Index:The red book of animal stories.djvu

Title	The red book of animal stories
Author	various
Translator	various
Editor	Andrew Lang
Illustrator	Henry Justice Ford
Year	1899
Publisher	Longmans, Green
Location	London
Source	djvu
Progress	Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
Transclusion	Fully transcluded
OCLC	669766581
Volumes	Fairy Books: Blue (1889) • Red (1890) • Green (1892) • Yellow (1894) • Pink (1897) • Grey (1900) • Violet (1901) • Crimson (1903) • Brown (1904) • Orange (1906) • Olive (1907) • Lilac (1910) Story Books: True (1893) • Red True (1895) • Animal (1896) • Red Animal (1899) • All Sorts (1911) • Strange (1913) Other Books: Blue Poetry (1891) • Arabian Nights’ Entertainments (1898) • Romance (1902) • Red Romance (1905) • Princes and Princesses (1908) • Red Heroes (1909) • Saints and Heroes (1912)

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CONTENTS

	PAGE
The Phœnix	1
Griffins and Unicorns	4
About Ants, Amphisbænas, and Basilisks	12
Dragons	20
The Story of Beowulf, Grendel, and Grendel’s Mother	33
The Story of Beowulf and the Fire Drake	43
A Fox Tale	49
An Egyptian Snake Charmer	55
An Adventure of Gérard, the Lion Hunter	61
Pumas and Jaguars in South America	84
Mathurin and Mathurine	98
Joseph: Whose proper name was Josephine	102
The Homes of the Vizcachas	108
Guanacos Living and Dying	112
In the American Desert	117
The Story of Jacko II	128
‘Princess’	135
The Lion and the Saint	138
The Further Adventures of ‘Tom’, a Bear, in Paris	143
Recollections of a Lion Tamer	154
Sheep Farming on the Border	171
When the World was Young	177
Bats and Vampires	196
The Ugliest Beast in the World	200
The Games of Orang-Outangs, and Kees the Baboon	206
Greyhounds and their Masters	224
The Great Father, and Snakes’ Ways	232
Elephant Shooting	238
Hyenas and Children	252
A Fight with a Hippopotamus	257
Kanny, the Kangaroo	261
Collies, or Sheep Dogs	266
Two Big Dogs and a Little One	273
Crocodile Stories	280
Lion-Hunting and Lions	285
On the Trail of a Man-eater	304
Greyhounds and their Arab Masters	310
The Life and Death of Pincher	317
A Boar Hunt by Moonlight	321
Thieving Dogs and Horses	328
To the Memory of Squouncer	339
How Tom the Bear was born a Frenchman	344
Charley	357
Fairy Rings; and the Fairies who make them	364
How the Reindeer Live	370
The Cow and the Crocodile	376

ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATES

The Lion falls in love with Aissa	Frontispiece
The Griffin	to face p. 4
How the Unicorn was Trapped	9
Finding a Mermaid	16
Victor carried up the Chasm by the Dragon	26
Queen Waltheow and Beowulf	34
Grendel’s Mother drags Beowulf to the bottom of the Lake	38
The Death of Beowulf	44
The Lion falls in love with Aissa	62
Aissa’s Father finds her Axe	70
The Lion appears at the top of the Ravine	78
Maldonada guarded by the Puma	88
The Jaguar besieged by Peccaries	92
Joseph’s Breakfast	104
St. Jerome draws out the Thorn	138
Tom frightens the Little Girl	144
Just in time to save Tom	150
Securing a Mammoth	178
Megatheria	184
The Vampire Bat	196
How the Namaquas hunt the Rhinoceros	202
Orang-Outangs eating Oysters on the Sea-shore	208
The Orang determines to throw the rival Monkeys overboard	212
When this Prize was laid at the feet of the Lady, the Giver might ask in return for anything he chose	to face p. 224
Baker shooting the Elephants at the Island	240
Hannibal’s Elephants	248
The Lion was in the air close to him	290
The Woodman and the Lions get the best of the Bear	296
The Highwayman’s Horse	334
The Captain had a Strange Dream	346
The Bear instantly rose on its hind legs and began to Dance	352
Then a soft nose touched him	358

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IN TEXT

The Phœnix	2
The Odenthos	13
The Demon of Cathay	15
Ragnar does battle with the Serpents	23
De Gozon and his Dogs fight the Dragon	31
The Snake Charmer	57
The Lion said to the Gazelles ‘Do not flee’	67
The Lion laughs at the Marabout’s Question	75
Mathurin and Mathurine	99
Spaniards meeting a Caravan of Llamas	113
Watching the Combat	121
The Moccason Snake fascinates the Orioles	123
‘Princess and the Invalid’	136
The Lion rescues the Ass from the Caravan	142
I seized him by the scruff of the neck	159
The Lion Tamer offers to wake the (stuffed) Crocodile!	163
Digging the imprisoned Sheep out of the Snow	175
Stegosaurus	189
Pterodactyl	193
Le Vaillant and Fees out limiting	217
The Baboon who looked after the Goats	221
The Snakes found in the Lame Man’s Bed	235
Oswell’s narrow Escape	245
How the Hippopotamus attacked the Boat	259
The New Arrival	262
Kanny frightens the Carpenters	264
The Faithful Messenger	267
Finding the Necklace	283
The Lion in the Camp	301
Cumming’s Cap frightens the Tiger	305
The Elephant tried to gore the Tiger with his Tusks	308
The Summons to the Hunt	313
Vomhammel in Danger	325
A Portrait of Greedy Squouncer	341
Hunting the Bison	367