
The Tale of Kiddie Katydid
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About This Book
Arthur Scott Bailey (1877-1949) was author of more than forty children's books. Bailey attended St. Albans Academy and graduated in 1896, in a class of only eleven other students. He then went on to the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, where he became involved in a fraternal organization, Sigma Phi. However, he left UVM in 1901 and transferred to Harvard, where he earned his bachelor's degree. In 1904 he travelled to New York City and became an editor for various publishers. Which publishers these were is unknown, with the exception of the Macaulay Company, where he was working in...
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- THE TALE OF KIDDIE KATYDID
- THE TALE OF KIDDIE KATYDID
- ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE TALE OF KIDDIE KATYDID
- I
- A GREAT SECRET
- II
- THE WARNING
- III
- MR. NIGHTHAWK
- IV
- A WHINING CALLER
- V
- SOLOMON OWL'S CRY
- VI
- FREDDIE FIREFLY'S DISCOVERY
- VII
- FREDDIE WANTS TO TELL
- VIII
- SPREADING THE NEWS
- IX
- MR. FROG IS PLEASED
- X
- A PAIR OF RASCALS
- XI
- A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER
- XII
- A PRESENT FOR KIDDIE
- XIII
- KIDDIE KATYDID IS SHY
- XIV
- KIDDIE KEEPS HIS PROMISE
- XV
- BENJAMIN BAT'S PLAN
- XVI
- A NOISY CROWD
- XVII
- KITTY DID!
- XVIII
- THE TWO GRASSHOPPERS
- XIX
- A QUARREL
- XX
- THE STRANGER'S MESSAGE
- XXI
- LEAPER THE LOCUST IS WORRIED
- XXII
- THE SHORT-HORNS ARRIVE
- XXIII
- THE BEST OF FRIENDS
- THE END
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