Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 341
ING FOR HIM 786 SQUIRREL-FOLK As I panted after Chickaree, he sprang lightlyfrom the top of one of the trees, down the slope ofthe roof of the house, scurried along the ridge-pole,and, right in front of my eyes, flashed in betweenthe shutter-bars and was safe at home. It wasreally an ideal place… … THE LITTLE RED THIEF HAD DONE HIS DAMAGE guiltiest secret. When I lived nearer the wild-folk than I do now, close by my sleeping-porchgrew a great white-oak tree. The spot where itstands used to be the end of a bare hilltop, and thetree had grown, accordingly, more in girth than inheight. In deep…
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