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Title: The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

Author: Beatrix Potter

Release Date: February 2, 2005 [EBook #14872]

Language: English

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THE TALE OF

SQUIRREL NUTKIN

BEATRIX POTTER

Author of " The Tale of Peter Rabbit "

FREDERICK WARNE

1903 by Frederick Warne & Co.

Printed and bound in Great Britain by William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London

A STORY FOR NORAH

This is a Tale about a tail—a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was

Nutkin.

He had a brother called Twinkleberry, and a great many cousins: they lived in a wood at the

edge of a lake.

In the middle of the lake there is an island covered with trees and nut bushes; and amongst

those trees stands a hollow oak-tree, which is the house of an owl who is called Old Brown.

One autumn when the nuts were ripe, and the leaves on the hazel bushes were golden and

green—Nutkin and Twinkleberry and all the other little squirrels came out of the wood, and

down to the edge of the lake.

They made little rafts out of twigs, and they paddled away over the water to Owl Island to

gather nuts.

Each squirrel had a little sack and a large oar, and spread out his tail for a sail.