They could see the main shore where the big woods come down t' the water 'n' all the while it kep' a comin' nearer 'n' nearer.

But they was so hungry didn't seem possible they could live to git there.
'Ye know squirrels are a savin' people.

In the day o' plenty they think o' the day o' poverty an' lay by fer it.

All at once one uv 'em thought uv a few kernels o' corn, he hed pushed through a little crack in the tin floor one day a long time ago.

It happened there was quite a hole under the crack an' each uv 'em bad stored some kernels unbeknown t' the other.