Firkin & The Grey Gangsters
Ann Scott-Moncrieff1936

Firkin and the Grey Gangsters is a collection of four tales in which animals are the heroes.
Firkin and the Grey Gangsters was in 1936 a metaphor for the fear of takeover by corporate America - Firkin is a young red squirrel who leads his people in a battle against a horde of grey squirrel invaders from America. Firkin speaks in Scots.

The Sheep who wasn't a Sheep is about the thoughts going through the head of a sheep, swimming between one Outer Isle and the other.

The White Drake is a farmyard drake in Perthshire learning about flying.

Titre original : Firkin & The Grey Gangsters (1936)