Tiny Redsquirrel
The
SQUIRREL’S
PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
A Book for Boys and Girls
BY
J. D. WILLIAMS
Setting Forth the Adventures of Tiny Red Squirreland Chatty Chipmunk
And describing Miss Hare’s School; Red Squirrel, Chipmunk,Reynard Fox, Pussy Cat, and Other Students, as wellas Mr. Wise Owl, a Director of the School,and Billy Beaver, the Janitor.
FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. WOOD
(FIVE COLORED PLATES)
CHICAGO
LAIRD & LEE, Inc., PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY LAIRD & LEE, Inc.
Once on a time a little boy was taken from the noiseand bustle of city life to a sparsely settled land where agreat forest stretched away in every direction. To this landhis parents came to make a home in the heart of the deepwood. A large log house had been built in an open spacefrom which great oaks, beeches, maples and other trees hadbeen removed, and here, surrounded by nature’s forms andactivities, they lived many years.
What a delightful experience this was to this little boy!How wonderful this new world seemed to him! Here wereflowers of every hue, bees, birds, butterflies, and manyother interesting things to excite his childish wonder. Hesoon learned the names of the shrubs, the trees, the wildfruits and the flowers; and the habits of the honey gatherers,the feathered folk, and the little animals of the wood.
This story has its foundation in these experiences andwas written in the hope that it will prove interesting andinstructive to many children. It teaches its young readersto see material things as they really are, so that the earlyimpressions shall always be the true ones; it teaches them toapply the same habit of careful observation to language forms[vi]and constructions, so they shall know how thoughts must beexpressed, and more than that, how they may be expressedbeautiful