FLYING SQUIRRELS AND SPADE- 

 FOOT FROGS 



IT is pleasant to realize familiar truths anew ; 

 to have it brought freshly to mind, for ex- 

 ample, how many forms of animal life there 

 are about us of which we seldom get so much 

 as a glimpse. 



In all my tramping over eastern Massa- 

 chusetts I have met with two foxes. One I 

 saw for perhaps the tenth part of a second, 

 the other for perhaps two or three seconds. 

 And probably my experience has not been 

 exceptional. In this one particular it would 

 be safe to wager that not one in ten of those 

 who read this article will be able to boast of 

 any great advantage over the man who wrote 

 it. Yet every raiser of poultry hereabout 

 will certify that foxes are by no means un- 

 common, and I know a man living within 

 fifteen miles of the State House who, last 

 winter, by a kind of " still hunt" without 



