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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 



young ones in her mouth, and carried it quickly to 

 a hole in another tree, three or four hundred yards 

 off, and then came back and took the others, one 

 by one, till she had conveyed them all_ to their 

 new home. The intelligent instinct manifested by 

 this little quadruped excited great interest in 

 Isaac's observing mind. When he drove the 

 cows to pasture, he always went by that tree to 

 see how the young family were getting along. In 

 a short time they were running all over the tree 

 with their careful mother, eating acorns under the 

 ■shady boughs, entirely unconscious of the perils 

 through which they had passed in infancy. 



Some time after, Isaac traded with another boy 

 for a squirrel taken from the nest before its eyes 

 were open. He made a bed ofmossforit, and 

 fed it -very tenderly. At first, he was afraid it 

 would not live ; but it seemed healthy, though it 

 never grew so large as other squirrels. He did 

 not put it in a cage ; for he said to himself that a 

 creature made to frisk about in the green woods 

 could not be happy shut up in a box. This pretty 

 little animal became so much attached to her kind- 

 hearted protector, that she would run about after 

 him, and come like a kitten whenever he called 

 her. While "he was gone to school she frequently 

 ran off to the woods and played with wild squirrels 

 on a tree that grew near his path homeward. 

 Sometimes she took a nap in a large knot-hole, or, 

 if the weather was very warm, made a cool bed 

 of leaves across the crotch of the boughs, and 

 slept there. When Isaac passed under the tree, 

 on his way from school, he used to call "Bun ! 

 Bun I Bun!" If she was there she would come 

 to him immediately, run up on his shoulder, and 

 so ride home to get her supper. 



It seemed as if the animals were in some way 

 aware of his kindly feelings, and disposed to re- 

 turn his confidence ; for on several occasions they 

 formed singular intimacies with him. When he 

 was six or seven years old, he spied a crow's nest 

 in a high tree, and, according to his usual cus- 

 tom, he climbed up to make discoveries. He 

 found that it contained two eggs, and he watched 

 the crow's movements until her young ones were 

 hatched and ready to fly. Then he took them 

 home. One was accidentally killed a few days 

 after, but he reared the other, and named it 

 Cupid. The bird became so very tame, that it 

 would feed from his hand, perch on his shoulder, 

 or his hat, and go everywhere with him. It fre- 

 quently followed him for miles, when he went to 

 mill or market. He was never put into a cage, 

 but flew in and out of the house, just as he 

 pleased. If Isaac called "Cu! Cu!'[ he would 

 hear him, even if he were up in the highest tree 

 would croak a friendly answer, and come down 

 directly. If Isaac winked one eye, the crow 

 would do the same. If he winked his other eye 

 the crow also winked with his other eye. Once 

 when Cupid was on his shoulder, he pointed to 

 a snake lying in the road, and said "Cu ! Cu !" — 

 The sagacious bird pounced upon the head of the 

 snake and killed him instantly ; then flew back to 

 his friend's shoulder, cawing with all his might, 

 as if delighted with his exploit. If a stranger 

 tried to take hiui, he would fly away, screaming 

 with terror. Sometimes Isaac covered him with 

 a handkerchief, and placed him on a stranger's 

 shoulder ; but as soon as he discovered where he 

 was, he seemed frightened almost to death. He 



usually chose to sleep on the roof of a shed, di- 

 rectly under Isaac's bed room window. One 

 night he heard him cawing very loud, and the 

 next morning he said to his father, "I heard Cu- 

 pid talking in his sleep last night. His father in- 

 (juired whether he had seen him since ; and when 

 Isaac answered, "No," he said, "Then I am 

 afraid the owls have taken him." The poor bird 

 did not make his appearance again ; and a few 

 days after, his bones and feathers were found 

 on a stump not far from the house. This was 

 a great sorrow for Isaac. It tried his young 

 heart almost like the loss of a brother. — Life of 

 Isaac T. Hopper, by Mrs. L. Maria Child. 



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