Can you think of anything more dreadful than to be afraid to go to your own home ? Why , home is the dearest place in the world , and it should be the safest . Just think how you would feel if you should be away from home , and then you should learn that it would n't be safe for you to go back there again , and you had no other place to go . It often happens that way with the little people of the Green Meadows and the Green Forest . It was that way with Happy Jack Squirrel now . You see , Happy Jack knew that Shadow the Weasel is not one to give up easily . Shadow has one very good trait , and that is persistence . He is not easily discouraged . When he sets out to do a thing , usually he does it . If he starts to get a thing , usually he gets it . No , he is n't easily discouraged . Happy Jack knows this . No one knows it better . So Happy Jack did n't dare to go home . He knew that any minute of night or day Shadow might surprise him there , and that would be the end of him . He more than half suspected that Shadow was at that very time hiding somewhere along the way ready to spring out on him if he should try to go back home . He had stayed in the room of Farmer Brown 's boy until Mrs. Brown had come to make the bed . Then he had jumped out the window into the big maple tree . He was n't quite sure of Mrs. Brown yet . She had kindly eyes .
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