“Yes, there was a girl woodchuck named Blinkie and——”
“That’s my sister!” cried Winkie.
“And a boy woodchuck named Blunk!”
“He’s my brother!” cried Winkie. “Oh, where are they? And are my father and mother with Blinkie and Blunk?”
“Well, there are four woodchucks living not far from our beaver dam,” said Toto. “They just moved there last week. They said they had been driven out of their burrow by a big noise, and then, when they were all walking along together to find a new home, they heard another big noise, and they separated. The four of them came together some time later, but the fifth one was lost.”
“I am that fifth one!” cried Winkie.
“I’m beginning to think so!” chuckled Toto. “Come, and I’ll take you to the other woodchucks!”
He led the way. Winkie saw a big pile of grass, sticks, stones, and mud across a pond of water. This was the beaver dam. A little distance off was a smaller pile of dirt near a hole in the side of a hill.
“That’s where the new woodchuck family lives,” said Toto, pointing with his flat tail.
Winkie hurried over. She saw a woodchuck come to the edge of the burrow and look out.