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Title: The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

Author: Beatrix Potter

Release Date: January 25, 2005 [EBook #14797]

Language: English

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THE TALE OF

TIMMY TIPTOES

BEATRIX POTTER

Author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc.

FREDERICK WARNE & CO., INC. NEW YORK

1911

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, enjoying 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 jacket and hung it on a twig; they worked away quietly by themselves.

Every day they made several journeys 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.