363 pp. Original green cloth, color picture plate on front cover, dark green design, gilt titles and border. Color frontispiece and plates and black-and-white illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. "Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 - June 5, 1965). Born in Sandwich, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, he was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Thornton Waldo Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for daily columns in newspapers." -- Wikipedia
