Dickie Deer Mouse in "The Wrong Turn"

Now, Dickie Deer Mouse had paused as soon as he had reached the rail fence at the edge of the woods. And unseen by his cousins he peeped back to find out what they might do.
When the three families scattered in three different directions Dickie Deer Mouse believed that he was well rid of them.
But by that time it had grown so light that he did not want to show himself in the pasture, not even long enough to scamper the short distance from the fence back to the front door of his new house.
So he passed another day in the last year's bird's nest.