兔子彼得丛书 The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.PDF

THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES By BEATRIX POTTER Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, etc. FREDERICK WARNE CO., INC. NEW YORK 1911 BY FREDERICK WARNE Co. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. BY PRINCETON POLYCHROME PRESS BINDING BY A. HOROWITZ SON FOR MANY UNKNOWN LITTLE FRIENDS, INCLUDING MONICA Once upon a time there was a little fat comfortable grey squirrel, called Timmy Tiptoes. He had a nest thatched with leaves in the top of a tall tree; and he had a little squirrel wife called Goody. Timmy Tiptoes sat out, enj oying the breeze; he whisked his tail and chuckled—Little wife Goody, the nuts are ripe; we must lay up a store for winter and spring. Goody Tiptoes was busy pushing moss under the thatch—The nest is so snug, we shall be sound asleep all winter. Then we shall wake up all the thinner, when there is nothing to eat in spring-time, replied prudent Timothy. When Timmy and Goody Tiptoes came to the nut thicket, they found other squirrels were there already. Timmy took off his j acket and hung it on a twig; they worked away quietly by themselves. Every day they made several j ourneys and picked quantities of nuts. They carried them away in bags, and stored them in several hollow stumps near the tree where they had built their nest. When these stumps were full, they began to empty the bags into a hole high up a tree, that had belonged to a wood-pecker; the nuts rattled down—down—down inside. How shall you ever get them out again? It is like a money-box ! said Goody. I shall be much thinner before spring-time, my love, said Timmy Tiptoes, peeping into the hole. They did collec