Woodsy neighbours of Tan and Teckle . rou have seen some of theirother enemies. But Mother Nature makesthem multiply so rapidly that there is nodanger that they will all be eaten, and shegives them short memories so that they donot worry long about anything that troublesthem. After that Tan was always ready to believethat his own lot was by no means the worstin life, and that even the little wild peoplewho seem happiest have quite as many wor-ries as he. ?>?>. AN UNPLEASANT NEIGH-BOUR HE day had been beautifullysunny and mild, a perfect au-tumn day. There had beenno strong wind to bring
Woodsy neighbours of Tan and Teckle . rou have seen some of theirother enemies. But Mother Nature makesthem multiply so rapidly that there is nodanger that they will all be eaten, and shegives them short memories so that they donot worry long about anything that troublesthem. After that Tan was always ready to believethat his own lot was by no means the worstin life, and that even the little wild peoplewho seem happiest have quite as many wor-ries as he. ?>?>. AN UNPLEASANT NEIGH-BOUR HE day had been beautifullysunny and mild, a perfect au-tumn day. There had beenno strong wind to bring an odour from afar,yet as Tan and Teckle, the little field-mice,sat in the doorway of their old hollow oakstump and sniffed the evening breeze it wasnot pleasant. They could not understand thetaint in it. It is as offensive as the odour of somethinglong dead, said Tan, but it is different. It is like the odour of a meat eater, onlymany times stronger, replied Teckle. Ifeel sure it is some strange animal. Just then their cousin the bat, who had fin-ished his days sleep in the hollow of their 106 AN UNPLEASANT NEIGHBOUR 107 6tump, scrambled to the top ready for hisevening flight. That is a skunk, he declared, after onesniff at the tainted air. An arrant thief,and quarrelsome, too. He has been havingtrouble ; that is why he smells so badly justnow. I am sorry one has come into ourwoodland, for his presence always meanstrouble. It would be just like him to get t
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