in the fall sunshine; and one favorite giant 

 tree with the deepest and warmest hollow, 

 jfljutie Brofner wn ich he invariably uses for his long winter 

 s i eept And besides all these he has at least 

 one tower of refuge near every path of his, to 

 which he can betake himself when sudden 

 danger threatens from dogs or men. 



Though he walks and hunts and fights 

 and feeds like a bear, Mooweesuk has many 

 habits of his own that Mooween has never 

 approached. One of these is his habit of 

 nest robbing. Mooween does that, to be sure, 

 for he is fond of eggs ; but he must confine 

 himself largely to ground-birds and to nests 

 that he can reach by standing on his hind 

 legs. Therefore are the woodpeckers all safe 

 from him. Mooweesuk, on his part, can never 

 see a hole in a tree without putting his nose 

 into it to find out whether it contains any 

 eggs or young woodpeckers. If it does con- 

 tain them, he will reach a paw down, clinging 

 close to the tree and stretching and pushing 

 his arm into the hole clear to his shoulder, to 

 see if perchance the nest be not a foolishly 

 shallow one and the eggs lie within reach of 



