LOVERS OF NUTS 



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Besides hazel-nuts, he has the choice of a great variety 

 of food, especially in summer and autumn. In autumn 

 and early winter he spends long hours of a day scamper- 

 ing about, in his frolicsome way, under beech trees, 

 eating and hiding beech-mast. Then he is a devoted 

 lover of acorns, and the seeds of spruce. All kinds of 

 other seeds attract him : he delights in the fruits of 



Squirrel: "This nut is all for me." 



hornbeam, maple, and mountain ash ; from gardens he 

 takes walnuts and perhaps apples or strawberries; 

 he gnaws the bark of trees when hard pressed, and 

 eats succulent buds and shoots of such trees as spruce, 

 Scotch pine, or chestnut. And sometimes he takes 

 birds' eggs, and often beetles and the grubs of saw-flies 

 and such insects. 

 It is one of the prettiest sights of the woods to 



