HOW MANY CREATURES DID LINA MEET AFTER SHE WAS KIDNAPPED?

Lina had just discovered that other human children were larger than she was, even when they were first born.  Then she was kidnapped away from her home.  It was all a great shock to her system and she wondered if she would ever fit in anywhere ever again.  She didn't meet a single human all that winter but she made friends with many other creatures.  A lady bug, some fish, a mole, a spider, some earthworms, among others.  She always wondered what it would be like to live with them for the rest of her life.  Seeing herself as very different made her worry about life sometimes.  But it wasn't her nature to worry all the time and she did like the creatures she met.  She learned to read that winter because Clarissa Mouse had some small books from a doll house.  She had brought them with her when she moved to the country.  Clarissa was happy to teach Lina to read. Lina thought it very different to live underground but she was happy to be out of the snow and wind.  She told me all this soon after she came back home the following spring.  This is Delbert Bee signing off now.