This collection of short stories is about the amusing adventures of Billy Woodchuck and the other animals he encounters around Pleasant Valley. He is often getting himself into a variety of situations and learns valuable lessons about life in the process. Arthur Scott Bailey wrote more than forty children's books and centered all of them around the world of animals, birds, and insects. The Tale of Billy Woodchuck is part of his Sleepy-Time Tales series. ( Jenn Broda)
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How delightful. May I have the first 10 sections? (Is that good or fair?) I could take every other?
EDIT: I have a woodchuck with whom I visit at least one a week. They are short visits, as he is always in a hurry and scurries away. He is very fond of the trellis work under my porch, so much so that he spends time chewing on them and creating a shape more in keeping with his rotundity.
KevinS wrote: ↑July 12th, 2019, 7:00 pm
How delightful. May I have the first 10 sections? (Is that good or fair?) I could take every other?
EDIT: I have a woodchuck with whom I visit at least one a week. They are short visits, as he is always in a hurry and scurries away. He is very fond of the trellis work under my porch, so much so that he spends time chewing on them and creating a shape more in keeping with his rotundity.
I should have mentioned that the first three chapters were already recorded by the original soloist. But, I'll give you the next ten, 4-13. That is perfectly fine.
Guess you'll have to give your woodchuck a name now, if he doesn't have one already.
KevinS wrote: ↑July 12th, 2019, 7:00 pm
How delightful. May I have the first 10 sections? (Is that good or fair?) I could take every other?
EDIT: I have a woodchuck with whom I visit at least one a week. They are short visits, as he is always in a hurry and scurries away. He is very fond of the trellis work under my porch, so much so that he spends time chewing on them and creating a shape more in keeping with his rotundity.
I should have mentioned that the first three chapters were already recorded by the original soloist. But, I'll give you the next ten, 4-13. That is perfectly fine.
Guess you'll have to give your woodchuck a name now, if he doesn't have one already.
Billy seems like a good name. I assume he is a bachelor, but Billy works for a girl woodchuck, too, I would think!
