The Tragedy of the Flying Squirrels 



passages attended by the greatest 

 apparent risk, with fine contempt for 

 the distance to be traversed. Sure- 

 footed and swift as an arrow from the 

 cord, they shot back and forth from 

 one leafy canopy to another. And so 

 the golden summer passed. 



I think they came to know me at 

 last quite as intimately as I knew them. 

 To my way of thinking all created 

 things are more or less akin anyhow. 

 The lives of all certainly present too 

 many parallels to admit of any other 

 hypothesis as to the universal fellow- 

 ship. To be sure we count ourselves 

 the ruling race. If might makes divine 

 right then we surely read clear our 

 title to domination, but in our appe- 

 tites and habits, our ambitions and 

 anxieties, I have seen as yet little 

 difference in any fundamental as be- 

 tween the different forms of animate 

 existence. Man hungers and feeds 

 himself like any beast of the field. He 

 has thirst which he quenches as does 

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