THE TALE OF

TIMMY TIPTOES

By

BEATRIX POTTER

Author of"The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc.

FREDERICK WARNE & CO., INC.NEW YORK

1911

BY

FREDERICK WARNE & Co.

PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. BY
PRINCETON POLYCHROME PRESS

BINDING BY
A. HOROWITZ & SON

FOR

MANY UNKNOWN LITTLE FRIENDS,

INCLUDING MONICA

Once upon a time there was a little fat comfortable grey squirrel, calledTimmy Tiptoes. He had a nest thatched with leaves in the top of a talltree; and he had a little squirrel wife called Goody.

Timmy Tiptoes sat out, enjoying the breeze; he whisked his tail andchuckled—"Little wife Goody, the nuts are ripe; we must lay up a storefor winter and spring." Goody Tiptoes was busy pushing moss under thethatch—"The nest is so snug, we shall be sound asleep all winter." "Thenwe shall wake up all the thinner, when there is nothing to eat inspring-time," replied prudent Timothy.

When Timmy and Goody Tiptoes came to the nut thicket, they found othersquirrels were there already.

Timmy took off his jacket and hung it on a twig; they worked away quietlyby themselves.

Every day they made several journeys and picked quantities of nuts. Theycarried them away in bags, and stored them in several hollow stumps nearthe tree where they had built their nest.

When these stumps were full, they began to empty the bags into a hole highup a tree, that had belonged to a wood-pecker; the nuts rattleddown—down—down inside.

"How shall you ever get them out again? It is like a money-box!" saidGoody.

"I shall be much thinner before spring-time, my love," said Timmy Tiptoes,peeping into the hole.

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