TENANTS OF WINTER BIRDS' NESTS 



HEN we realise how our lives 

 are hedged about by butch- 

 ers, bakers, and luxury-makers, we 

 often envy the wild creatures their 

 independence. And yet, although 

 each animal is capable of finding its own 

 food and shelter and of avoiding all 

 ordinary danger, there is much depend- 

 ence, one upon another, among the lit- 

 tle creatures of fur and feathers. 



The first instinct of a gray squirrel, 

 at the approach of winter, is to seek out a 

 deep, warm, hollow limb, or trunk. Nowa- 

 days, however, these are not to be found in every grove. 

 The precepts of modern forestry decree that all such un- 

 sightly places must be filled with cement and creosote and 

 well sealed against the entrance of rain and snow. When 



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