""Take to the water, quick!" shouted Doctor Muskrat. "Climb a tree!" advised Chatter Squirrel, balancing on the tip end of a limb. And they had the Woodsfolk so excited they didn't know what to do. Most of them couldn't climb if they wanted to, and mighty few of them like to swim. So those who were there tried to run away, and those who weren't came to see what was going on. Tommy Peele's woods were just alive with scuttling and fluttering. All because Louie Thomson had brought a lantern to light his party with. He had brought all sorts of things to eat, too, and he planned to sleep all night in the Woods and Fields, in a tent made of one of his mother's blankets."