Chapter 11. Mary Anna
Caleb and Raymond reached home about the middle of the afternoon: and while Raymond went into the yard to leave the cart and turn out the cattle, Caleb pressed eagerly into the house, to shew his prize. Mary Anna, or Marianne, as they generally called her, came to meet him to see what he had got in his hand.
“Is that my birch bark?” said she.
“There! I forgot your birch bark,” said Caleb. - “But I have got something here a great deal better.” And so saying he put his handkerchief down, and began very eagerly to untie the knots.
When he had got two of the ends untied, and was at work upon the other two, out leaped the squirrel, and ran across the room. Mary Anna, startled by the sudden appearance of the animal, ran off to the door, and Caleb called out in grea
