"Of course you must stay," invited Aunt Squeaky. "Buster will fetch plenty of berries."
They had a jolly tea-party with a delicious strawberry cake for dessert to celebrate the first time that Wink and Wiggle had come to the table since the automobile accident.
The next day, Hopsy and Webbie came to go nutting. They carried bags for the chestnuts. Buster took a basket also, for barberries.
They had good fun picking the brown nuts from the soft, silky linings of the burrs.
"The burrs are prickly and the barberry bushes are prickly," said Hopsy.
"Perhaps they are trying to say 'Touch me not!' But we will pick them just the same," laughed Buster.
"Let's get a bouquet of pretty leaves," said Webbie. "Ma would like some for her parlor."
"There are lovely gold and scarlet leaves on that stone wall," said Buster. "Let's climb and get them."
They were pulling eagerly at the sprays of bright leaves, when along trotted Simon Skunk.