If you tell me this riddle, I’ll give you a groat.” He bobbed up and down like a little red cherry, singing-Ī staff in his hand and a stone in his throat Brown, will you favor us with permission to gather nuts upon your island?”īut Nutkin was excessively impertinent in his manners. Then Twinkleberry and the other little squirrels each made a low bow and said politely. They also took an offering of three fat mice as a present for Old Brown and put them down upon his doorstep. They made little rafts out of twigs and paddled away over the water to Owl Island to gather nuts.Įach squirrel had a little sack and a large oar and spread his tail for a sail. Green-nutkin, Twinkleberry, and other little squirrels came out of the wood and down to the edge of the lake. One autumn, when the nuts were ripe, the leaves on the hazel bushes were golden. In the middle of the lake is an island covered with trees and nut bushes amongst those trees stands a hollow oak tree, which is the house of an owl called Old Brown. He had a brother called Twinkleberry and a great many cousins: they lived in a wood at the edge of a lake. This is a Tale about a tail-a-tail that belonged to a little red squirrel named Nutkin. From “The Tale Of Squirrel Nutkin” by Beatrix Potter.
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