Vintage - 1940 The Tale Of The Whitefoot Mouse By Henry B. Kane / Hardcover
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Vintage - 1940The Tale of the Whitefoot Mouse by Henry B. KaneThis special edition was published by arrangement with the publishers of the regular edition Alfred A. Knoff by E. M. Hale and Company
If you like stories of the fields and woods you will love this story of the little whitefoot mouse, how he lived and grew; who his enemies were, the snakes and crows and weasels; what he ate. You will also love the beautiful photographs made by the author.A... boy is sure he has the world's best father, an outdoorsman who shows him the hiding places of ground-nesting birds and teaches him to paddle a canoe and handle a rifle safely. Never point your gun at anything you don't intend to shoot, his father tells him, and don't kill anything you don't intend to eat. When he's eight years old, he is finally allowed to go to hunting camp with his father. They climb through dark woods to the icy-cold camp, where Dad starts a fire in the stove. A few minutes later, a tiny, shivering white-footed mouse emerges from his nest to share the warmth of the stovepipe. The boy feeds him a bit of cheese and sees that the mouse trusts him. Later, when his father begins to bait a mouse trap, the boy wittily reminds his Dad of the lesson he had taught him.
Hardcover - 43 pages Binding in excellent conditionNo rips, tears or writing on pages(except in pencil DeVille #5 1949 - School District I believe)
If you like stories of the fields and woods you will love this story of the little whitefoot mouse, how he lived and grew; who his enemies were, the snakes and crows and weasels; what he ate. You will also love the beautiful photographs made by the author.A... boy is sure he has the world's best father, an outdoorsman who shows him the hiding places of ground-nesting birds and teaches him to paddle a canoe and handle a rifle safely. Never point your gun at anything you don't intend to shoot, his father tells him, and don't kill anything you don't intend to eat. When he's eight years old, he is finally allowed to go to hunting camp with his father. They climb through dark woods to the icy-cold camp, where Dad starts a fire in the stove. A few minutes later, a tiny, shivering white-footed mouse emerges from his nest to share the warmth of the stovepipe. The boy feeds him a bit of cheese and sees that the mouse trusts him. Later, when his father begins to bait a mouse trap, the boy wittily reminds his Dad of the lesson he had taught him.
Hardcover - 43 pages Binding in excellent conditionNo rips, tears or writing on pages(except in pencil DeVille #5 1949 - School District I believe)
