Once upon a time in Nutty Oak Forest, a little squirrel named Sammy had a very big problem. Sammy loved to scamper about, playing with his friends and chasing butterflies, but when autumn came and all his friends began to gather nuts for winter, Sammy forgot about what he should do. Day after day, he would remember to eat his breakfast but forget to gather any nuts. Then one day, a terrible thought came to him.
As it was now winter, he had to wiggle and scratch to find a few nuts here and there, and it was so much trouble digging in the snow. Enormously, this nut would run short.
“How could I have been so forgetful?” Sammy said to himself. “Now I have no one to blame but myself.”
“There’s no use in crying over spilt milk,” said his mother, thus teaching him the first and greatest lesson of the old and the young, “Do not put off till tomorrow what can be done today.”
Sammy now hurried about so many of his friends, storing his hole and covering it with snow, that by spring he had a first-rate stock of nuts and had learnt better to plan for the future.