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Entered as Second-Class Matter June 12, 1909, at Sound Beach Post Office, under Act of March 3, 1897. 



Vol 



VIll 



APRIL, 1916 



Number 11 



How We Tamed the Flying Squirrels. 



BV K. HKRTZBKRG, STAMFORD, CONNEC- 

 TICUT. 



Three years ago a nimilier of l)iru 

 houses were set out among the trees 

 surrounding "Knokik Kamp" in High 

 Ridge. Connecticut. For many weeks 

 expectation ran high and much good- 

 natured rivalry was indulged in to get 

 the first look at the expected tenants. 

 For a long time nothing happened, but 

 one day the boy noticed a leaf sticking 

 out of the opening of the house in the 

 cedar, and he asserted that the house 

 had a tenant — that a bird was making 

 a nest in it. The idea was ridiculed 

 and he was informed that a leaf had 

 been blown into ithe opening. Bui 

 how w^e did w^atch that opening ! 



The next morning there was no mis- 

 taking it. The house was occu})ied ; 

 the opening had been almost closed by 

 a mass of leaves. What had done it? 

 We guessed from condor to least fly- 

 catcher. Nothing was seen to enter or 

 leave the house, yet the mass of leaves 

 was daily getting larger. We dared 

 not take the house down for fear of 

 frightening off our welcome guest, yet 

 the suspense must be broken. 



One evening w^hen we were indulg- 

 ing in our usual guesses one of us sav.' 

 the leaves move in the opening and a 

 gray head, with large eyes protrude 

 from the doorway. "A squirrel." "No. 



it's too small." But suddenly our vis- 

 itor darted out of the box and up the 

 cedar to the topmost branch, and with- 

 out an instant's hesitation launched 

 himself into space, to land on an oak 

 tree a hundred yards away. The secret 

 was out. Our house harbored a flying 



"SOOX TOOK Till-: .\UTS I'RO.M BETWEK.X 



OUR FINGERS." 



Fliotoyraph by .Mr. Jolm .1. Schoonhoven 



squirrel. The next morning was spent 

 in putting up ])rojecting boards from 

 the railing ancl in a trip to town for 

 hazelnuts. Fverv eveninsf a visfil was 



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