"The Man Who Loved Squirrels."

A tale of a woodsman who works alone and lives with his mother, finding other company only in the forest's squirrels.

A chance meeting with a traveling London woman disrupts his and his mother's lives and ends in tragedy. The tale bears comparison to another novella, Dulcima, in its themes.

In Argosy (May 1971), The Song of the Wren (1972). Reprinted in Cosmopolitan UK (July 1974).