BILLY AND HANS 



tomed to be afoot, put him back in 

 his bed, and went to mine. But 

 thinking over the strange occurrence, 

 I got up, dressed myself, and went 

 down to see if anything was wrong, 

 and found the new squirrel hanging 

 under the curtain in which the two 

 had been sleeping, with his hind 

 claws entangled in the stuff, head 

 down, and evidently very ill. He 

 had probably felt death coming, and 

 tried to get down and find a hiding- 

 place, but got his claws entangled, 

 and could not extricate them. He 

 died the next day, and I took Hans 

 to sleep in his old place in the fold of 

 my bed-cover, where, with a few days' 

 interruption, he slept as long as he 

 lived. He insisted, in fact, on being 

 taken when his sleeping-time came ; 

 he would come to the edge of his 

 shelf and nod to me till I took him, 



