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_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_
=EXMOOR LASS=, and other Pony Stories
With frontispiece in colour and about 76 illustrations from
drawings by the Author in the text, and with coloured jacket.
Large crown 8vo, cloth. Price 3s. 6d. net. (By post, 4s.)
“These are jolly stories of the ponies not only on Exmoor, but
in the heaths of the New Forest, on the Moorlands of Wales, and
the stony spaces of Shetland. . . . The author’s sketches are
delightful.”—_The Times Literary Supplement._
=THE BIRDS OF THE AIR=; or, British Birds in their Haunts
Second Edition. With 100 illustrations, including 8 plates in
colour. 5s. net. (By post, 5s. 6d.)
“He writes with sympathetic simplicity of the birds he has
watched and sketched. His drawings are wonderfully
characteristic; in a few lines he catches expression, attitude,
‘jizz’ as the Irishman said, of the living, alert
bird.”—_Manchester Guardian._
_BY ANNA SEWELL_
=BLACK BEAUTY=: The Autobiography of a Horse
With frontispiece and jacket in colour. Crown 8vo, cloth. Price
2s. 6d. net. (By post, 2s. 10d.)
This is a new edition of the classic of the horse. Today as
many readers as ever are enjoying the tale of Black Beauty’s
early life and pleasant friends, his fall to the hard lot of a
London cab-horse, and the happy ending of his story.
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