PART I.

 Rover and his friends ..  Adapted from an English story
 famous dogs
 how to take care of dogs ..  Anna Harris Smith
 stories of dogs
 forsake not an old friend ..  Plutarch
 cats and dogs
 famous cats
 Kitty’s Christmas
 to my cat Muff ..  John Owen
 how to take care of cats
 cat questions ..  Lucy Larcom
 the cat family
 things to remember
 stories of cats
 A brave girl ..  Harriet Beecher Stowe
 aunt Esther’s rule .. " "
 Lion stories
 the king of beasts
 the ship of the desert
 A heavy load
 famous horses
 how to treat horses
 catching the colt ..  Marian Douglass
 A remarkable horse-Trainer
 the Arab to his horse ..  Bayard Taylor
 “Waiting for master”

PART II.

 Robert’s dream ..  Anna Harris Smith
 Robert on A farm ..  Anna Harris Smith
 April song ..  Mary E. Wilkins
 earthworms and snakes. 
 Humanity ..  T. Gisborne
 ants, bees, and wasps
 A little black slave ..  Adapted from an English story
 A butterfly’s wing
 to A butterfly ..  Jane Taylor
 Cunning bee ..  Anonymous
 Grasshopper and Cricket ..  John Keats
 patient weavers
 the woodmouse ..  Mary Howitt
 A MOUSE’S story
 wise rats
 the SQUIRREL’S story ..  Anna Harris Smith
 forbearance ..  Ralph Waldo Emerson
 the steel trap ..  Adapted from story by Mrs. C. Fairchild Allen
 the rabbit
 David’s story
 lines from Cowper
 some ready helpers
 A Triumph ..  Celia Thaxter

PART III.

 The canary’s story
 the caged thrush ..  R. F. Murray
 how to care for A canary
 an Indian story
 Hiawatha’s Brothers ..  Henry W. Longfellow
 to the Cuckoo ..  John Logan
 our friends the birds \
 feathered travelers |
 when the birds return > ..  Frank M. Chapman
 birds’ homes |
 the robin /
 robin rejoice ..  Garrett Newkirk
 to A skylark ..  Percy Bysshe Shelley
 frightened birds
 don’t rob the birds, boys ..  Anonymous
 A good shot ..  Adapted
 the goldfinch
 birds’ trades
 the sparrow
 sparrows
 Christmas in Norway ..  Celia Thaxter
 the crow
 the bluebird ..  Emily Huntington Miller
 the farmer’s friend
 the wounded curlew ..  Celia Thaxter
 the sandpiper .. " "
 The cost of A hat
 the halo ..  Rev. W. C. Gannett
 the snowy heron
 winged Fishers
 what the little Seal thinks
 what the young seabird thinks
 what the birds do for us
 the bravest are the TENDEREREST
 lines to A seabird ..  M. A. Stodart
 the true hero
 lines by Susan Coolidge
 selections from Emily Dickinson and S. T. Coleridge
 what the children can do
 to the teacher