The adventures of Mr. Mocker is written by Thornton W. Burgess. To bring joy and gladness to the Green Meadows and the Green Forest, the Laughing Brook, and the Smiling Pool, Mistress Spring begins from far to the South. Winsome Bluebird goes just a little way ahead of her, for he is the herald of Mistress Spring. When all the other little people in feathers had flown to that faraway country, then did this friend of Ol' Mistah Buzzard make up his mind that he would go too. He didn't say anything about it to anyone, but he just started off by himself. Uncle Billy Possum and Mr. Mocker had a moonlight party in the Green Forest. When they heard about it, they became anxious to see the stranger with the wonderful voice. Peter Rabbit followed him around just to hear him fool others by making his voice sound like theirs. When he learned that some people believed Mr. Mocker had not obtained his voice honestly, Ol' Mistah Buzzard chuckled.
Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 17, 1874 - June 5, 1965) was an American conservationist and children's author. He was often known as the Bedtime Story-Man, after his newspaper column Bedtime Stories. Up till his retirement, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories. His father was an immediate ancestor of Thomas Burgess, one of the original inhabitants of Sandwich in 1637. Burgess wrote his first stories under the pen name W. B. Thornton. Burgess continued to write books for the next 50 years, and they were translated into several languages, including French, Gaelic, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. Between 1895 and 1962, Burgess "nearly 900" tales, poems, and scientific studies to publications. Included in this total are 201 children's stories written for People's Home Journal. Every issue of Burgess magazine from May 1913 until the magazine demise in December 1929 included a children's tale for more than 16 years. Burgess' final book, Now I Remember, Autobiography of an Amateur Naturalist, was released in 1960. At the age of 86, Burgess penned his 15,000th newspaper column the same year. At the age of 91, he passed away on June 5th, 1965. A year prior, his son had passed quite unexpectedly.
