WINTER NEIGHBORS. 83 
woke up to what he was doing, he had completely de- 
molished the neat, round doorway of downy. He had 
made a large ragged opening large enough for himself 
to enter. I drove him away and my favorite came 
back, but only to survey the ruins of his castle for a 
moment and then go away. He lingered about for a 
day or two and then disappeared. The big hairy 
usurper passed a night in the cavity, but on being hus- 
tled out of it the next night by me, he also left, but 
not till he had demolished the entrance to a cavity in 
a neighboring tree where downy and his mate had 
reared their brood that summer, and where I had 
hoped the female would pass the winter. 
