WINTER NEIGHBORS, 83 



woke up to what he was doing, he had completely de- 

 molished the neat, round doorway of downy. He had 

 made a large ragged opening large enough for himself 

 to enter. I drove him away and my favorite came 

 back, but only to survey the ruins of his castle for a 

 moment and then go away. He lingered about for a 

 day or two and then disappeared. The big hairy 

 usurper passed a night in the cavity, but on being hus- 

 tled out of it the next night by me, he also left, but 

 not till he had demolished the entrance to a cavity in 

 a neighboring tree where downy and his mate had 

 reared their brood that summer, and where I had 

 hoped the female would pass the winter. 



