The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (12 完)

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin 12

  When they came back very cautiously, peeping round the tree ー there was Old Brown sitting on his door-stepmom quite still, with his eyes closed, as if nothing had happened.

  But Nutkin was in his waist-coat pocket ! 

  This looks like the end of the story ; but it isn't.

  Old Brown carried Nutkin into his house, and held him up by the tail, intending to skin him ; but Nutkin pulled so very hard that his tail broke in two and he dashed up the staircase and escaped out of the attic window.

  And to this days if you meet Nutkin up a tree and ask him a riddle he will throw sticks at your and stamp his feet and scolds and shout ー 

  " Cuck-cuck-cuck-cur-r-r- cuck-k-k ! "

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明日９日はThe Little Princeのみ、午後４時に出ます。
新物語は１２日ぐらいに・・・勘案中です。