IV. 



BISMARCK, THE RED SQUIRREL 



THE red squirrel, or chickaree, leads all the 

 wild things in the woodlands of Cape Ann for 

 intelligence and the ability to maintain an 

 existence under adverse circumstances. 



His life during the spring and summer 

 months is a grand hurrah, but in the fall he 

 sobers down and plods and toils in his har- 

 vest-fields like a thrifty farmer. 



Right or wrong, it is a fact that the red 

 squirrel bears a disreputable character. He 

 is called a thief because he takes the farmers' 

 corn, and a bloodthirsty wretch for robbing 

 birds' nests. From my experience with the 

 chickaree I am led to believe that he is not 

 so black as painted. I used to think that 

 he spared neither eggs nor young, but sav- 

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