CHAPTER V. 



A TRIBE OF GNAWERS AND THEIR FOOD 



GNAWERS GOOD FOR FOOD BEAVER TAILS RAT STEW 



DORMICE HASH POPPY SEED AND HONEY BOILED POR- 

 CUPINE THE INDIAN METHOD OF COOKING PORCUPINE 

 THE RULE OF THE WILDERNESS THE SIN OF THE SIN-YALE- 

 A-MIN PORCUPINE QUILL THE TAIL IS MOST SAVORY 

 CUDJO THE GRAY SQUIRREL ROBIN THE RED SQUIRREL 

 A DRUNKEN RED SQUIRREL AND HOW IT ACTED THE RED 



SQUIRREL TAMED BLOODY MINDED CHIPMUNKS LIVE 



MICE SNAKES AND YOUNG BIRDS AS CHIPMUNK FOOD 

 THE CHIPMUNK AT WHIPPORWILL COTTAGE THE WHITE 

 FOOTED MOUSE AND THE SNAKE. 



All evidence seems to point to the fact that the 

 whole tribe of gnawers can change from their ac- 

 customed diet to a new one 

 without suffering any great 

 inconvenience, or injury to 

 their health. This may not 

 be true of the beaver, I have 

 never experimented with 

 this big flat-tail rat and have 

 no data upon which to base 

 a positive opinion. But 

 there have been so many 

 exaggerated stories in which 



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