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WILLIAM DONAHEY
New
York
WHITTLESEY HOUSE
Inc.
London
William Donahey
reproduced
in
may
not be
Second
Printing
division of the
Inc.
Contents
i.
Uppity Orioles
2.
Tompkins
15
3.
Ginky
20
4.
Tilly Titter
26
5-
Skippy
32
6.
37
7.
A Bad Neighbor
44
8.
51
9-
Jack
o.
A New
Lost Chicken
57
Neighbor
62
List of Illustrations
Found Skippy
PAGE
Gogo managed
The
to
at the
chimney
23
39
....
49
......
54
*"
29
ground
the bird
59
63
a great
many
One
briers,
go.
the
same reason
as the
pleasant neighbors
that the
is
among
live
near
town stands
in
Teenie Weenies
brushy spot
to
for exactly
big folks.
It isn't
and
all
so very small.
little
creatures
Once
folks.
Teenie Weenie
Town
stands.
The
ball
laundry and rolled into the old teapot, completely wrecking the
tiny steps that lead
up
but
chap.
if
it
banana
should
fall
dangerous to him as
doorway.
to the
it
peel
If the
last of that
by big people,
would be
for a big
quaint
just as
roof of a large house hit him. It takes three or four of the strongest
always
live in places
would love
a Teenie
would
That
why
to capture a
go.
like to
is
like that
it
big people
in a cage,
but
Many
is
why
The
little
people have found out that the birds and animals can be most
neighborly and helpful, and the Teenie Weenies often help the birds
and animals
is
one of
He
helps the Teenie Weenies dig their vegetables with his sharp claws.
He
sometimes pulls
when
their sled
up nuts
for
winter use, and the Teenie Weenies help Nick gather nuts for his
own
storehouse.
The
They supply
the
for
happens and
return for this friendly help, the Teenie Weenies help the birds build
their nests. In winter,
hard to
hungry
It
find, the
is
is
Some
of the birds
and animals
There
is
seldom a
Town
are wise
and some
make a very
dull moment in
briers
the
birds.
neighbors.
more
when
stands.
pleasant
are
life
the tangle of
CHAPTER
Uppity Orioles
(jOGO
at
some
The
little
soon
brown hash. Gogo began to nod his head with the even clop of the
tiny hash knife and presently broke into an old Teenie Weenie song.
"De fish is in de watah, a-paddlin' wid his fin;
in
for the
baked
raisin
that
we
are going to
"How
"A
bird
is
his
Weenie Town.
tall tree
that
"What
Gogo wiped
set the
bird," he said,
wid de
ought
to find
fine nest.
time lookin'
floor.
fo'
Maybe
string
and
We
horsehairs.
flyiri'."
nests.
make
little
The
easily find
horsehairs
them.
and
laid
bits
them out
tried
them. At
first
the
little
because they knew the birds were very busy building their nest and
had
little
time
finished, the
for visiting.
her
the
young
sitting
been
When
us.
to
break
my
back luggin'
caterpillars to
such
uppity neighbors."
"I don't think they are uppity," put in the Cowboy.
are just quiet birds
and they
"They
young
"Well,
summer
without paying
much
went about
the orioles
their affairs
little
and
so the-
little folks
Some
of the vegetables
in the
The
One
little
people had
stalk
Teenie Weenie
off
by a
had
been very dry. The Teenie Weenies had carried hundreds of thimblefuls of
Corn
is
tremendous amount of
this
It is
really the
which
The
is
would
when
slices
people always
little
staff of
life,
and
they
like to store
the
for
hungry
their
corn.
It
without
corn,
so
little
people
began
from
the
year
before
and
left
of course
their storehouse.
They
but
the
mallard
ducks
had
//
eaten
fcltl//
/Jul
loss
most of
it
and the
little
folks
grains.
"We
down
the
Cowboy.
leg.
Most
To reach
of the
little
would have
to travel through
It
had been
reported that several weasels lived near the cornfield and a weasel
the last animal a Teenie
to meet.
Teenie Weenies
were salting frog hams near the tomato can that the
used
for
The
at the
said
is
down and
little
settled
folks
on the
Teenie Weenies.
the Dunce.
attention to him."
The
little
two
Town. There,
right in the
There were
fresh
and landed
his
it
was plain
12
wagon
had
tracks
fallen off
the farmer's
he
shoe house as
fast as his
"We
off the road. It will take too long to shell the corn there,
may come
ears
and a car
to the
Weenie windlass.
the
When
of the string
was fastened
to a
Teenie
As
Weenie men
moved
13
it
along,
some
for a track,
while
others kept placing pencils in front of the corn as fast as they rolled
and
left it
little,
they
moved
on a
some
oriole flew
"Me
tell
what he had
down and
asters.
bowing
to the
"Well, drown
to see the
said.
Chinaman, and
the' little
was plain
it
settled
chap began
bird
seemed
great rate
to
and
me
in a thimbleful of molasses
if
you!" exclaimed the Dunce. "I thought that was an uppity bird
and now he turns out to be most unuppity."
"That's just what I've been telling you
bird doesn't
want
all
summer,"
to loaf
said the
around you
is
no
Several
unprincipled
might be best
to place a
it
night.
The
their storehouse.
little
nails that
into crow-
to the
~^f^\
filled their
ple
storeroom.
away
Now
14
nearly
little
of food to last
for
peo-
them
the
it
When
who
wasn't
CHAPTER
Tompkins
JVLany
and
of the birds
mice
criticized
far
Tompkins was a
were always
little folks
reputation.
The mice
them scampering
Even some
Ginky
all
Tompkins'
Teenie Weenies.
in
If
faults,
ers
happens
to
birds were
Dunce that
The Teenie
amount
to
had
is
much.
an unfriendly
the
told
young chickens.
In spite of
sent
Tompkins had
The
him
on Tompkins
for
away.
Once several
the creek.
As the
of the Teenie
little
fine
up
the
15
minnows
trail to
in
the
Teenie Weenie
village,
insisted that
Tompkins grabbed
"Why did
fish?"
isn't
few weeks
tell
fish
a useful friend."
words proved
true, for
Tomp-
The smokehouse
to the ground,
but
it
is
it
tightly
rat started
The General sent word to Tompkins who, for once, wasn't carousing. The cat came immediately
and chased the rat away. The Teenie Weenies haven't been bothered
by rats since. Now even the Dunce believes that it pays to have the
to
gnaw through
good
will of
that door.
Not long
after
like
them
or not.
young
rabbits,
"That Tompkins
said
when
is
who were
made
for the
tree
off with a
Teenie Weenies
Lady
we ought
to
of Fashion
have any-
is
but
it
we
him. As long as
able to
and
we
refuse to
have anything
to
do with
One
woods
are
if
to gather beechnuts.
started
They
went over
to the big
filled
prowling near.
to investigate. In a
Tompkins was
Cook
sitting
"No,
and
Lady
of Fashion.
"He was
Tompkins
The
sat.
half-closed eyes
"He
to the place
little folks
where
through
his
at their greetings.
man
"Him
saw
if
glass
and
it
no make him
eat
muchie
better."
carefully.
"Just as
lot
of
meat
lately
"He
say,"
said the
"My
"Tell
sick.
ratses,
Tompkins
that he
And make
Chinaman
it
strong
Tompkins
him and
for
when you
tell
listened to the
at the General.
rabbits. That's
it's
bad
why
he's
him."
interest
and
some medicine.
The Chinaman told the Doctor what the cat had asked and the
Doctor took several tiny pills out of a small box which he always
carried with him. "Tell Tompkins to take one of these pills after
each mouse or rat, but not to eat rabbits under any circumstances,"
warned the Doctor, "and tell him to stay home and not to be running the alleys at
all
The Chinaman
Doctor's message to
Then
for
his
and delivered
the
head in agreement.
word
of thanks, but
what one would expect from a cat that would eat young
However, the Doctor's advice must have been heeded by
that's just
rabbits.
the cat, for the Teenie Weenies haven't heard of a single rabbit being
it
19
'"'(Cc"
Ginky
vJ N E
most troublesome.
enough
He
is
harm
really to
Ginky
some
is
is
a mouse.
the
little folks,
fight
He
He
when
they
into
with him.
is
lazy,
he
lies,
the
is
He spends
Ginky
Ginky
Yes,
Ginky
is
and mother
it
in a trap accident
up
way
when he was
When
the Teenie
met Ginky, they were sorry for him and tried to help
him, but their kindness was lost on the disreputable creature. After
he had broken into the shoe house while the Teenie Weenies were
away one day and had eaten up a thimbleful of doughnuts, the
Weenies
first
little folks
jail
is
fruit jar
didn't help
Ginky any,
for,
put.
and metal
However, the
20
there.
He had
eat. After
a few days
the Teenie Weenies grew tired of supporting the lazy mouse, so they
him out. Ginky wouldn't leave the jail and the little men
drag him out by force. That was one of the times he bit the
tried to let
had
to
Policeman.
Ginky loved
He
if
that's
to
be served.
how he knew
are fortunate
enough
Chinaman
to receive
an invitation
where
lives
little
for
one of the
for several
He scrubbed the
He hammered four
it
was
made
three noodles,
and
pre-
many
make
his
dinners so good.
Ginky received
ing party.
ing cakes
com-
the teapot
chimney.
which
He
looked through a
window
rice
The
made the
mouse's mouth
knocked boldly
When
the
fairly
water,
and he
at the door.
Chinaman had
pulled
21
'
the telephone slug which he used for a griddle off the stove, he
his
nose in
"Gonna have
me
"Yes,
You
is,"
same
Chinaman.
"Me
away now."
"Are you going to invite me?" asked Ginky.
"No, Glinky," said the Chinaman shaking his head. "You velly
allie
glo
bad mouses."
"But
I'll
promise to be good,
if
you
let
me come
to
your party."
You
me some
velly
bad mouses."
of those cakes
same me
the Chinaman.
"Allie
glive
you
me
man
tlee clakes
six
and
thing.
I'll
He
if
tried to
angry mouse.
with you
for this,"
broken window.
Ginky screamed
to invite
won't stand
for. I'll
you
22
Chinaman through
at the
if I
me
and
lose
to his party
that's
my
tail
the
without
one thing
doing
it."
at the
chimney
to the laundry
of the
village.
in the
window and by
the Doctor,
He
door.
the
to
had already
sat
down
ladies
it
began
as the General,
he tiptoed
on
When
village.
at the table
soup plates
in.
and the
in front of
bits of crispy
noodles floating
top.
When
the chowder
had been
acorn-shell
bowl of frog
ham chop
bowl with
six
angry that
his whiskers
"I'll fix
eaten, the
Chinaman
set a big
twitched and
his tail
it.
Ginky was so
ached.
The mouse
is
of the teapot.
the rag
down
of the teapot
began
to
fill
Making
his
way
Then he leaped
all
came run-
The Chinaman
in
it,
at him.
his
"Oh you
clenched
fists
nasty
at him.
"Ginky!" shouted the General. "Take that rag out and get
right
"Ah, don't
eral of the
fool with
"Get
I'll
arrest
"Why
to the teapot,
jail for
and who
don't you do
it?
I've
weeks."
if
we put you
in jail,"
shouted the Policeman. "You'll stay there without food until you
make
promises unless
retorted, glar-
While the
little folks
away and
Weenie ladder.
He placed it against the side of the teapot and climbed up with a
sharp needle in his hand. Ginky saw him and leaped to the ground
before the Turk could jab him. Some of the little men tried to catch
the mouse, but he managed to dodge them and vanished into the
slipped
thick grass
and weeds.
teapot windows had been opened the wind soon blew out the smoke.
The Policeman
Weenies finished
patrolled
around
the
W, vaWY'/,
25
teapot
CHAPTER 4
vAVJ/A
^
Tilly Titter
J INKS
that led
up
on the edge
Gogo and
yo'
is
down on
Dunce had
he sat
the steps
the
"Yo'
as
swimming
pool.
"Ah sometimes
think
hungrier after you eat a meal than befo' you eat. Yo' about de
eatinist
"Well,
said the
is."
Dunce, "and
believe
to a
Gogo
comfortable in a watahmelon
fo'
"Ah
folks
threw away.
to ask the
it
live right
quite a spell."
reckon ah could
all
ever since
we
Cook
if
we
can't have
some
up a batch of taffy."
The Dunce jumped up and started towards
Gogo said, "We bettah finish dis work first."
"Ah, shucks!" growled the Dunce.
any time."
26
"We
so
we can make
pool. You-all
de house without
de General
work. Suah as ah
The Dunce
up
Gogo
is
sighed and,
warm
standin' heah,
keep de
rain,
de
ovah to
said
much
Gogo walked
leaves, an'
de
dirt out.
"Dat
When de weathah is
in place.
Gogo picked up
hammer
had
that they
used to drive in the stakes, and the two Teenie Weenies set off
the shoe house, where the
for
is
pool.
dat cover
and he started
roofing paper with which the Teenie
swimming
their
taffy until
is
Weenies covered
it
is
finishin' dis
dragged
make any
let yo'
permission to
make
for
the General
taffy.
have
When
to get the
the
found the Cook washing out some Teenie Weenie dish towels.
had
he didn't
like the
He
will
muss everything up
all
over
the place."
"I'll
clean
it
up when we're
through."
"Yes,
When
Gogo promised to see that everything was put back in place, however, the Cook gave him permission, for Gogo is extremely neat and
clean and he usually keeps his promises.
21
of molasses
"You can
he
in,"
half a thimbleful
metal top of a
Weenie
stove.
Gogo
is
Dunce brought
wood from the pile
it
into the
for the
When
had
the candy
little
Gogo
chaps
set
Some
was stuck
"My
one of
is
really the
all
feet.
bird.
She
the neighborhood.
and they
day and
flies
bright
It's 'ot."
for she
for she
gives the
drops
little folks
down under
the news of
all
little
happens.
candy clung
so fast that
managed
dodge
in
pan and
tight to the
to
number
to
of Teenie
to free her
wipe her
bill
it.
it
it
flew around
Finally
Gogo
free of Tilly's
frantically
on the
28
Gogo managed
to
bird
and
feet.
"What
in the world
was
it
in that
glue?"
'
"How did
'ave
my
touched
didn't
it.
know what
'appened to drop
sittin'
down
for
Cook.
candy.
share.
up your
wouldn't 'ave
saw
so
"Oh, that's all right, Tilly," said the Dunce. "We have another
pan left and that will be enough to give us all a bite."
The Dunce took the other pan of candy from the woodpile and
carried it into the kitchen. Then Gogo and the Dunce washed their
hands and rubbed a drop of hickory-nut oil on their tiny fingers.
"What's that for?" asked Tilly, who had stuck her head through
the kitchen door and was watching the two Teenie Weenies with
much
interest.
"We
the
oil
on our hands
"My
that
oil
Gogo and
pull his share
candy began
it
before
was quite a
sampled the
the
bird. "I
Dunce divided
as big a piece of
candy
as a
'ad
known about
it
When
of
wish
sticky stuff."
is
about
30
"You
fellows go out
"The
as they
it
Don't leave
it
here.
were cutting up
town, either."
with
it
Tilly,
"That was
my bill and
my
I
fault. I
ought to clean
it
up
again."
"You
and tuck
all
it
in a piece of
it
away," Gogo
paper so
when
it
won't
it
with yo'
it
and
up
yo'
yo' fly
it
miles
see
if I
"That
"Well,
it's
nice of
down
mouth
so he could talk.
to the creek."
you not
to
be angry at me,
after
spoiled
up
package, the bird spread her wings and disappeared over the top of
the tangled rosebushes that stretch their thorny protection over the
tiny village.
CHAPTER
Skippy
OKIPPY
had
been
The
shot.
came
news
dreadful
to
the
their
bedroom.
Skippy
is
a cheerful chipmunk
far
on
rides
Weenies and
his back.
He knows
where the best beechnuts and hazelnuts can be found and he tells
them when the frost grapes are ripe. He climbs the tall nut trees and
cuts off the nuts for them.
Tilly Titter brought the
screaming at the top of her voice even before she had landed on the
ground
"Something dreadful
'as
"Oh, no!"
that
saw 'im
'it.
bird.
screamed
hope
it is
Tilly.
"I 'ad
32
a mistake."
it
tree
from a bluejay
when some
big
limped when
"How
'e
my
"I'll get
ran into
this
The jay
said he
was
'it
in the
back
'ole."
'is
look at Skippy," said the Doctor and, running into the shoe house,
asked
if
medicine case.
his tiny
the bird
would
fly
and,
when
you there
the Doctor
in a jiffy."
had climbed onto her back, she spread her wings and flew
the direction of Skippy's
man. "He
is
is
no
off in
home.
he
to Skippy's hole.
down
Tilly squatted
them
to Tilly,
to
him."
for us."
still
about Skippy, Tilly Titter flew back into the town. "The Doctor
wants a
lot of
flint
and
'e
for the
Cook
to
come
steel so 'e
can make a
fire
"Did you
see
down
into
bird.
any old
"Skippy
'ole
is
down
in
'is
'ole
and I'm
"The Doctor says 'e thinks Skippy 'as a bad 'urt," Tilly said.
"The Doctor says it is so dark down in the 'ole 'e can't see well, and
that's why 'e wants the lamps."
The Cook, who had gone into the kitchen, soon returned with a
thimble in which he had stuffed four Teenie Weenie sheets and two
Teenie Weenie lamps. The lamp bowls were made from cherry
33
"One
of
you
fellows
had
oil.
the
bird.
better
come along," he
said.
"You
might be needed."
"I'll
who
for a ride.
When
The Doctor
the
told the
fire.
"He
believe the
bone
is
broken, but
left leg,"
I'll
over the
fire
The
Turk and the Cook kept up a hot fire and it wasn't long before the
water began to boil. The Doctor lit the two little lamps at the fire.
Handing one to the General and telling the Turk and the Cook to
follow with the water, he started
down
the hole.
it
34
Then he and
the
by the
The
water.
light of the
it
moss and
tiny lamps,
the
Doctor cut away the fur from the wound. Then he gently washed
clean.
He examined
the
wound
carefully
and took a
it
Anyhow
he
said.
The
chip-
whether he under-
knew
that
little tool,
he probed around
removed
It
it.
"Now
was a BB
me
let
thimble was
set
Weenie
plyers,
wound
When
again.
strips
Weenie
around the
leg,
leg
the
Next
he
shot.
down
he found
much
painful, but
as twitched a whisker.
On
the
way
It
little
35
storage places. It
was
full
and a
lot
of various seeds.
to
"They look a bit musty," said the Doctor. "I believe he ought
have some fresher nuts to eat until he gets over this hurt."
"I'll ask the men to bring over some of the nuts we found the
day behind the grocery store," said the General. "There are
several kinds among them, and that will give Skippy a little variety."
other
The
into
one of
number
to Skippy' s
He
home.
ages on his leg and the other Teenie Weenies saw that the
had plenty
He limped
up
of water. Skippy
for over
a week, but
it
to
of nuts
chipmunk
walk out of
his hole.
36
CHAPTER
,/tvt .i-
'
"
"^
>
-Sv
is
little
They
people trade.
and ask
the
little
a Teenie
would be a
Weenie should
many
people do get
clerk doesn't
One
for
if
it
raisins.
folks really
come
step
But
and the
there.
of the Teenie
!"
soft.
He
Cook.
tiny
and trooped
warm
of Fashion,
who
table.
their
Lady
little
coil of
men
pulled
it
37
much
off as
who
Turk,
crosscut saw.
it
it
the
all
bad end
of the
about one-fourth of an
little folks
would be able
to eat
spoiled.
"This
leave
about
is
slice
is
here to spoil."
"We
could drag
Policeman.
"He
it
over to the
Rhyming Rabbit,"
suggested the
with
his hole
to
him."
"Why do we
ways have
it
all this
al-
to
"He
crippled.
We
has done
many
closest
neighbors,"
and
answered the
and
he's old
if
we
bad
won't get
much chance
if
you have
to give
up a
If I
help
to skate."
little
of your pleasure to
help a sick old rabbit," said the General. "Just suppose you had a
terrible
many
stomachache, such
as
fellow?"
"Y-e-s,
This
is
just
"Old
this
is
different.
an old rabbit."
38
The
"It seems to
me you
not
for
a
It
hill or
it
towards the
Rhyming
was quite
hilly
little
it
do a
lot of
was quite a
men
often
had
The banana
task to pull
to stop
it
and
up
rest.
Rabbit's hole.
banana and
hill.
the
it.
Chinaman
When
they
came
to the
open-
there were
no
at
home,
"Allie
labbit,"
The
little
for
clall
bodies
down
his
Labbit please,
if
"Mr. Labbit," he
called.
"Any
answer.
down
mouth, he yelled
for
Cupping his
voice. "Mr.
Faint sounds
mumbling
voice
"Who
calls,
Who calls,
I'll
have no weasel in
40
my
den,
"
Teenie Weenies
little folks
unless
to carry
rhyme
they rhymed too.
in
Chinaman
was not a good rhymer, and that often caused great confusion.
"Allie
"We
all
The
called to the
and
after a
to talk to
him
in
rhyme
or he
won't answer."
The Chinaman
he coughed and
said, in a rabbit
rhyme,
we are fliends
We bring to you we bring to you
The Chinaman bit his Teenie Weenie thumb nail and
think of something that rhymed with friends.
"But, Mr. Labbit,
"We
hard to
"O.K."
said the
We
Shuffling sounds
and nodded
to the
came out
He
Teenie Weenies
who were
The
No
visit
is
matter be
bless
day
41
my
soul
rabbit's hole
welcome
it
light,
rabbit glanced
Your
again.
at the
tried
sight,
or night."
The General
told the
Chinaman
Teenie Weenies had found the banana and that they thought he
would enjoy a
say to him," the General told the Chinaman, "for this rabbit
terribly
is
his feelings."
thoughts into rhyme. After some help from the General, he turned
to the rabbit
and
said,
"We
found
this fluit
blehind a
store,
it
wouldn't go to waste,
And
The
that
is
muchie
is
why we
bling
sin
in."
it
"My
Is
friends, the
more than
remind the rabbit that he was a good neighbor and that Teenie
Weenies enjoyed doing things
for
him without
rabbit
likie
pay.
do
for you.
neighbor
Is
likie
42
The
moved by
and he suddenly
fell
tear ran
who had
tremendously
down
tears,
to
his furry
dodge
to
cheek and
keep from
big.
The
rabbit sat
weeping and he
"My
I
The
tried
rhyming again
friends,
my
friends,
in a shaking voice.
my
heart
to
is
touched.
to
rabbit covered his eyes with his front feet and burst into
tears again.
away. As they passed out of sight behind a snowdrift they heard the
rabbit call after them,
"Don't go,
To
say
my
my
time
me
quite
enough
Weenie Town.
43
of thanks, tears,
CHAPTER
A
1 HE snow melted
drifts lay
their
Bad Neighbor
under the bright sunshine. Only small
fast
way up through
the
damp
examined suitable
munks were
trees
and dry
on a
and bushes
homes.
for future
The
among
chip-
the leaves
Spring was on the way, and the woods folks were awake and busy
Some
men
of the
little
men
cut off the white shoots that had sprouted on their last two
potatoes,
which the
little
had
to
Firewood had to be
nearly
empty
after the
long winter.
is
The
as
Weenies
44
for spring
as
it
is
to
and sunned.
One
of the
little
people.
He
told
all
chipmunk stopped
to chat
last
during
with the
little
was blooming
trailing arbutus
in
'
flowers,
trip to the
woods had
to
be
given up.
It
first
They heard
the
whole country-
was alarmed.
'"E did away with eight chickens the other night," Tilly
'ad
it
straight
from a woodpecker
who
Nick the
'alf
apple tree
isn't
squirrel reported
that
all left
the neighborhood.
45
jail.
Ginky
Chinaman. "N-n-no
fruit jar."
The Teenie Weenies felt sorry for the frightened mouse and
they gave him permission to sleep in the jail. The little people kept
close to the shoe house, only going out to bring in firewood
to carry
One
and
creek.
little
chap ran
to the
quickly locked
came
all
long neck.
his
He
raised
evil eyes.
When
of
for
people
little
sharp teeth
his
animals do not
ammonia.
The
sniffing
weasel
moved
off
workshop.
The
no one was
people
little
in the can.
He
jail,
him
for
that
no doubt
"No
weasel
jail
stopped.
From an
upstairs
46
had
his
full
of
at
set off
He had
of
The
little
chap
sick.
ammonia
for protection.
Cowboy
quickly
and
Jack
felt better,
soon
before.
of the
far
little
from the
folks
trail
were
and
the neighborhood of
of
the town.
"We had
it's
better try
is
men
to
any perfume
my
life
Town seemed
less
nervous.
Even the
rabbits
came out
to nibble
on
the few green things bursting from the ground. Tilly Titter reported
that nothing
of the weasel,
and
it
was generally
left
the neighborhood.
47
the lane
and
A moment
later the
to see the
grass near
tall
by and
"Get
empty
Dunce, pointing
move with
great speed
by the
when
it is
Now
stone.
necessary.
an
to
first
through the narrow bottle neck. Gogo followed the Dunce, and
the
Cowboy,
from the
the Sailor,
plunged in just
bottle,
farther
away
the rock.
The
through the
glass.
He
sniffed at the
opening of the
bottle,
but the
and
snarling. Finally
"Looks
"Yes,
as
though we
will
be heah
fo'
"The General
in the
is
too wise to
morning, but
he'll
do
that. He'll
be out looking
for us
For over two hours the Teenie Weenies saw no signs of the
weasel.
Then
they saw his head appear around the side of the stone.
little
men went
to
terribly worried
48
when
didn't
early in the
knew
the missing
they
all
By
morning he sent
for
there. Finally
which grew
Jack.
The
woods,
for
Jack picked up
fainter
and
fainter,
now
so the
for
that the
Lady
dog was on
his trail.
Jack chased the weasel nearly all day. All the birds and animals
miles around Teenie Weenie Town report that the dangerous
50
CHAPTER
A
OPRING
time
is
Lost Chicken
in order to break
up
little folks
to pull the
to
be made.
Teenie Weenie
The
to
be cut into pieces with Teenie Weenie axes. Each piece must contain
it
one of the eyes that show on the surface of the potato, so that
will sprout
holes the
and grow
little
men
dig.
into a vine
Then
when
it is
up
glass fruit
jar
out
in
garden.
dry,
order
Teenie
When
many
must be
in
the
Weenie
the weather
is
thimblefuls of water
make
the plants
grow.
51
was good.
seems to
me we
raise in the
fish,"
to
your
work
in the garden."
is
much
them."
to
have
we
own
food
if
"You go on
fishing,
but you'll
in the garden.
The Dunce brought out his hook and line, and in a short time
he found a worm for bait. He went off down toward the creek, and
the General warned the Cook not to give the foolish Teenie Weenie
anything to
eat.
"If he catches a
told the
be taught a
It
fish,
lesson, for
for
but he must
his share of
work."
down
to their
sat
evening meal, and they had nearly finished and were eating their
dessert
when
the
Dunce came
He
looked
"Catch any
bites,
though."
"I shouldn't think that would be a very hearty supper," smiled
the General.
"No,
it
"Well,
isn't,"
prefer
52
"Yes,
believe
"Well,
sit
Weenies had
In fact
it
it
Just before luncheon the rain stopped and the weather cleared
up
so the Teenie
repairs.
The Old
Soldier
needed
entire covering
to
be replaced.
little
damage
had been stained by the water, but that could be overcome with
and
started to work.
over a
had
Soldier
to
number
fit
made
careful
The Old
While the men were busy with the work the Old
roof,
happened
Soldier,
who
towards the
to glance
path that leads from the town hall to the shoe house. "Well, look
who's here!" he exclaimed.
Down
the walk
came
a young chicken.
his
baby
He was
face.
tears at
In
fact,
the Teenie
any moment.
a blond and
"What can we do
you?"
The
little
"He
53
3#
*%g
is
trying to say."
his
and the
sage,
washing.
to the teapot
He
laundryman agreed
little
to
birds
come
at once.
and animals
better than
single
same chicken
"Allie
talk
baby
Chinaman.
"Me
"Maybe
He
Cook.
climbed
down
the
ladder on which he had been standing, went into the kitchen, and
down
dish
full
of
creamed hominy.
who gobbled
up
set
it
the
it
faster
He
than
acts
as
of leftover
The
When
the chicken
ham
fat
had eaten
and a portion
had given him almost everything he had on hand and he would have
to
cook a
wiped
his
The
chicken
all
some place
is
for
Several of the
make
itself at
began
to
him
we had
better
to stay tonight."
men dragged an
it
for
55
and, settling
down on
made
Cook put on
the rag,
which was
bottle,
him
appeared.
little folks
He
waited
the eight grains of boiled corn, and the Teenie Weenies under-
still
hungry.
"Maybe
for
have to feed
this
else."
fish,"
starve to death
if
he had to depend on
The chicken picked a few bugs and ants around Teenie Weenie
Town, but he continually hung around the kitchen door looking
for
something more.
she knows everything that goes on for miles about. Tilly promised
to try
and
find out
Town and
told
them what
"I 'ad
it
'ouse quite a
this
chicken
is
told the
probably from a
Teenie Weenies.
The
lost
sisters.
many
little
chicken
is
little
56
a hungry
CHAPTER
O,^
Une
Jack
of the
mean
to
be troublesome, but he
is
people's
little
dog
also
is
friend, doesn't
are some-
for
them,
for
one
they
can't be
know he
doesn't
for the
brush,
done
dog
and those
visits
almost always
mean
that
some damage
is
was much
liked
by the
little folks
friend too.
and a very
to
for
they
57
One morning
he brought
work
Two
little
at a
of the
new
roof
on the shoe
were
man had an
of Fashion
had
in
the
Teenie
extra
Teenie Weenie
busy
women
were
just finished
still
The Lady
the brush.
He had
a hard time
mouth. By the time he had reached the shoe house, most of the
little
people had heard him and they came running to the spot.
on the ground,
sat
down and
grinned
Teenie Weenies.
said the
General glancing at the big bone, which was partly covered with
rather smelly meat.
to the house."
"Hush!" whispered the Cook who had stepped from the porch
onto the toe of the shoe house. "He means well."
"So do I mean well, too," answered the Doctor. "That bone
is
likely
it
here."
to
cause
an epidemic
in
the
town.
We
can't
have
Jack barked a few times and the General made a deep bow
although he did not understand a thing the dog barked. The China-
58
ground
man came
running up at that
moment and he
The General
that the only
turned to the
meat we
much
to
him
better for
eat
frog
is
bone
"He
to eat
Tell
it.
"We
said.
"He
tell
will
him we
to
it
that
it
would be
He say
him we
bury
it
Weenie
if
he kept
bone
gets
Chinaman
fliends to
He
he no hungry now.
told
have
this
can no eat."
for
him
muchie ashamed
Tell
fish.
"Tell Jack
for himself."
velly
the General.
ham and
said.
Chinaman and
it
it
up."
"I
know we
are
we'd
still
the
Chinaman
General's message to the dog. Jack seemed satisfied and he went off
"Now,
the
this
bone
when
off
the
and bury
little
men
it
pulled
dog had
left,
"get
it."
to a big pile of
of the
men
brought
along Teenie Weenie picks and shovels and they began digging a
hole in which the bone could be buried.
"Why
can't
Dunce. "That
we
will
be
easier
it
"We
it
must
air
won't reach
it,
or
it
It
will spoil."
finally the
three-eighths of
an inch
in big people's
measurements.
is
to
it."
Dunce wrinkling up
his nose,
"I
it
might be well
it
to
bone
to
up out
will rise
of the hole?"
Old
ought
past keeping."
it
it
Soldier.
though
to
it
is
CHAPTER
A New
A NEW neighbor
10
Neighbor
settled near
chestnut-sided warbler. She was polite but shy, and she had very
little
to
little folks
for that.
little
many
insects
short order.
near the
the toads
little
the insects.
Cowboy reported
that she
Then
in a tree
When
little
the nest
had been
later
and
out.
sometime
built, the
knew
62
the bird
as the
in their
T eenie Weenie
garden,
One
day the Policeman reported that something was wrong in the nest.
"I don't believe the mother is in the nest," the Policeman said.
"I can't see her, and you can usually see a warbler's
over the side of the nest.
tail sticking
believe
"Oh,
birds,"
the mother
is
for her
young
put in the Old Soldier, "and young birds are always crying
for food."
The
were
still
who had
sounded
as
if
just
one bird
crying,
Weenies decided
oriole,
it
to investigate,
later the
Not long
Baltimore
Chinaman
that
was a great
and
so
flicker
I
is
flew
up
right.
the
from a flicker
to
just van-
"Maybe
it
to
'ad
"What's happened
that flicker
is
for
much."
Cowboy.
"Might be,"
"The young
if it
if I
64
young 'uns
to feed
all I
can do
to
keep 'em
full."
"The
warbler's nest
is
up
to the
in a tree that's
we could fix a
down easily."
line in
I'll
get
you up there
in a jiffy."
"Let
me
at tying ropes."
Tilly's back,
coil of twine.
built.
on the ground,
Weenie Town.
When
Cowboy had
Presently he slid down
tree,
the
"The
until
is
to
it
be best
strong
if
it
little soft
to
in
at
little,
it
first,
once."
men
Weenie
brought
tool house.
out
picks
They
&'&X^jyj
<M
and
65
told
need of food."
be fed at
Several of the
Cowboy
would
you gave
ought
worm
is
enough
It
chopped worm
but
it
more.
eat
climbed onto
He
bird flew
had been
warbler's nest
out a long
shovels
and
work digging
set to
a worm.
for
dry since the night the roof had sprung a leak, and the worms had
little
men had
who minced
one.
They
shell
carried
it
to the
Cook,
it
do a
to
lot of
was a large
fat
in a hickory-nut
it
knife.
He
put some
The Cook
nest.
Turk pulled
When
the basket
up
to the nest
it
to the Doctor.
bird
and handed
basket, the
its
wide enough
to
on which he
stood.
fell
off
nearly
instantly
for
for
He moved
out on a limb away from the nest in order to keep out of reach of the
The young
bird.
fallen to the
some
ground
of the Teenie
far
underneath,
for
it
it
to fly,
but
nest.
if
Turk.
is
in his life."
to the Turk.
slid
me
"Let
it
more
down
fifteen
Dunce when
it
was time
to give
food.
to lose
the Cowboy.
losing
my
"All right," answered the Turk. "Try your luck, but don't
blame me
bird as a
if
you
are swallowed.
as tasty to a
grubworm."
The Dunce
When
said,
the
to the
its
mouth and
mouth with
fright.
it."
you'll
get
swallowed?"
"N-n-no," answered the Dunce. "You feed
it."
All
turn feeding
it,
little
men
took his
his, too.
In
a short time the Doctor told the Teenie Weenies that they could
begin feeding the bird a whole
that great fun, but
it
live
fishworm.
The
for
it
little folks
thought
was quite a
task to
worms out of the ground. The bird ate more and more as it
grew, and several Teenie Weenies were kept busy most of the day
digging worms and pulling them up by a line to the nest.
"Jinks!" exclaimed the Dunce one day, when the General told
him it was his turn to dig worms. "I have blisters on my hands from
dig the
digging
of
its
for
to
have
life?"
"We
won't have
to feed
it
much
67
it
can look
after itself."
"That's right, General," said the Cowboy. "I noticed the bird
was flapping
ready to
its
it's
getting
fly."
The
It
so
next morning,
Town
for a
bird's
life,
for if
"It's a
were
sitting
Old
it
it
ate
the insects.
to save the
for us that
we had
on the shoe-house
Cowboy.
"Yes, and
kitchen to the birds' nest to keep them fed," put in the Sailor.
"And
Dunce.
a Teenie
Weenie bulldozer
to dig for