Chapter I: Introduction

These little stories, which are intended both for children and their elders, are really true to natural science.

Disguised in fiction form, the reader gets a taste of biology, botany, zoology, and meteorology.

Such a taste may or may not lead the child to further study along those lines, but it will certainly give him a heightened appreciation of out-door life. Incidentally, he will have accumulated in the easiest possible way a great many facts that he will retain all his life.

The tales should also create a kindlier attitude toward our friends in fur and feathers, as well as instilling some of the stern virtues of the wilderness.

That these tales may be suitable for bedtime reading, no animal hero is ever killed. The big words are explained, and the adventure of each chapter harks back to the preceding in a way to refresh the memory of the reader who only takes time for a chapter an evening.

On the other hand, my readers have thus far included a large proportion of quite grown-up little boys.

ALLEN CHAFFEE.

To
HOWARD FOLSOM BROCK
whose great heart had in it a corner
for even the furred and
feathered folk.

INDEX

Chapter Page
I. Twinkly Gets a Ducking 1
II. Mother Black Bear to the Rescue 4
III. A Stern Lesson 7
IV. But He Learns It 10
V. Mrs. Porcupine Shows Fight 13
VI. Driven from Their Pond 17
VII. Sink or Swim 20
VIII. Writho, the Black Snake 23
IX. “Whoof! Whoof!” 26
X. The Better Part of Valor 29
XI. A Tip on Thunder-Storms 32
XII. A Wild Mother’s Love 35
XIII. Twinkly Eyes Gets Even 38
XIV. A Different Twinkly Eyes 41
XV. There’s Many a Slip 45
XVI. The Bee Tree 48
XVII. Twinkly Eyes and Trouble 51
XVIII. Twinkly Shows His Mettle 54
XIX. Down But Not Downed 57
XX. Twinkly Applies First Aid 60
XXI. Mammy Cottontail’s Secret 63
XXII. One of Twinkly’s Neighbors 66
XXIII. Introducing Bobby Lynx 69
XXIV. A Bunny Ball 72
XXV. Twinkly Eyes Attends a Frolic 75
XXVI. A Joke On The Little Black Bear 78
XXVII. School For Bunnies 81
XXVIII. A Boy and A Bear 84
XXIX. The Tables Are Turned 87
XXX. A Climbing Match 90
XXXI. The Bear Gets The Best of It 93
XXXII. The Little Bears Go Fishing 96
XXXIII. Twinkly Again Meets The Porcupine 99
XXXIV. A Good Sport 102
XXXV. Bobby Lynx Learns A Lesson 104
XXXVI. Twinkly Watches Again 108
XXXVII. Foxy Counsel 111
XXXVIII. A Jolly World 114
XXXIX. Who Will be Sorriest? 117
XL. Twinkly Eyes Plays Safe 121
XLI. Twinkly Eyes Gets a Great Surprise 124
XLII. Twinkly Eyes Plots Mischief 127
XLIII. Twinkly Teases Unk Wunk 130
XLIV. Twinkly Eyes Gets His 133
XLV. Bobby Lynx Goes Fishing 136
XLVI. A New Acquaintance 139
XLVII. The Hired Man Drops a Match 142
XLVIII. The Forest Aflame 146
XLIX. In the Face of a Common Peril 149
L. While There is Life, There is Hope 153
LI. The Boy from the Valley Farm 156
LII. Twinkly’s Fellow Refugees 160
LIII. A Way for the Squirrel Family 163
LIV. What Happened to Fleet Foot 166
LV. Twinkly Eyes Goes House-Hunting 169
LVI. At the Sugar Camp 173
LVII. A Feast and a Fast 176
LVIII. The First Snow 179
LIX. Twinkly Eyes Goes to Bed 182

THE ADVENTURES OF

Twinkly Eyes

THE LITTLE BLACK BEAR