1 A squirrel was perched on Dickon's bent back attentively nibbling a nut.
2 He can charm foxes and squirrels and birds just as the natives in India charm snakes.
3 The fox and the crow were with him again and this time he had brought two tame squirrels.
4 A boy, and a fox, and a crow, and two squirrels, and a new-born lamb, are coming to see me this morning.
5 Soot had pushed away a squirrel and huddled close to him on his shoulder, the gray film dropped over his eyes.
6 Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people.
7 When he said "Nut" one squirrel leaped on to his right shoulder and when he said "Shell" the other one leaped on to his left shoulder.
8 When Mary wanted to rest a little Dickon sat down with her under a tree and once he took his pipe out of his pocket and played the soft strange little notes and two squirrels appeared on the wall and looked and listened.
9 Dickon had carried it over the moor in his arms and its feeding bottle was in his pocket with a squirrel, and when Mary had sat under a tree with its limp warmness huddled on her lap she had felt as if she were too full of strange joy to speak.
10 The truth was that in spite of all he had heard he had not in the least understood what this boy would be like and that his fox and his crow and his squirrels and his lamb were so near to him and his friendliness that they seemed almost to be part of himself.
11 Dickon held his rabbit in his arm, and perhaps he made some charmer's signal no one heard, for when he sat down, cross-legged like the rest, the crow, the fox, the squirrels and the lamb slowly drew near and made part of the circle, settling each into a place of rest as if of their own desire.
12 He moved so slowly that it scarcely seemed as though he were moving at all, but at last he stood on his feet and then the squirrel scampered back up into the branches of his tree, the pheasant withdrew his head and the rabbits dropped on all fours and began to hop away, though not at all as if they were frightened.
13 Ants' ways, beetles' ways, bees' ways, frogs' ways, birds' ways, plants' ways, gave him a new world to explore and when Dickon revealed them all and added foxes' ways, otters' ways, ferrets' ways, squirrels' ways, and trout and water-rats' and badgers' ways, there was no end to the things to talk about and think over.