THE BOJABI TREE
ALL THE BEASTS WERE HUNGRY
THE BOJABI TREE
BY
EDITH RICKERT
PICTURES BY
GLEB BOTKIN
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1923
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
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INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY D. C. HEATH & COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
First Edition
In the land of All-the-Beasts there was aGREAT HUNGER. Some of the animalswho were so HUNGRY were
and many more—more than you could evercount in a year.
THEY COULD NOT EAT IT
They ran around the wood, here and thereand everywhere, eating roots and twigs andany old scraps they could find. But stillthey were HUNGRY.
One day they came to a Big Tree full offruit. But they could not eat it, for they didnot know what it was.
“LET US SEND ROBIN RAT”
They sat down in a circle round the tree,and said, “What can we do?”
When they had thought a while, they said,[8]“Let us send Robin Rat up the river to Leo,our King, and ask him what the fruit is andwhether we may eat it.”
ROBIN RAT PICKS THE FRUIT
Robin Rat was young and spry. He scuttledup the tree and brought down one of itsfruits to show King Leo.
It was a DELICIOUS looking fruit!
It looked like an
APPLEORANGEPLUMPEARBANANA
but it smelled like a
BANANAPEARPLUMORANGEAPPLE.