Mee-ko

Mee-ko was so scared that he dropped the egg back into the nest and ran along the branch and across to another.

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So meeting Mee-ko one day in the woods, he said, 'Tell me, what would you do if you should see a man?'

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Even Mee-ko the Squirrel and others of your enemies will be afraid of the snake-skin and let your nests alone. '

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A-bal-ka never harmed any one, nor did he scold and steal like Mee-ko the Red Squirrel.

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To the little boy it seemed as if Mee-ko was saying, "Come here, come away, follow me, follow me!"

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But A-bal-ka's door was too small, and his hallways too narrow for Mee-ko.

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One day as little Luke was sitting on a fallen log in the woods, Mee-ko the Red Squirrel ran out on a branch over his head.

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You drove off Mee-ko the thieving Red Squirrel when he was trying to steal the eggs from the nest of O-pee-chee.

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As soon as he reached out his hand for it again, Mee-ko began to scold more angrily than before.

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Mee-ko started to talk back at Ko-ko-ka, but the big owl snapped his beak angrily and rustled his wings.

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