CHIPMUNKS, BLUEBIRDS, ROBINS 227 



Chickarees and gray squirrels have been 

 common enough throughout the cold wea- 

 ther, but the chipmunk, or striped squirrel, 

 takes to its burrow in the late autumn, and 

 sleeps away the winter. In other words, 

 along with the woodchuck (the largest and 

 the smallest of our New England squirrels 

 being alike in this respect), it migrates 

 into the "land of Nod." I imagine, how- 

 ever, that its sleep is not so sound but that 

 it wakes up now and then to feed, though 

 as to this point I know really nothing, my 

 impression arising wholly from the fact that 

 chipmunks store away food. They would 

 hardly do this, I should think, unless they 

 expected to find a use for it. 



Late in September, five months ago, I 

 went to visit friends in the White Moun- 

 tains, and one of the first things I heard 

 from them was that Betty had disappeared. 

 She had not been seen for about two months. 

 Betty was a chipmunk that had been in the 

 habit of coming upon the piazza, and had 

 grown tame under kind treatment till she 

 would take food from her friends' fingers 

 and even climb into their laps. Once, in- 



