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The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel
I CHATTERER THE RED SQUIRREL RUNS FOR HIS LIFE
Chatterer the Red Squirrel had been scolding because there was no
excitement. He had even tried to make some excitement by waking Bobby
Coon and making him so angry that Bobby had threatened to eat him alive.
It had been great fun to dance around and call Bobby names and make fun
of him. Oh, yes, it had been great fun. You see, he knew all the time
that Bobby couldn’t catch him if he should try. But now things were
different. Chatterer had all the excitement that he wanted. Indeed, he
had more than he wanted. The truth is, Chatterer was running for his
life, and he knew it.
It is a terrible thing, a very terrible thing to have to run for one’s
life. Peter Rabbit knows all about it. He has run for his life often.
Sometimes it has been Reddy Fox behind him, sometimes Bowser the Hound,
and once or twice Old Man Coyote. Peter has known that on his long legs
his life has depended, and more than once a terrible fear has filled his
heart. But Peter has also known that if he could reach the old stone
wall or the dear Old Briar-patch first, he would be safe, and he always
has reached it. So when he has been running with that terrible fear in
his heart, there has always been hope there, too.
But Chatterer the Red Squirrel was running without hope. Yes, Sir, there
was nothing but fear, terrible fear, in his heart, for he knew not where
to go. The hollow tree or the holes in the old stone wall where he would
be safe from any one else, even Farmer Brown’s boy, offered him no
safety now, for the one who was following him with hunger in his
anger-red eyes could go anywhere that he could go–could go into any
hole big enough for him to squeeze into. You see, it was Shadow the
Weasel from
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