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Title: Whiffet Squirrel

Author: Julia Greene

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WHIFFET SQUIRREL

Written and Pictured by

JULIA GREENE

New York
Cupples & Leon Company

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THE MAKE-BELIEVE SERIES

Whiffet Squirrel The Mouse's Tail
The Yaller Dog Miss Patty Peep

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Copyright, 1917, by
Cupples & Leon Company

WHIFFET SQUIRREL

Whiffet, Skiffet and Skud were three little red squirrels who lived
with their father and mother in a tiny brown house in the old chestnut
tree. First, I must tell you how the Squirrel family came to live in
this dear little house. You see it happened this way. Father and
Mother Squirrel started out very early one morning in the spring, to
hunt a new home as they did not feel safe any longer living under the
old pine stump, with the children getting large enough to run about.
They both scampered up the old chestnut tree at the back of the farm
house to see if they could find a nice deep hollow that would make a
safe home for their little ones. When Mother Squirrel had gone about
half way up the tree trunk, and as she climbed around a big limb, she
almost bumped her head against what seemed to be a brownish wall. She
peeped around the corner of the brownish wall and what do you suppose
she saw? She held her breath in rapture for there before her bright
little eyes sat the cutest little brown house resting right on the big
limb. It was far more wonderful th