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    The Adventures of Squirrel Nutkin & Friends (8 Books with 260+ Original Illustrations in One Volume): The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The Tale of Mr. Tod, The Tale of Pigling Bland
    The Adventures of Squirrel Nutkin & Friends (8 Books with 260+ Original Illustrations in One Volume): The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The Tale of Mr. Tod, The Tale of Pigling Bland
    The Adventures of Squirrel Nutkin & Friends (8 Books with 260+ Original Illustrations in One Volume): The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The Tale of Mr. Tod, The Tale of Pigling Bland
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    The Adventures of Squirrel Nutkin & Friends (8 Books with 260+ Original Illustrations in One Volume): The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The Tale of Mr. Tod, The Tale of Pigling Bland

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    "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin" is about an impertinent red squirrel named Nutkin and his narrow escape from an owl called Old Brown.
    "The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle" - Mrs. Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog washerwoman who lives in a tiny cottage in the fells of the Lake District. A child named Lucie happens upon the cottage and stays for tea.
    "The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher" - Jeremy Fisher is a frog who lives in a "slippy-sloppy" house at the edge of a pond. One rainy day he collects worms for fishing, and sets off across the pond on his lily-pad boat.
    "The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck": Jemima is a domestic duck of the Aylesbury breed, whose eggs are routinely confiscated by the farmer's wife because she believes Jemima a poor sitter. Jemima searches for a place away from the farm where she can hatch her eggs without human interference, and naively confides her woes to a fox…
    "The Tale of Ginger and Pickles" tells of two shopkeepers who extend unlimited credit to their customers and, as a result, are forced to go out of business.
    "The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes" - Timmy Tiptoes is a squirrel believed to be a nut-thief by his fellows, and imprisoned by them in a hollow tree with the expectation that he will confess under confinement.
    "The Tale of Mr. Tod" is about a badger called Tommy Brock and his arch enemy Mr. Tod, a fox. Brock kidnaps the children of Benjamin Bunny and his wife Flopsy, intending to eat them, and hides them in an oven in the home of Mr. Tod.
    "The Tale of Pigling Bland" describes the adventures of the pig of the title and how his life changes upon meeting a soul mate, in much the same way that Potter's life was changing at the time the book was published.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publishere-artnow
    Release dateMay 30, 2016
    ISBN9788026864554
    The Adventures of Squirrel Nutkin & Friends (8 Books with 260+ Original Illustrations in One Volume): The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The Tale of Mr. Tod, The Tale of Pigling Bland
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    Beatrix Potter

    Helen Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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      The Adventures of Squirrel Nutkin & Friends (8 Books with 260+ Original Illustrations in One Volume) - Beatrix Potter

      The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

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      This is a tale about a tail – a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was Nutkin.

      He had a brother called Twinkleberry, and a great many cousins; they lived in a wood at the edge of a lake.

      In the middle of the lake there is an island covered with trees and nut bushes; and amongst those trees stands a hollow oak-tree, which is the house of an owl who is called Old Brown.

      One autumn when the nuts were ripe, and the leaves on the hazel bushes were golden and green – Nutkin and Twinkleberry and all the other little squirrels came out of the wood, and down to the edge of the lake.

      They made little rafts out of twigs, and they paddled away over the water to Owl Island to gather nuts.

      Each squirrel had a little sack and a large oar, and spread out his tail for a sail.

      They also took with them an offering of three fat mice as a present for Old Brown, and put them down upon his door-step.

      Then Twinkleberry and the other little squirrels each made a low bow, and said politely —

      Old Mr. Brown, will you favour us with permission to gather nuts upon your island?

      But Nutkin was excessively impertinent in his manners. He bobbed up and down like a little red cherry, singing —

      "Riddle me, riddle me, rot-tot-tote!

      A little wee man, in a red red coat!

      A staff in his hand, and a stone in his throat;

      If you’ll tell me this riddle, I’ll give you a groat."

      Now this riddle is as old as the hills; Mr. Brown paid no attention whatever to Nutkin.

      He shut his eyes obstinately and went to sleep.

      The squirrels filled their little sacks with nuts, and sailed away home in the evening.

      But next morning they all came back again to Owl Island; and Twinkleberry and the others brought a fine fat mole, and laid it on the stone in front of Old Brown’s doorway, and said —

      Mr. Brown, will you favour us with your gracious permission to gather some more nuts?

      But Nutkin, who had no respect, began to dance up and down, tickling old Mr. Brown with a nettle and singing —

      "Old Mr. B! Riddle-me-ree!

      Hitty Pitty within the wall,

      Hitty Pitty without the wall;

      If you touch Hitty Pitty,

      Hitty Pitty will bite you!"

      Mr. Brown woke up suddenly and carried the mole into his house.

      He shut the door in Nutkin’s face. Presently a little thread of blue smoke from a wood fire came up from the top of the tree, and Nutkin peeped through the key-hole and sang —

      "A house full, a hole full!

      And you cannot gather a bowl-full!"

      The squirrels searched for nuts all over the island and filled their little sacks.

      But Nutkin gathered oak-apples – yellow and scarlet – and sat upon a beech-stump playing marbles, and watching the door of old Mr. Brown.

      On the third day the squirrels got up very early and went fishing; they caught seven fat minnows as a present for Old Brown.

      They paddled over the lake and landed under a crooked chestnut tree on Owl Island.

      Twinkleberry and six other little squirrels each carried a fat minnow; but Nutkin, who had no nice manners, brought no present at all. He ran in front, singing —

      "The man in the wilderness said to me,

      ‘How many strawberries grow in the sea?’

      I answered him as I thought good–

      ‘As many red herrings as grow in the wood.’"

      But old Mr. Brown took no interest in riddles – not even when the answer was provided for him.

      On the fourth day the squirrels brought a present of six fat beetles, which were as good as plums in plum-pudding for Old Brown. Each beetle was wrapped up carefully in a dock-leaf, fastened with a pine-needle pin.

      But Nutkin sang as rudely as ever —

      "Old Mr. B! Riddle-me-ree!

      Flour of England, fruit of Spain,

      Met together in a shower of rain;

      Put in a bag tied round with a string,

      If you’ll tell me this riddle, I’ll give you a ring!"

      Which was ridiculous of Nutkin, because he had not got any ring to give to Old Brown.

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