py loved to stroll about after dark and "chirp."

THE TALE OF MRS. LADYBUG

Mrs. Ladybug loved to find out what her neighbors were doing and to give
them advice.

Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, New York.

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Transcriber's Notes

1. Punctuation has been normalized to contemporary standards.
2. Frontispiece illustration relocated to after title page.
3. Lines printed out of order in published text have been corrected:
page 68, lines 4 and 5 as in original:
friends to a house-warming and I don't
hard on me. For I've invited all my
page 112, lines 19 and 20 as in original:
You saw a raising bee and didn't know it!
are the one that's mistaken--and not I!

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