Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin

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Adventures of Mister Robert Robin, by Ben Field

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Title: Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin
Author: Ben Field
Release Date: March 16, 2007 [EBook #20833]
Language: English
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EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MISTER ROBERT ROBIN
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The Wildwood Series BY BEN FIELD
EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MR. TOM SQUIRREL EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MISTER JIM CROW EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MISTER GERALD FOX EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MISTER MELANCTHON COON EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MISTER ROBERT ROBIN EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MISTER BOB WHITE
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[Illustration: They did not move as the great gray bird floated straight towards their tree. (Page 10) (Exciting Adventures of Mr. Robert Robin)]
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The Wildwood Series
EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MISTER ROBERT ROBIN
By BEN FIELD
Illustrated
A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York Printed in U. S. A.
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Copyright, 1928, by A. L. BURT COMPANY
Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. WHERE MISTER ROBERT ROBIN LIVED, AND SOMETHING ABOUT HIS NEIGHBORS 1
II. MISTER ROBERT ROBIN SEES THE FARMER'S NEW MALTESE CAT 13
III. ROBERT ROBIN AND WIDOW BLUNT'S STUFFED OWL 29
IV. MISTER ROBERT ROBIN HAS AN ADVENTURE WITH THE FARMER'S MALTESE CAT 43
V. ROBERT ROBIN SINGS HIS CHERRY SONG 52
VI. MISTER ROBIN DECIDES TO TAKE A VACATION 60
VII. MISTER ROBERT ROBIN AND HIS FAMILY TAKE A VACATION 71
VIII. ROBERT ROBIN TELLS THE STORY OF WINTER 85
IX. MISTER ROBERT ROBIN HAS A BATTLE WITH THE SPARROWS 99
X. ROBERT ROBIN AND HIS FAMILY GO SOUTH 110
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
They did not move as the great gray bird floated straight toward their tree Frontis
FACING PAGE
Both of them were scared almost out of their wits 36
They sat in an apple tree and watched the gulls swooping and soaring through the air 76
The sparrows came rushing straight at Robert Robin and his family 104
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THE EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MISTER ROBERT ROBIN
CHAPTER I
WHERE MISTER ROBERT ROBIN LIVED, AND SOMETHING ABOUT HIS NEIGHBORS
Mister and Mrs. Robert Robin lived in the big basswood tree which stood at the corner of Mister Tom Squirrel's woods.
Their nest was made of sticks, and grass, and mud, and was so well hidden in the largest fork of the tree that if you had been standing near the foot of the big basswood, you could not have seen Mister Robert Robin's nest at all. But if you had been able to fly up into the top of the big basswood tree, then you might have looked down and seen the nest and Mrs. Robert Robin's four greenish blue eggs, right in the middle of it.
But if Mister Robert Robin, or Mrs. Robert Robin had spied you up in their tree, they would have made a great fuss about it. They would have screamed with all their might, and if you had gone near their nest they would have flown right at you, and tried to frighten you away.
Many of Robert Robin's cousins, and aunts, and uncles lived in town. They built their nests in the parks, and in the shade trees along the streets. Some of them even built their nests in the porches, and on the eaves troughs, and in barns, and sheds, and in the church steeples. Others of Robert Robin's family lived out in the country, and had their nests around the farmer's buildings, in orchards, under bridges, in windmills, and in almost every other sort of a place, but Mister and Mrs. Robert Robin would rather live in their own tall basswood tree than any other place in the whole wide world.
Each Fall, when the weather grew cold, and the winds were chilly, and the leaves of the big basswood turned brown, and then blew away, Robert Robin and his whole family flew south, but each Spring when the weather grew warmer, Robert Robin and Mrs. Robin came hurrying back north, to build a new nest in their own basswood tree.
"No other place will ever seem like home to me!" said Mrs. Robin.
"I should never get over feeling homesick, if we should lose our tree!" said Robert Robin.
So every Spring, before the snow banks in the gully were all melted, and before the yellow water had ceased running down the lane, Mister and Mrs. Robert Robin were back in their own tree, and were as busy as could be building a nice new nest.
When Gerald Pox, and Melancthon Coon, and Jim Crow, and Wellington Woodchuck, and Billy Rabbit, and Major Partridge saw Robert Robin flying through the bare woods, or heard him singing his clear notes from the top of his big basswood tree,