Fiddlesticks and Freckles / Campbell, Sam A / (PB/1955-1985/B+/USED)

Condition note: Book is lightly used with minor cover wear and is clean.

Fiddlesticks and Freckles are two wobblylegged, speckled fawns, and their mother is Bobette, a beautiful queenly doe, long known at the Campbell Sanctuary. This charming family of deer makes its home in and about the Clearing, an old forest fire area on the north shore of the lake. Freckles gained her name from her unusually numerous spots, and Fiddlesticks was so called because of his amusing egotism and strutty walk.
The lives of the deer are fraught with danger. There are foxes, coyotes, wolves, wild cats in the great forest. To increase the concern, evidence is found of the presence of a panther, or cougar, long thought extinct in this area. Bobette is wise and devoted mother, and her ways of protecting her youngsters are impressive and heartwarming.
While this forest drama unfolds, Sam and Giny (his wife and constant companion) hear from a little friend in far off Hawaii. This is lovable Moke, a four-year-old boy of Okinawan and Hawaiian parents, living on the island of Maui. Moke knows the Campbells through an earlier visit they made to Hawaii, and through Sam's books which have been read to him. He is self-appointed guardian over a pair of unusual friends—a chicken named Ewa and a mongoose named Kimo. Moke's mother begs the Campbells to come and see these strange companions and she urges that it be soonl as chicken is the customary food of the mongoose and she wonders how long the animals' friendship will last.
Moke has another worry, too. Chickens are disappearing from a neighbor's yard, and his pet, Kimo, is under suspicion. Moke is so concerned he takes his chicken and his mongoose to bed with him nightly.
In the meantime, life gets more complicated for Fiddlesticks and Freckles at the Campbell Sanctuary. Bobette is cruelly killed by a hunter, and the fawns are left to meet the dangers of the forest by themselves.
How Fiddlesticks and Freckles fared in their struggle with forest dangers, and how Moke met his problem of mongoose and chickens, is a story that only Sam Campbell could tell so well. It is filled with thoughtful observations of nature that make the forest world seem intimate, real and inspiring.

Table of Contents

I--A-Hunting We Will Go
II--Anyone Seen Our Cat?
III--Hawaii Calls and Birdcalls
IV--Of Coons, Cans, Turtles and Trucks
V--Of Birds, Bees And----?
VI--Escape from a Whoopingdinger
VII--The Voice of the Wild
VIII--Adventure at Panther Palace
IX--Bing, Boom and Double Trouble
X--Seeing Is Believing
XI--Strange Bedfellows
XII--The Greatest Predator
XIII--Hugging an Octopus
XIV--Forebodings
XV--Chimp, Champ and Confusion
XVI--Harts and Flowers
XVII--Archers and Anxiety
XVIII--Trigger Happy
XIX--Hawaiian Hospitality
XX--Whacks at Waikiki
XXI--A Native Hukilau
XXII--Surprise!
XXIII--Spectre of the Brocken
XXIV--Mind Your Own Business
XXV--Comes Another Spring

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