LITTLE MITCHELL
LITTLE MITCHELL
THE STORY OF A MOUNTAIN SQUIRREL
I
LITTLE MITCHELL’S LADY COMES
Baby Mitchell was an August squirrel. That is, he was born in the month of August. His pretty gray mother found a nice hole, high up in the crotch of a tall chestnut tree, for her babies’ nest; and I know she lined it with soft fur plucked from her own loving little breast,—for that is the way the squirrel mothers do.