The Burgess Animal Book For Children in "Two Unlike Little Cousins"

Whitefoot the Wood Mouse is one of the smallest of the little people who live in the Green Forest. Being so small he is one of the most timid. You see, by day and by night sharp eyes are watching for Whitefoot and he knows it. Never one single instant, while he is outside where sharp eyes of hungry enemies may see him, does he forget that they are watching for him. To forget even for one little minute might mean well, it might mean the end of little Whitefoot, but a dinner for some one with a liking for tender Mouse.