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THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN
By Beatrix Potter
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THE other squirrels hunted up and down the nut bushes; but Nutkin gathered robin’s pincushions off a briar bush, and stuck them full of pine-needle pins.
 
Illustration from the classic children's story The Tale Of Squirrel Nutkin, by Beatrix Potter



ON the fifth day the squirrels brought a present of wild honey; it was so sweet and sticky that they licked their fingers as they put it down upon the stone. They had stolen it out of a bumble bees’ nest on the tippitty top of the hill.

But Nutkin skipped up and down, singing--

   “Hum-a-bum! buzz! buzz! Hum-a-bum buzz!
    As I went over Tipple-tine
    I met a flock of bonny swine;
 Some yellow-nacked, some yellow backed!
    They were the very bonniest swine
    That e’er went over Tipple-tine.”
 
Illustration from the classic children's story The Tale Of Squirrel Nutkin, by Beatrix Potter

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