SNOW-QUAKES AND THE SNOW-QUAKER 



this one spot? I queried; and those suggestive scales 

 yonder, from perhaps a dozen cones, which strewed the 

 snow, had these, too, all chanced to fall at this partic- 

 ular place beneath the snow ? Drawing closer to the 

 scene of action, the mystery of this " wonderful saga- 

 city " was solved, the opening of the burrow being but 

 a convenient door- way to a system of snow burrows 

 extending for several feet on all sides, the crust up- 

 heaved and cracked here and there in broken mounds, 

 each of which probably marked the scene of discovery 

 and struggle with a cone. 



Whatever may be said of the comparative provident 

 sagacity of the red and the gray squirrels, it must be 

 admitted that the snow-quaker fairly earns his Christ- 

 tnas dinner. 



