DEIDAMIA INSCRIPTA 



GENUS, DEIDA'MIA. 



SPECIES, iNSCRiP'TA ("marked"). 



One of Us sat on some steps one day watching a 

 gi*ay squirrel descending the Japanese woodbine on 

 the side of the house. He had reached an ornamental 

 ledge on which English sparrows had built a ragged 

 nest of straws and feathers, and he had given a vigor- 

 ous kick with one hind leg and another with the other 

 hind leg, scattering all the straws and feathers to the 

 winds, and was quietly continuing his descent as if 

 nothing had interrupted it and his only object was the 

 nut in the hand of One of Us, when a slight movement 

 of a leaf caught the attention of both. One of Us saw 

 a smooth green head at the edge of the leaf moving in 

 a way which suggested a caterpillar eating. What the 

 squirrel saw she does not know, but he hastened his 

 steps. Luckily One of Us was nearer the leaf than he 

 was, and had leaf and caterpillar in her hands before 

 Bunny arrived. Bunny's mother had caught an ahhotii 

 caterpillar just as One of Us was about to take it, and 

 had deliberately sat up and eaten the squirming thing 

 as a boy sometimes eats a pickled cucumber bought at 

 the corner grocery at recess ; so One of Us had learned 

 from practical experience that squirrels were cater- 



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