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THE TALE OF MR. TOD
BY
BEATRIX POTTER
_Author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc._
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FREDERICK WARNE & CO., INC. NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1912
BY
FREDERICK WARNE & Co.
_Copyright renewed 1940_
(_All rights reserved_)
PRINTED AND BOUND IN THE USA
ROSE PRINTING CO INC
ISBN O 7232 0605 8
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FOR
FRANCIS WILLIAM OF ULVA
----SOMEDAY!


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THE TALE OF MR. TOD

I have made many books about well-behaved people. Now, for a change, I
am going to make a story about two disagreeable people, called Tommy
Brock and Mr. Tod.
Nobody could call Mr. Tod "nice." The rabbits could not bear him; they
could smell him half a mile off. He was of a wandering habit and he had
foxey whiskers; they never knew where he would be next.
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One day he was living in a stick-house in the coppice, causing terror to
the family of old Mr. Benjamin Bouncer. Next day he moved into a pollard
willow near the lake, frightening the wild ducks and the water rats.
In winter and early spring he might generally be found in an earth
amongst the rocks at the top of Bull Banks, under Oatmeal Crag.
He had half a dozen houses, but he was seldom at home.
The houses were not always empty when Mr.
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