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Title: Rataplan
Author: Ellen Velvin
Release Date: June, 2004 [EBook #5867]

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Edition: 10
Language: English
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, RATAPLAN ***

Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading
Team

RATAPLAN,
A ROGUE ELEPHANT
AND OTHER STORIES

By ELLEN VELVIN, F.Z.S.
Author of "Tales Told at the Zoo,"
"Jack's Visit," Etc.
With illustrations
by GUSTAVE VERBEEK

To
GRACE GALLATIN THOMPSON SETON
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED

TO THE AUTHOR, COMING AS A STRANGER TO THIS
COUNTRY, HER HELP, ADVICE AND LOYAL
FRIENDSHIP HAVE BEEN INVALUABLE

PREFACE

If an excuse for this book were needed, the undying interest of young
people in both wild and domesticated animals would afford it. From
time immemorial they have been amused and instructed by stories of
animals, and it is not hard to trace the educational and humane
influence of such tales.

There are heroes and tyrants, cruel and gentle natures in the animal
world, as in our own, and, judged by our standards, their lives are
pastorals or tragedies, even as ours are, while their histories are
often even more interesting than those of men or women. Then, too,
young people should know that these dwellers in forest wilds have, in
part at least, the same aims, hopes and fears as ourselves.

In the preparation of this book the best of authorities have been
consulted, and careful study given to the habits, traits and
characteristics of the animals whose intimate lives are told in these
stories. In addition, I have endeavored to tell young people, as
pleasantly as possible, that they often make grave blunders in caring
for their pets--blunders due to ignorance as to the requirements of
their living toys.

ELLEN VELVIN.
New York City.
CONTENTS

RATAPLAN, ROGUE
GEAN, THE GIRAFFE
KEESA, THE KANGAROO
CARA, THE CAMEL
SICCATEE, THE SQUIRREL
LEO, THE LION
CHAFFER, THE CHAMOIS
JINKS, THE JACKAL
PERO, THE PORCUPINE
TERA, THE TIGRESS
HIPPO, HIPPOPOTAMUS
OSRA, THE OSTRICH
SEELA, THE SEAL
BRUNIE, THE BEAR
MONA, THE MONKEY
BULON, THE BUFFALO

ILLUSTRATIONS

From Drawings by Gustave Verbeek.
"But, oh, what havoc he made"
"Groar joined in with might and main"
"Even his mother looked at him with surprise"
"Sat on one of the boughs and scolded as hard as she could"
"He would take up some small animal and walk coolly off with it"
"Chaffer was the first to meet the hunters face to face"
"Jinks never was so happy as when he was leading his pack"

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