54 NATURE STUDY LESSONS FOR PKIMAKV (.KADES 



nails. We could hardly get them off our cloth- 



iii;'. when they liad been ninniiij', over us. 



One day after the above record all three little 

 squirrels lay down on the bottom of the cage to- 

 gether to sleep. 



When eight weeks old their tails were beautiful 

 and they curled them gracefully over their backs. 



They had by this time beeome wry nimble. They 



would take away Fanny's nuts when she was nib- 

 bling them. Fanny stored away in the box large 

 quantities of nuts, never putting two in the same 

 spot. She covered them by scratching anything 

 over them that happened to be handy, even though 

 it were one of the little squirrels. 



Two days later one squirrel would lie on its 

 back, kick up its legs, and grab another squirrel, 

 when a skirmish would follow. They continued 

 to steal the nuts from Fanny's mouth. They were 

 now beginning to eat nuts, kernels of corn, and 

 clover. One lay down and gnawed a kernel of 

 corn as a dog gnaws a bone. 



When nine and a half weeks old the little ones 

 teased Fanny when eating so much that she hung 

 by her toes from the side of the cage near the 

 top, to crack nuts. The tails of the babies were 



