  | “‘I feel the wind,’ cried Ruth, with bright eyes. ‘Dear voice, are you the Wind?’” | Frontispiece | | | PAGE | | “‘Sometimes it seems as if it must be Fairyland all around, only I’m deaf’” | 8 | | | “Ruth, holding Belinda tightly, drew close to the edge of the brook” | 14 | | | “‘How’s that?’ and with a splash a big green and brown frog landed on the stone at her feet” | 15 | | | “‘I am a frog, of course, but my family name is Rana’” | 16 | | | “That nice fat toad in the garden” | 18 | | | “‘I didn’t move, but my tongue did’” | 19 | | | “‘I was soon swimming about with a lot of other tads, slapping tails, and having all kinds of fun’” | 23 | | | “A loud splash and Mr. Rana’s long legs disappeared in the brook” | 24 | | | “‘I’m right over here in the shade’” | 25 | | | “‘The mother spins the cocoon of silk from her own body’” | 38 | | | “‘Why, it’s Daddy Long Legs’” | 46 | | | “‘I made one of these pits and in the funnel end I lay in wait for ants’” | 76 | | | The wise grasshopper | 88 | | | “‘My friends, there are ants and ants’” | 160 | | | “‘Then there are ants who keep slaves’” | 162 | | | “‘Then there are ants who cut pieces from green leaves and carry them as parasols’” | 163 | | | The house of the mound-builder ant | 165 | | | “Vespa Maculata” | 170 | | | The Queen Bee and her bodyguard of drones | 187 | | | “‘Smart children, aren’t they?’ asked some moths” | 203 | | | “‘I am the moon moth, the Luna’” | 213 |
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