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This is Ria. Welcome to Little Stories for Tiny People. I'm a fairly organized person. I plan ahead. I have binders. Two binders to be exact. I have a documents binder where I keep all sorts of important papers, and I have a recipe binder where I keep all sorts of recipes for things like cricket stew and snail pasta.

Our story today is about a squirrel who is much more organized than I am and who has many more binders. Let's hear it.

It's called Anderson Weathertail Plans Ahead. Take it away, Autumn. Remember, there are no pictures.

You have to imagine the pictures in your mind. You can imagine them however you

want. Okay, here we go.

Anderson P. Weathertail was an organized squirrel. The tree house he'd built himself two years ago on the branch of a large

maple tree held ample evidence of this. His tiny kitchen nook had a single cabinet that held precisely

one mug, one plate, and one bowl.

As soon as he finished his acorn stew, or took the last sip of chicory tea,

he'd wash the vessel and return it to its proper place.

These tendencies extended to the rest of Anderson's life. Unlike most

squirrels, Anderson had never misplaced an acorn he'd stored for winter, because, understanding

the limitations of his own nose and memory, he took a paw-drawn map

of the forest, along with his basket of nuts. Each time he'd bury a stash, he marked the exact

spot on his map with a quill pen.

There we go.

Anderson had binders on many different topics that he kept on a shelf near his fireplace.

Not too near, he didn't want them to dry out.

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