17^ The Ottawa Nati'kalist. ] December 



He dropped down and walked struii^ht to the spot where he 

 had buried his nut Me snitTed, he snutTed, he scratched, he 

 clawed, he burrowed. The nut was y^one ! He I'anie back to nie, 

 raised himselt" once ai^ain by niv Rngfers and, to cover all possi- 

 bility of mi>take, took one lon^;-, hist sn\ell. 



'* How did you liiirc to touch that nut ?" he asked : "It was 

 not your nut." 



With that he left nie and -the nut ; and 1 heard liini sav. as 

 he crept thouj^-htfully down the tree : 



"Schopenhauer was rii^ht, after all, when he said that 

 ' Women do not understand the first principles of honor and 



justice. Nothing- should be left to their control : neither 



children, nor houses, nor lands, nor money,' nor, above all thing's 



—Xuts r 



Cambridge, Mass., U.S., Nov. i. 1004. 



Addendum. 



One of the charming features of Cambridge, Mass., where the 

 writer of the above interesting note lives, is the number and tame- 

 ness of the beautiful Grav Squirrels, which being protected and 

 fed by kind lovers of natiu-e, run everywhere through the large 

 g-ardens and lawns, and may frequently be seen and approached, 

 within a few feet, even on ihe roads and sidewalks. This shows 

 how quickly wild animals will make friends and live with men, as 

 soon as the latter will restrain their s ivage instincts of wanting to 

 kill everything smaller than themselves or that they are not afraid 

 of, or when they are compellevl by law to act as if they were 

 civilized Christian beuigs. The time is now coming near when we 

 mav hope to see our streets brig-htened with flocks of beautiful Pine 

 Grosbeaks. It would be well for all members of our Club to 

 make a point, whenever opportunity occurs, of trying to put a stop 

 to the senseless de^^truction of these by thoughtless boys, who. 

 owing to the confiding nature of these gentle birds, can catch 

 them without trouble when feeding on the scanty food provided 

 by the mountain ashes along our streets. 



