CHAPTER X 



REDSQUIRREL, THE SCOLD OF 

 THE WOODS 



|HE Snow-moon was waning, 

 the Hunger-moon at hand, 

 when Bannertail met with 

 another adventure. He had 

 gone far off to the pine 

 woods of a deep glen, searching for cones, 

 when he was set on by a Redsquirrel. 

 Flouncing over the plumy boughs it came, 

 chattering: "Squat, squat, quit, quit, quit" 

 — "&iU git, git" — and each moment 

 seemed more inclined to make a tooth- 

 and-nail attack on Bannertail. And he, 

 what had he to fear ? Was he not bigger 

 and stronger than the Red-headed One? 

 Yes, very well able to overmatch him in 



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