Nature's Little Store-keeper. 



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laboring most truly under an embarrassment of riches, the 

 little fellow presents a most ludicrous appearance. 



HACKEE, OR CHIPPING SQUIRREL. 

 Laying up Food for the Famine of Winter. 



When menaced by foes, by which so defenceless and con- 

 spicuous an animal is sure to be surrounded in great numbers, 

 the Hackee makes at once for his burrow, and is there secure 

 from the attacks of nearly all enemies. One foe there is, 

 however, that cares naught for the burrow, but follows the 

 poor Hackee through all of its windings, and never fails to 

 attain his sanguinary object. This remorseless foe is the 

 stoat, or ermine, whose only penchant is the blood, and not 

 the flesh, of his victim. 



Early in November the Hackee moves into his winter- 

 quarters, excepting in occasional instances when the sun 



