A HERMIT'S WILD FRIENDS 



a keen memory and an intelligence that is 

 phenomenal. For four winters she has made 

 it a practice to rap on the window when she 

 is hungry, or desires to come in the cabin. 

 Her method, followed each day, is peculiar. 

 She raps if I am inside, and not otherwise. 

 If I am sitting outside, she never approaches 

 the window. It is evident that she raps to 

 attract my attention. After rapping, she 

 goes to the door and waits for me. If I do 

 not respond, she returns to the window and 

 raps again, louder than before. She waits 

 at the door a short time, and if I do not come, 

 she returns to the window and stays right 

 there, and raps vigorously all the time. Not 

 only is it peculiar that she is intelligent enough 

 to know that she can attract my attention, 

 but it is also peculiar that she can remember 

 from one winter to another how to go through 

 the intelligent act. 



One of my bird-loving friends, the late 

 " Frank Bolles," for many years the secre- 

 tary of Harvard College, was telling me of 

 the intelligence of the chickadees around 

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