Mrs. Wren where she could get the squirrel's old nest for a home, they felt very happy. They ran along,

s sister. "It's just as if Christmas was coming, or some

ho was very wise for a l

paused to nibble at a sweet root t

"We did the little brown bird a kindness in showing her the squirrel's

sure?" as

when you do any one a kindness," she went on. "Once I wanted to go out and play, and I couldn't, because Nurse Fuzzy-Wuzzy was away and m

"I am glad Mrs. Wren has a nice home, anyhow. But I

afraid when the wind b

er underground in our b

e high up in the air. But I don't like it. Once I went away up on top of Farmer Tooker's woodpile, bec

et roots, or juicy leaves, which they ate. They paused every once in a while to look over the tops of lit

om their home. The edge of the stream had ice on it, for,

. I am going to have a

cautioned his sister

r brother, and he took a run and slid along t

on the ice, when Sammie, who had taken an extra l

screamed. "I've fall

and she stood up on her hind legs a

edge of the ice, and shivered in the cold water, while, with her teeth, Susie gnawed a branch from a tree. The branch she held out to her brother, who grasped it in his mouth and was soon pull

and drink some hot sassafras tea, so you w

ey got to their burrow, Sammie was quite warm. Down the front door hol

n swimming! Didn't I tell y

swimming, moth

our hair is all w

im, and said he guessed he would have to give Sammie and Susie some lessons in swimmin