In the novel The Hollow, Cholmondeley-Majoribanks was a squirrel with a broken paw that Edward Angkatell and Henrietta Savernake found at Ainswick when they were children. They took care of it and put it in a cage until he got better. However, it later escaped up the chimney, something which the housekeeper Mrs Bondy said the squirrel was likely to do.
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