WILD LIFE OF ORCHARD AND FIELD 



friends with young animals as easily as not if 

 he behaves gently. I once picked up and brought 

 to camp an elk calf so large I could hardly lift 

 it without its showing the slightest resistance or 

 apprehension, and patient and sympathetic per- 

 sons easily make friends with some of the liveliest 

 denizens of the forest. One of the accompanying 

 illustrations shows the friendly relations estab- 

 lished between some sojourners in the White Moun- 

 tains and a family of chipmunks, which came fa- 

 miliarly to these persons for food, and were photo- 

 graphed in a dozen pretty " poses/' Many sim- 

 ilar friendships of the summer woods might be 

 cited. 



A lady who lives near Boston wrote me not long 

 ago of a female gray squirrel whose confidence 

 she had won in this way. " It was not only for 

 the nuts I gave her," says my correspondent, with 

 proper pride, "for she would stop eating a nut to 

 come down the tree - trunk, spring on to my arm 

 or shoulder, and let me carry her along the street 

 for a quarter of a mile." This squirrel would sit 

 beside the lady on the piazza-steps, curl up in her 

 hands or lap or the bend of her arm, and stay quiet 

 until put on the ground and told to go home. She 

 would come in at the window, cross the room and 



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