CHAPTER XIII 



THE HOME IN THE HIGH 

 HICKORY 



^ANNERTAIL was very well 

 satisfied with the home in 

 the red oak, and assumed 

 that thither he should bring 

 his bride. But he had not 

 reckoned with certain big facts — that is, 

 laws — for the reason that he had never 



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before met them. The female wild thing 

 claims all authority in matters of the 

 home, and in the honeymoon time no 

 wild mate would even challenge her right 

 to rule. 



So the red oak den was then and there 

 abandoned. Search in the hickory grove 

 resulted in a find. A Flicker had dug 



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