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TIMID HARE

The Little Captive

by

MARY H. WADE

Author of "Little Cousin Series", etc.

Illustrated by Louis Betts

Whitman Publishing Co.
Racine -- Chicago

1916







[Illustration: Cover Art]


[Frontispiece: Buffalo Rib was a Handsome Youth.]



CONTENTS

  CAPTURED
  BEFORE THE CHIEF
  THE NEW HOME
  HARD WORK
  THE CHANGE
  THE VISIT
  THE MISCHIEF MAKER
  THE HAPPY DAY
  THE DOG FEAST
  THE FESTIVAL
  MOVING DAY
  THE JOURNEY
  THE MEDICINE MAN
  THE WINTER HUNT




List of Color Plates


   Buffalo Rib Was a Handsome Youth

   The Stone and Her Son Black Bull Were Hurrying Home

   "Sweet Grass, Listen to Me"  [Missing from book]

   "I Soon Had a Fire Started"

   Black Bull Was Helpless

   Bent