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Title: The Tale of Betsy Butterfly
Tuck-Me-In Tales

Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21322]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Betsy Held the Skipper by His Coat-tails.
_Frontispiece_ (_Page_ 113)]

_TUCK-ME-IN TALES_
(Trademark Registered)

THE TALE OF BETSY BUTTERFLY

BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Made in the United States of America

Copyright, 1918, by
GROSSET & DUNLAP

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. BEAUTY AND THE BLOSSOMS 1
II. JOHNNIE GREEN'S NET 6
III. A MISHAP 11
IV. BUSYBODIES 17
V. NO JOKER 22
VI. MRS. LADYBUG'S ADVICE 27
VII. BUTTERFLY BILL 32
VIII. DO YOU LIKE BUTTER? 37
IX. UNEXPECTED NEWS 42
X. THE NIGHT WATCH 47
XI. A SLY ONE 52
XII. A TERRIBLE BLUNDER 57
XIII. THE FRIENDLY STRANGER 63
XIV. A DEEP PLOT 68
XV. JOSEPH BUMBLE'S COMPLAINT 73
XVI. NOTHING BUT A FRAUD 78
XVII. DUSTY'S DIFFICULTY 83
XVIII. SOLOMON OWL'S IDEA 88
XIX. A BIT OF LUCK 93
XX. SOMETHING SEEMS WRONG 98
XXI. A STRANGE CHANGE 103
XXII. THE SKIPPER 110

THE TALE OF BETSY BUTTERFLY

I

BEAUTY AND THE BLOSSOMS

EVERY one of the field people in Pleasant Valley, and the forest folk as
well, was different from his neighbors. For instance, there was Jasper
Jay. He was the noisiest chap for miles around. And there was Peter
Mink. Without doubt he was the rudest and most rascally fellow in the
whole district. Then there was Freddie Firefly, who wa