The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse

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A LITTLE GENTLEMAN


All the four-footed folk in the neighborhood agreed that Dickie Deer
Mouse was well worth knowing. Throughout Pleasant Valley there was no
one else so gentle as he.

To be sure, Jasper Jay wore beautiful--perhaps even gaudy--clothes; but
his manners were so shocking that nobody would ever call him a
gentleman.

As for Dickie Deer Mouse, he was always tastefully dressed in fawn color
and white. And except sometimes in the spring, when he needed a new
coat, he was a real joy to see. For he both looked and acted like a
well-bred little person.

It is too bad that there were certain reasons--which will appear
later--why some of his feathered neighbors did not like him. But even
they had to admit that Dickie was a spick-and-span young chap.

Wherever he was white he was white as snow. And many of the wild people
wondered how he could scamper so fast through the woods and always keep
his white feet spotless.

Possibly it was because his mother had taught him the way when he was
young; for his feet--and the under side of him--were white even when he
was just a tiny fellow, so young that the top side of him was gray
instead of fawn colored.