2, which then darted off for more.
"Ho! ho!" said Tom to himself, "they seem to be storing up food for winter.

Heigho! I thought it would always be summer in this fairyland.
But thank you, Master Squirrel, I shall go and do the same." So off went Tom to tell Frank and the girls what he had seen the squirrels doing.
"As there is no sign of the ship coming back for us, children," he said somewhat seriously, "and we may have to spend the winter here, I think, you know, we ought to be making ready for it." "So do I," said Pansy, looking very wise.

"We want food, and we want wood and all, doesn't we, Tom ?" "It won't be very, very cold in this island," said her brother, "because we have the warm-water lake all round us.

But perhaps the squirrels know best." So now began a very busy season indeed, for everybody went nut-gathering.
Tom opened up a squirrel's store, and a pretty noise the little creature made about it.

But he did not rob it; he only wanted to learn a lesson.
He noticed that the nuts it had collected were a little green on one side, so these must be the best.