The Squirrel Inn

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The Squirrel Inn is a book by Frank R. Stockton. The contents list chapters called The Steamboat Pier, The Landlord and his Inn and The Greek Scholar, among others. A character named Lodloe says aloud that he owns a baby and intends to keep it.

Walter Lodloe is described as a young man who had adopted literature as a profession and was on his way to spend some months at a quiet country place. Ida Mayberry returns to the spot where the baby had been left and finds no baby there, and she exclaims that Mr. Lodloe has taken the child away. A character named Mrs. Petter says to Mr. Tippengray that there must be no more laddering.

About the author

Frank R. Stockton

Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) was an American writer and humorist who worked as a wood engraver in Philadelphia before turning to fiction and children's writing in his thirties. He is best remembered for "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (1882), a story whose withheld ending became a national parlor argument, and for the Rudder Grange books that began in 1879.