Elizabeth Taylor's Nibbles and Me by Elizabeth Taylor
Author:Elizabeth Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-11T16:00:00+00:00
N IBBLES WAS so surprised at Christmastime when we brought in a large Christmas tree. He chirped and had a lot of fun running up and down and jumping from branch to branch. But he seemed to be a little disgusted with us when we started trimming the tree with ornaments and hanging tinsel on it. One very ancient Father Christmas that we’ve had on the tree ever since I was a little girl, he fairly tore to bits and made off with his beard. He liked the gingerbread men and candy sticks. But the minute he eats anything he has to sit up and wash and the peppermint sticks got on his whiskers and stuck to his teeth and made him furious.
I think he thought we were crazy on Christmas morning when we started unwrapping presents with all the accompanying squeals of delight. We have a lot of fun. You see we have the animals all in, except the horses, and have a stocking stuffed full for each one of them … catnip and rubber balls and mice for the cats … rubber bones, a few sweets, dog biscuits, and new collars for the dogs … and they get just as excited as we do.
Nibbles didn’t know what to think. Then I started unwrapping his presents and I never realized until then how choosy a chipmunk could be. He had a beautiful green and gold cage given to him with a wonderful wheel in it to exercise on. It was such a gorgeous affair—and I thought he’d be delighted because he is so curious and in this cage he could see on all sides at once. But not a bit of it. He hated it and made no pretense of liking it. He jumped at it with all four feet and spat at it. He even scolded me for thinking he would like it… and bless his heart how right he was, because it was silly to give it to him in the wintertime when he should have been hibernating. (He loves it now for a nice airy cool summer house.) Fortunately Daddy and Howard had made a wonderful winter home for him out of a mahogany night table. It pleased him just as much as the gold cage annoyed him. It is painted to match my room, and just has wire across one side. Inside it has a wonderful log that Daddy hollowed out partway—where he can store nuts and seeds—which is instinct for them to do whether they have to or not. Then there is a place for water, and for his daily half orange.
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