Freddie Weasel caught several sleeping birds. And Frisky could not
help being sorry for them. He began to feel very guilty for having
teased them, and for having eaten their eggs.

Finally it grew so dark that Frisky had just about decided that he
would have to give up spying on Freddie and hurry home, when he saw
Freddie slip into a hole in a bank and vanish.

Was Freddie Weasel at last going to bed and to sleep?




XXII

Catching Freddie Weasel Asleep


When Frisky Squirrel saw Freddie Weasel disappear in the hole in the
bank he became greatly excited. He forgot all about going home. And
though he had begun to feel somewhat sleepy, he was wide awake again
in no time. He sat right down, a little way from the hole, and he
never once took his eyes off it.

Frisky hoped that perhaps he would hear Freddie snoring in there, if
he waited long enough. But no such thing happened. There seemed to be
but one way to discover whether Freddie was asleep, and _that_ was to
creep into the hole himself and find out.

Now, Frisky Squirrel was no coward, as you know. But he did not like