BILLY AND HANS 



many attempts to draw them in their 

 sleep, but we found that even then 

 they were in perpetual motion, and 

 never in one pose long enough to get 

 even a satisfactory sketch. Their 

 restlessness in sleep was only inter- 

 rupted when in my bed-cover, and 

 not always then. 



Some instincts of the woods they 

 were long losing the use of, as the 

 habit of changing often their sleeping- 

 places. I provided them with several, 

 of which the ultimate favourite was 

 the bag of the window-curtain ; but 

 sometimes, when Billy was missing, 

 he was found in my waste-paper 

 basket, and even in the drawer of my 

 typewriter desk, asleep. In their 

 native forests these squirrels have this 

 habit of changing their nests, and the 

 mother will carry her little ones from 

 one tree to another to hide their 



