![]() ![]() With their lips wet from precipitation, the city's residents were unable to whistle, and the creature once again had some peace and quiet. Rainier, returned to Seattle, climbed atop the Space Needle, and threw them into the sky to make it rain. In an effort to silence the noise, the Wheedle gathered clouds in a large sack atop Mt. The Wheedle slept there peacefully for many years, his red nose blinking, until the region's growth brought people- and their whistling- to his doorstep once again. Bothered by the whistling of workers first settling the city of Seattle, the creature was unable to sleep and became irritable, eventually moving to Mount Rainier to escape the noise. ![]() Wheedle on the Needle (Serendipity Books, 1974), written by Stephen Cosgrove and illustrated by Robin James, was about a large, round, furry creature called the Wheedle who lived in the Northwest. ![]()
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