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    The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk
    The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk
    The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk
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    The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk

    By Thornton W. Burgess

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    Thornton W. Burgess was an important and influential American conservationist and a prolific author of charming and witty children’s stories. For over 50 years, Burgess published numerous popular books on the flora and fauna of the natural world and wrote a regular newspaper column called “Bedtime Stories”. Often affectionately referred to as the “Bedtime Story-Man”, Burgess celebrated his love for the natural world through humorous and educational stories for children in both his books and in his popular column. First published in 1918, “The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk” begins with poor little Jimmy Skunk finding himself the unwilling victim of a funny but mean-spirited prank played by the mischievous Peter Rabbit. Reddy Fox is unfairly blamed for the naughty trick, but soon Peter learns a valuable lesson about treating others with kindness and courtesy. Burgess had a special ability to combine an educational story about the behaviors, habitats, and characteristics of the creatures of the natural world while also captivating audiences both young and old. This edition includes a biographical afterword and the original illustrations by Harrison Cady.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigireads.com Publishing
    Release dateJan 8, 2020
    ISBN9781420971286

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      My 7 yr old gave this a 5. I agree. I liked the way morals were told in an entertaining way. My daughter didn't feel she was being moralized at because she wanted to hear the whole book. I've tried others that had a distinct 'moral' or 'value' and she hates it.Adventures of Jimmy Skunk: Jimmy is the butt of a bad joke gone wrong by Peter Rabbit. See how he deals with Peter. Jimmy loves eggs but his disappointment of not finding any at the henhouse ends up with him and Billy Possum in a funny fix.

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    The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk - Thornton W. Burgess

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    THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMY SKUNK

    By THORNTON W. BURGESS

    The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk

    By Thornton W. Burgess

    Illustrated by Harrison Cady

    Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-7127-9

    eBook ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-7128-6

    This edition copyright © 2020. Digireads.com Publishing.

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

    Cover Image: a detail of an illustration by Harrison Cady, published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, c. 1918.

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    CONTENTS

    I. Peter Rabbit Plans a Joke

    II. Peter Makes a Flying Jump

    III. What Happened at the Old Barrel

    IV. Jimmy Skunk Is Very Mad Indeed

    V. Reddy Fox Sneaks Away

    VI. Peter Rabbit Doesn’t Enjoy His Joke

    VII. Sammy Jay Does Some Guessing

    VIII. Jimmy Skunk Looks For Peter

    IX. Jimmy Visits Johnny Chuck’s Old House

    X. Peter Rabbit Is Most Uncomfortable

    XI. Jimmy Skunk Keeps His Word

    XII. Jimmy Skunk and Unc’ Billy Possum Meet

    XIII. Jimmy Skunk Explains

    XIV. A Little Something About Eggs

    XV. A Second Meeting

    XVI. A Matter of Politeness

    XVII. Jimmy Skunk Gets a Bump

    XVIII. A Sad, Sad Quarrel

    XIX. Jimmy Skunk Is True to His Word

    XX. Farmer Brown’s Boy Arrives

    XXI. The Nest-Egg Gives Unc’ Billy Away

    XXII. Unc’ Billy Possum Tries His Old Trick

    XXIII. Unc’ Billy Gives Himself Away

    Biographical Afterword

    I. Peter Rabbit Plans a Joke

    The Imp of Mischief, woe is me,

    Is always busy as a bee

    That is why so many people are forever getting into trouble. He won’t keep still. No, Sir, he won’t keep still unless he is made to. Once let him get started there is no knowing where he will stop. Peter Rabbit had just seen Jimmy Skunk disappear inside an old barrel, lying on its side at the top of the hill, and at once the Imp of Mischief began to whisper to Peter. Of course Peter shouldn’t have listened. Certainly not. But he did. You know Peter dearly loves a joke when it is on some one else. He sat right where he was and watched to see if Jimmy would come out of the barrel. Jimmy didn’t come out, and after a little Peter stole over to the barrel and peeped inside. There was Jimmy Skunk curled up for a nap.

    Peter tiptoed away very softly. All the time the Imp of Mischief was whispering to him that this was a splendid chance to play a joke on Jimmy. You know it is very easy to play a joke on any one who is asleep. Peter doesn’t often have a chance to play a joke on Jimmy Skunk. It isn’t a very safe thing to do, not if Jimmy is awake. No one knows that better than Peter. He sat down some distance from the barrel but where he could keep an eye on it. Then he went into a brown study, which is one way of saying that he thought very hard. He wanted to play a joke on Jimmy, but like most jokers he didn’t want the joke to come back on himself. In fact, he felt that it would be a great deal better for him if Jimmy shouldn’t know that he had anything to do with the joke.

    As he sat there in a brown study, he happened to glance over on the Green Meadows and there he saw something red. He looked very hard, and in a minute he saw that it was Reddy Fox. Right away, Peter’s nimble wits began to plan how he could use Reddy Fox to play a joke on Jimmy. All in a flash an idea came to him, an idea that made him laugh right out. You see, the Imp of Mischief was very, very busy whispering to Peter.

    If Reddy were only up here, I believe I could do it, and it would be a joke on Reddy as well as on Jimmy, thought Peter, and laughed right out again.

    What are you laughing at? asked a voice. It was the voice of Sammy Jay.

    Right away a plan for getting Reddy up there flashed into Peter’s head. He would get Sammy angry, and that would make Sammy scream. Reddy would be sure to come up there to see what Sammy Jay was making such a fuss about. Sammy, you know, is very quick-tempered. No one knows this better than Peter. So instead of replying politely to Sammy, as he should have done, Peter spoke crossly:

    Fly away, Sammy, fly away! It is no business of yours what I am laughing at, said he.

    Right away Sammy’s quick temper flared up. He began to call Peter names, and Peter answered back. This angered Sammy still more, and as he always screams when he is angry, he was soon making such a racket that Reddy Fox down on the Green Meadows couldn’t help but hear it. Peter saw him lift his head to listen. In a few minutes he began to trot that way. He was coming to find out what that fuss was about. Peter knew that Reddy wouldn’t come straight up there. That isn’t Reddy’s way. He would steal around back of the old stone wall on the edge of the Old Orchard, which was

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