friend regains his Liberty and returns late to the Hive - The butterfly detects flattery in a Gentleman to a Lady, and is alarmed by a hint from his friend as they separate for the Night; The Bees swarm - Their fondness for their Queen - The Bee in waiting - the Butterfly goes into the Country on a party of Pleasure - is overtaken by a storm, and returns in a Stagecoach - An officer exercising his genius in hoaxing his Fellow-travellers - The Butterfly recounts his adventures to his Friend - Their remarks on what passed during his Journey; The Butterfly\'s alarm, and account of a Naturalist - Wasps ensnared in a bottle - A Bee drowning in a Pot of Honey, is extricated by his Friend - Flies - The Bee\'s remarks upon them nearly offends his Friend by comparing them with himAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"Golly! I\'m getting powerful tired ob dis. Fish what just clusterers \'round youah bait an\' won\'t bite at hit noways is jest trifling and noaccount. I reckon dey\'s too ornery an\' too finiky anyway to be fit to eat. Well, here goes again, though hit ain\'t no use. I\'se dun spit on mah bait fifty times, an\' rubbed hit twice with my rabbit\'s foot, but hit doan\' do a bit of good. Dey jes\' look at hit an\' grin like white folks at a nigger\'s wedding." The little ebony negro who had spoken let drop his daintily baited hook into the water again with a gesture of disgust.