Tan and Teckle by Charles Lee Bryson details from sapnaonline
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... XXII THE FATE OF COUSIN GRAY A LONG the foot of the steep bank of shelf of land that fringed the water, were many little irregular piles of clay. They stood upright on the ground, some nearly straight and some very crooked, several times as high as Tan's head. He had noticed them many times as he ran back and forth, and wondered dimly who made them and why, but as they seemed to have no bearing on his own life he never asked any questions about them. Pleasant Run creek, on the narrow He might have lived beside them all the year, passing the curious mounds every day of his life without knowing anything about them, if he had not seen another woodland tragedy enacted there. One day Tan was sitting in the mouth of the muskrat's burrow, which he had come to use a great deal as a safe passage between his nest in the root of the old stump and the waterside. He was not trying to spy on anyone, but from force of habit he was keeping out of sight of others, but with his own eyes open. As he sat there he heard the peculiar clatter and clack of Cousin Gray's wings as the big, dusty grasshopper flew, and saw him come flit, flit, flit, in irregular up-and-down flight, from across the little creek. Instead of flying far enough to land on top of the bank, some six feet above the level of the water, the grass'hopper for some reason chose to drop at the foot of the bank, quite near the water's edge. As usual, he looked for a bare spot on which to settle, so that he could see any approaching danger, and could leap into the air and fly away at a moment's warning. So it was that he picked out one of those odd little piles of clay for his resting place. Tan watched him idly as he dropped with quick, nervous jerks of his wings, until he finally plumped down on...
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