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Title: Chunky, the Happy Hippo: His Many Adventures

Author: Richard Barnum

Illustrator: Walter S. Rogers

Release date: May 15, 2020 [eBook #62135]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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Kneetime Animal Stories

CHUNKY
THE HAPPY HIPPO

HIS MANY ADVENTURES

BY

RICHARD BARNUM

Author of “Squinty, the Comical Pig,” “Mappo, the
Merry Monkey,” “Tum Tum, the Jolly
Elephant,” “Tinkle, the Trick Pony,”
“Lightfoot, the Leaping Goat,” etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY

WALTER S. ROGERS

PUBLISHERS
BARSE & CO.
NEW YORK, N. Y.            NEWARK, N. J.

Copyright, 1918
by
BARSE & CO.

Chunky, The Happy Hippo

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I Chunky has a Laugh 7
II Chunky is Surprised 17
III Chunky is Bitten 26
IV Chunky in the Mud 36
V Chunky is Caught 45
VI Chunky Takes a Trip 55
VII Chunky’s New Friends 66
VIII Chunky on a Ship 75
IX Chunky Falls Overboard 84
X Chunky in the Circus 91
XI Chunky’s New Trick 102
XII Chunky and the Little Girl 112

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
“There was Alice on Chunky’s broad back!” Frontispiece
“He went in backward and made a great splash” 15
“It was the crocodile that had bitten Chunky” 35
“Out came Chunky as nicely as you please” 51
“The little hippo boy was being taken away” 65
“Splash! That was Chunky himself falling overboard” 87
“‘Now he is smiling at you!’” 109