A secret
Squirrel was preparing for bed when she heard her neighbour, the rat climbing into his nest. She was wondering why he was missing for the whole day thus she peeked her head out of her head and asked ‘I haven’t seen you for the whole day dear rat, where have you been?’The rat looked flustered and leaned over to the Squirrel’s ear,’ I have spent the whole day collecting nuts to last me all winter! They are stored right at the bottom of this tree, so, when I get hungry, I can just pop in downstairs and get some nuts! But do keep this a secret or everyone would know’ said the Rat.
Hearing this, Squirrel scrambled back into her nest, feeling ashamed. She had not started her winter foraging yet. She then hurried over to her sleeping children and woke them up.’ you are to help me forage for winter food before you can go to play tomorrow. Our dear neighbour has already stored his nuts under the tree and we haven’t even started! Surely you don’t expect him to share his nuts!’The baby Squirrels listened blurrily and nodded off.
The next morning, as strictly the baby squirrels went foraging with their mother. After a day of hard work, Squirrel finally let them off to meet their friends at the big field. The Squirrels met their friends, the Birds, the Badgers, the moles and many more other small animals. When they reached there, they found them playing a game of catch. Immediately when they appeared, they were asked by fellow Badgers ‘we were worried for you all morning, where have you been?’The squirrels answered ‘Mum asked us to help her and Rat to store nuts under the hollow tree so that we could share them for winter! ‘This reason for the Squirrels being late was spreaded around in the mess in the game of catch.
At the end of the day, the baby animals all went home. There was an especially talkative baby parakeet who loves to talk about the day. This was a phrase of what he said to his parents when he talked about his day’…..oh! Yes, the squirrels came late today. They went foraging with their mother and found a large hollow tree abandoned that is full of nuts…’The parakeets were extremely chattery and thus, this myth of a great hollow tree stored with nuts quickly spreaded around like wildfire around the forest.
In the morning, Rat was waked up peacefully in the late morning. He had slept well for the night as he is relieved by the many nuts he had collected the previous day. He decided to pop in at his great hallow tree to make sure they were safe. But when he got down, he saw a great hallowed and emptied tree.







This was written by Jane aka Dracofalco for mrs missels eng composition.Not sure if she will accept this tale of a Rat and baby squirrels

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