But now it was the squirrel's turn to complain. "Is that all?" He darted by a post, along the fence-rails, and up the trunk of a tree, and into the leafy boughs.
#Minnie from little women full
"You go so fast it takes away my breath, and the underbrush all but scratches my eyes out and the grass is full of bugs and ugly caterpillars, that stretch their cold claws to catch at me as I go past." They had not gone far, however, when Minnie called, It was a pretty sight-the little rider and her frisky steed, bounding so gracefully over the road. He would dart on out of sight, and come back for her, again and again he would wait to eat nuts, and dig holes in the ground to bury some against winter-time and still Minnie, for all her hurrying, lagged behind.Īt last squirrel said, "This will never do seat yourself on my back, and I'll carry you faster than any steam-car that ever you saw. "Now we'll have plenty of fun," said squirrel and they started together for the woods.īut Minnie walked so slowly, with her little feet, that her guide soon lost his patience. Thus Minnie's whole form shrank, until she was no taller than squirrel himself, and not half so stout, and her hands were as tiny as his paws. Did you ever drop a kid glove into boiling water? It will keep its former shape, but shrink together so as to be hardly large enough for a doll. Minnie had only half believed what the squirrel said, and was surprised and almost frightened when she felt herself growing smaller in every limb. "Dare? yes, indeed! who's afraid?" She ate the leaves at a mouthful. Do you dare to taste it?" and he tossed the green sprig into Minnie's lap. "The same weed that made me talk like a little girl, will make you grow small as a squirrel. "But I should frighten the squirrels, I'm so large!" and Minnie stood on tip-toe, to let him see what a great girl-as indeed she was, beside a squirrel! We haven't any master, and the whole world's our play-ground the deep earth is our cellar the sun is our lamp and stove." We do nothing but chatter, and eat, and fly about, all day long. "We have good times, I tell you, out in the woods. "Minnie, how should you like to live with us?" he said. "Pray, don't go away yet," called Minnie "I want to know if all squirrels talk, or what you did to learn."ĭown the squirrel jumped into the grass, pulled the blades apart with his paws, and smelt of this weed and that, till at last he found what seemed to satisfy him, for he broke off a sprig, and went back to his seat on the fence. It makes us ache to sit still!" and he ran round and round the rail of the fence, to rest himself. They couldn't keep us quiet on the benches, you see.
#Minnie from little women how to
"Why, who taught you how to talk?" asked Minnie, in surprise. "Come, give us another!" he said, at last, throwing away the shell, and speaking with the queerest little squeaky, grumbling voice.
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