CHAPTER X 



CHICKAREE THE SCOLD 



(~^\HICKAREE, the red squirrel, lives in every 

 VV patch of woods all over the United States. 

 Out in the Rocky Mountains he goes by another 

 name, and he has a little darker color, but out 

 there he has the same curiosity, the same saucy, 

 blustery way of scolding you. You can change 

 your name and change your coat, but you cannot 

 so easily change yourself. Neither can chickaree. 

 You know him if you know any of the wild 

 people of the woods. Wild people, did I say? 

 Why, chickaree is anything but wild. He will not 

 let you pull his tail ; but he will sit up on a limb 

 over your head and make faces at you, jabber at 

 you, jerk his own tail, and leaning over toward 

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