Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1908 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. Illustrated with 24 pictures and rhymes by Peter Newell.

A humorous book, hitting off the many writers who have returned to Nature and made intimate friends in the Animal World. The author describes the super-human intelligence to be found by the discerning among our kindred of the wild. All those who love gentle humor will be entertained by the whimsical story of "Little Upsidaisi," and no reader can fail to laugh at the antics of "Jagg, the Skootaway Goat." The Illustrations by Peter Newell are in this clever artist's happiest vein and bring out to the full humor of the text.

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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852 - March 13, 1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author.Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts on October 31, 1852, to Eleanor Lothrop and Warren Edward Wilkins, who originally baptized her "Mary Ella." Freeman's parents were orthodox Congregationalists, bestowing a very strict childhood. Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works. In 1867, the family moved to Brattleboro, Vermont, where Freeman graduated from the local high school before attending, Mount Holyoke College (then, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in South...