BURGESS TRADE QUADDIES MARK

MOTHER WEST WIND'S ANIMAL FRIENDS

BY THORNTON W. BURGESS

Author of "Old Mother West Wind," and "Mother West Wind's Children"

Illustrated by George Kerr

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1920

Copyright, 1912,
By Little, Brown, and Company

All rights reserved

IN TENDER, LOVING, REVERENT MEMORY OF MY MOTHER,
WHO LOVED LITTLE CHILDREN AND WAS BELOVED
OF THEM, AND TO WHOM I OWE A DEBT
OF AFFECTION AND OF GRATITUDE
BEYOND MY POWER TO PAY

Suddenly he met Mr. Panther. Frontispiece.

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MOTHER WEST WIND'S ANIMAL FRIENDS

I

THE MERRY LITTLE BREEZES SAVE THE GREEN MEADOWS

Old Mother West Wind's family is very big, very big indeed. There are dozens and dozens of Merry Little Breezes, all children of Old Mother West Wind. Every morning she comes down from the Purple Hills and tumbles them out of a great bag on to the Green Meadows. Every night she gathers them into the great bag and, putting it over her shoulder, takes them to their home behind the Purple Hills.

One morning, just as usual, Old Mother West Wind turned the Merry Little Breezes out to play on the Green Meadows. Then she hurried away to fill the sails of the ships and blow them across the great ocean. The Merry Little Breezes hopped and skipped over the Green Meadows looking for some one to play with. It was then