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a dining room. A squirrel in a grove near my 

 cabin sat on the same limb during each meal. 

 He would take a cone, climb up to this limb, 

 about six feet above the snow, back up against 

 the tree and begin eating. One day an owl 

 flew into the woods. The squirrel dropped his 

 cone and scampered up into the treetop with- 

 out a chirp. 



Another day a coyote came walking through 

 the grove without a sound. He had not seen 

 me and I did not see him until the squirrel sud- 

 denly exploded with a sputtering rush of squirrel 

 words. He denounced the coyote, called him a 

 number of names. The coyote did not like it, 

 but what could he do? He took one look at 

 the squirrel and walked on. The squirrel, hang- 

 ing to the cone in his right hand, waved it 

 about and cussed the coyote as far as he could 

 see him. 



A number of species of chipmunks store 

 quantities of food, mostly weed seed. But no 

 one appears to know much of the winter life 

 of chipmunks. 



Chipmunks around my home remain under 

 ground more than half of the year. Two near 

 my cabin were out of their holes only four 

 months one year. They were busy these four 

 months gathering seeds and peanuts which they 

 stored underground in their tunnels. Twice by 



