THE SCAVENGERS 



camper's feet. The Camp Robber's gray 

 coat, black and white barred wings, and 

 slender bill, with certain tricks of perching, 

 accuse him of attempts to pass himself off 

 among woodpeckers ; but his behavior is 

 all crow. He frequents the higher pine 

 belts, and has a noisy strident call like a 

 jay's, and how clean he and the frisk-tailed 

 chipmunks keep the camp! No crumb or 

 paring or bit of eggshell goes amiss. 



High as the camp may be, so it is not 

 above timber-line, it is not too high for 

 the coyote, the bobcat, or the wolf. It is 

 the complaint of the ordinary camper that 

 the woods are too still, depleted of wild 

 life. But what dead body of wild thing, or 

 neglected game untouched by its kind, do 

 you find ? And put out offal away from 

 camp over night, and look next day at the 

 foot tracks where it lay. 

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