The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is 1,229 words — about 5 min at 250 words per minute, across 2 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it here.
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One autumn when the nuts were ripe, and the leaves on the hazel bushes were golden and green--Nutkin and Twinkleberry and all the other little squirrels came out of the wood, and down to the edge of the lake.…
Details
- AuthorBeatrix Potter
- SourceProject Gutenberg #14872
- Length1,229 words · 5 min of reading
- Chapters2
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-09-06
Contents
2 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01A STORY FOR NORAH
- 02THE END
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