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[Illustration: The Lone Wolf

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_Days Before History_




_UNIFORM WITH THIS BOOK_

In Nature’s School

_By_ LILIAN GASK

_With Sixteen exquisite Full-page Illustrations and a Title-page Design_

_By_ DOROTHY HARDY


THIS STORY details the experiences of a sensitive boy who, in a moment
of revolt, flees from the oppression of some cruel schoolfellows into
the woods, where he meets Nature, who takes him round the world and
shows to him her kingdom of fur and feather. The child is introduced to
all manner of beasts and birds, and learns valuable lessons of kindness
and toleration, while at the same time the facts of natural history
are not distorted to serve the purpose of a story. Everything is true
to facts, so far as they are known from observation and from the best
authorities.

The Illustrations are of quite unusual merit, and will establish the
claims of this talented artist to a place amongst the best English
interpreters of animal life.




  DAYS BEFORE
  HISTORY

  BY

  H·R·HALL

  WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
  A·M·RANDALL

  [Illustration]

  George·G·Harrap·&·Co
  15 York Street·Covent Garden
  London




  _FIRST EDITION
  November 1906, 5000; December 1907, 5000._

  _SECOND EDITION
  Revised, Enlarged, and Newly Illustrated, September 1908, 3000._


  _Letchworth