Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo-and Still-Mo / Campbell, Sam A / (PB/1945-1945/B/USED)

Condition note: Book is well used with moderate cover wear and is clean. Has an owner mark.

The North Woods had been staging a vaudeville show for Captain Duke that May morning. It was wet and windy outside, but Duke, who was spending his furlough with Sam and Giny Campbell at the Sanctuary of Wegimind, had a front-row seat by the cabin window. The fall curly-haired soldier was a wonderful laughter. The forest seemed to realize this; it was behaving like a convention of comedians! Time and again Sam was called away from his typewriter and Giny from her pie-making to watch the antics of another visitor at the animal feeding station, while Duke went into cackle spasms.

The climax that took all three out of doors into the gale was the arrival of a neighbor with four baby red squirrels. Sam was about to christen the babies (with a painting brush and daub of bright color) when the neighbor came again with a fifth squirrel. Now there were "squints"--Eeny, Meeny, Miney, and Mo--and Still-Mo.

For the next few days Sam always knew where to find Duke. The big fellow lost his heart completely to the tiny creatures. They "adopted" him just as wholeheartedly. By the time his furlough ended, Duke claimed he could identify them in the dark. Eeny was his favorite. The only female of the group, Eeny was the gentle one who would lie contentedly in his hand or nestle against his neck. Meeny should have been spelled "meanie"; he was full of devilment, willing to come around only when there was a handout. Miney primped and posed and fussed at his appearance constantly. Mo was his exact opposite, a lazy, lovable tramp. There was always a dirty spot over one eye, a streak across his mouth, a coat of dust on his tail. And Still-Mo was the carefree adventurous type who owned the world and felt he must see it all.

"There's a lieutenant in my outfit I am going to call Still-Mo," said Duke. "You never know where he will be or what he will do next, except that it will be OK. He's an embodied spirit of liberty."

All too soon came the day when Duke had to don on his uniform again. Even his address became c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, he begged Sam for news of his little friends. "Tell me everything that happens up there," he wrote. "Give me a complete report on the wild menagerie. There are a lot of fellows here who want to feed their hopes on it."

Not content with recording merely everyday events, Sam Campbell and Giny thought up tricks to play on the squirrels so that they could have more to tell Duke. They tested the squints I.Q. by suspending a peanut on a string from a rope stretched between two trees. They teased Begged Boy, their pet chipmunk, by placing peanuts in a milk bottle. The greedy little animal was temporarily baffled by the glass barrier, then, when he discovered the opening and could crawl inside, he stuffed his cheeks so full he couldn't get out!

Captain Duke came again to the Sanctuary many months later. He had been wounded in action. He was fully recovered--but Sam and Giny knew there was a difference. He grieved for Lieutenant Still-Mo, who had been captured. He doubted God. He had lost his bubbling laughter.

Reading Sam Campbell's account of how the creatures of the forest helped Duke regain it is a heartwarming experience. It contains a lesson for all of us. The everlasting goodness of Nature and of Nature's God is waiting to restore and renew our faith in the midst of the man-made nightmare of war!

Table of Contents

I--Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo--
II----And Still-Mo!
III--Bad Dream Ahead
IV--To Make a Long Tail Short
V--God Be with You, Duke!
VI--When the Dumb Speak
VII--Just Make Yourselves at Home
VIII--C/O Postmaster, San Francisco
IX--Not-So-Good Neighbor Policy
X--A Letter from Duke
XI--Peanut Problem
XII--A Hole in Nothing
XIII--One False Step
XIV--"Missing in Action"
XV--Winter Ways and Wounds
XVI--No News Is Awful
XVII--Spring Cleaning
XVIII--A String that Stretches
XIX--Trails and Tails
XX--More About Mo
XXI--Which Way is North?
XXII--Lesson from a Dragonfly
XXIII--A Believe-It-or-Not Day
XXIV--Whatzit?
XXV--"Urch"
XXVI--Lieutenant in a Kimono
XXVII--A Super-Nut with Whiskers
XXVIII--Carry On!

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