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The Nut Committee

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 5
Categories: Animal Stories

Author

W. J.
Corbett

Appeared in

The End of the Tale

Story Summary

The Nut Committee, hoarded nuts and during bad winters loaned out one nut for three returned. All the woodland squirrels were at their mercy, that is until Redd Squirrel borrowed every single nut. The Nut Committee greedily agreed to the deal but realized they had been served their comeuppance when they had nothing to eat themselves.