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Title: The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

Author: Beatrix Potter

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THE TALE OF
TIMMY TIPTOES

[Illustration]

By
BEATRIX POTTER

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

[Illustration]

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

[Illustration]

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.

[Illustration]

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.

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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.

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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.

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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