PRAIRIE-DOG TOWN
THE TWINKLE TALES
Six Volumes
MR. WOODCHUCK
BANDIT JIM CROW
PRAIRIE-DOG TOWN
PRINCE MUD-TURTLE
SUGAR-LOAF MOUNTAIN
TWINKLE'S ENCHANTMENT
THE TWINKLE TALES
BY
LAURA BANCROFT
PRAIRIE-DOG TOWN
With illustrations by
Maginel Wright Enright
CHICAGO
The Reilly & Britton Co.
Publishers.
List of Chapters
| Page | ||
| I | The Picnic | 5 |
| II | Prairie-Dog Town | 13 |
| III | Mr. Bowko, the Mayor | 18 |
| IV | Presto Digi, the Magician | 26 |
| V | The Home of the Puff-Pudgys | 34 |
| VI | Teenty and Weenty | 42 |
| VII | The Mayor Gives a Luncheon | 49 |
| VIII | On Top of the Earth Again | 57 |
Copyright, 1906, by The Reilly & Britton Co.
Chapter I
The Picnic
On the great western prairies of Dakotais a little town called Edgeley, becauseit is on the edge of civilization—avery big word which means some folkshave found a better way to live than otherfolks. The Edgeley people have a goodway to live, for there are almost seventeenwooden houses there, and among them is aschool-house, a church, a store and a blacksmith-shop.If people walked out their frontdoors they were upon the little street; ifthey walked out the back doors they were[Pg 6]on the broad prairies. That was whyTwinkle, who was a farmer's little girl, livedso near the town that she could easily walkto school.
She was a pretty, rosy-cheeked little thing,with long, fluffy hair, and