BY
ROBERT GORDON ANDERSON
TO JEAN AND MALCOLM
TO WHOM THESE STORIES WERE FIRST TOLD
CONTENTS
FIRST NIGHT
THE THREE HAPPY CHILDREN
SECOND NIGHT
THE PLAYMATES OF THE THREE HAPPY CHILDREN
THIRD NIGHT
NOISY FOLKS
FOURTH NIGHT
JUST BEFORE SUPPER
FIFTH NIGHT
THE TOYMAN
SIXTH NIGHT
THE WILLOW WHISTLE
SEVENTH NIGHT
MR. SCARECROW
EIGHTH NIGHT
THE PRETTIEST FAIRY STORY IN THE WORLD
NINTH NIGHT
ANOTHER TRUE FAIRY STORY
TENTH NIGHT
THE HAPPY ENDING OF THE ORIOLE'S STORY
ELEVENTH NIGHT
MOTHER HEN AND ROBBER HAWK
TWELFTH NIGHT
ABOUT DUCKIE THE STEPCHILD AND THE LITTLE SHIP
THIRTEENTH NIGHT
THE TALL ENEMY
FOURTEENTH NIGHT
THE SLEIGH AND THE TINY REINDEER
FIFTEENTH NIGHT
JACK FROST AND THE MAN-IN-THE-MOON
SIXTEENTH NIGHT
SLOSHIN'
SEVENTEENTH NIGHT
THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN
EIGHTEENTH NIGHT
THE JOLLY CLOWN
NINETEENTH NIGHT
WIENERWURST'S BRAVE BATTLE
TWENTIETH NIGHT
THE LIONS OF THE NORTH WIND
ILLUSTRATIONS
"AND THERE ON THE HILL SAT A JOLLY OLD MAN, ROUND AND FAT,WITH A PIPE IN HIS MOUTH AND A SACK ON HIS BACK"
"THE THREE HAPPY CHILDREN LIVE IN THE COUNTRY"
"WIENERWURST CAUGHT A PRETTY PIGEON BY ITS TAIL AND BIT IT"
"THE DUCKS, THE SWANS, AND THE GEESE ARE VERY FOND OF THEPOND, BUT THEIR COUSINS THINK IT A DREADFUL PLACE"
"PRIMROSE, DAISY, BUTTERCUP, AND OLD BLACK-EYED SUSAN WALKEDINTO THE BIG BARN"
"ON THE LINE SOMETHING WRIGGLED. IT WAS ROUND AND SHINYAND GOLD"
"THE TOYMAN WORKED WITH HIS KNIFE VERY CAREFULLY"
"'THERE, OLD WOODEN TOP,' THE TOYMAN SPOKE TO MR.SCARECROW STERNLY"
"THE THREE HAPPY CHILDREN SET TO WORK WITH THE THREESHINY RAKES"
"THE ORIOLES WERE VERY HAPPY BIRDS"
"FATHER AND MOTHER ORIOLE TAUGHT THEM TO FLY"
"THE EVIL EYE OF ROBBER HAWK LOOKED DOWN AT THEFRIGHTENED