The Tale of Mr. Tod

Beatrix Potter

[Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE FREDERICK WARNE First published 1902 Frederick Warne & Co., 1902 Printed and bound in Great Britain by William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London [Illustr...

Beatrix Potter

AUTHOR OF "THE TAIL OF PETER RABBIT," &C. [Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE & CO., INC.

Beatrix Potter

_Author of_ "_The Tale of Peter Rabbit_" [Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE [Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE 1903 by Frederick Warne & Co.

Beatrix Potter

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets--when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta--there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.