Bannertail 



Squirrel and Father Squirrel, and the 

 little ones, too, at the very time when 

 their own poor knowledge must have 

 failed. 



It was the unspoken hint from her 

 that made the little mother-soon-to-be 

 hide in the nesting-place some nuts with 

 buds of slippery-elm, twigs of spice bush, 

 and the bitter but nourishing red acorns. 

 In them was food and tonic for the 

 trying time. Water she could get near 

 by, but even that called for no journey 

 forth, it chanced that a driving rain 

 drenched the tree, and at the very door 

 she found enough to drink. 



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