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HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION 



CRAY SQUIRREL. 



quadrupeds; and we are thankful that none of 

 them yield "fur!" Thus far the rapacious maw 

 of the "fur trade" has not demanded the skins 

 of the Woodchuck, Gray Squirrel, Chip- 

 munk, Flying Squirrel or Red Squirrel, 

 But whenever any of those species are definitely 

 placed in the class of fur-bearing animals, their 

 doom is sealed. At present, — when not easily 

 found and killed, — they are permitted to live 

 and make glad the waste places. 



Even the finest forest is half dead if it be 

 destitute of the vital spark that wild-animal 

 life alone can give. 



In cheerful companionsliip and popular in- 

 terest, the Gray Squirrel would be worth half 

 A million dollars a year to the people of New 

 York — ;/ they would but let it alone! But 



where is the Gray Squirrel today? You may 

 ride or drive in midsummer from one end of 

 New York to the other without finding a single 

 one alive, unless it is in a protected park ! 



Americans are queer animals. There are 

 men and boys who still think it is "sport," 

 and "hunting," to shoot squirrels, — under far 

 less difficulty and danger than would lie in pot- 

 ting chickens in a farmer's orchard ! And we 

 Americans actually eat a rodent with flesh so 

 rat-like that the white men of all other nations 



EASTERN RED SQUIRREL. 



EASTERN CHIPMUNK. 



