The Story of a Graysquirrel 



Squirrel's nest. He meant to take a good 

 look in before dropping it, but the nut 

 was big and heavy, smooth and round. 

 It slipped from his beak plump into the 

 sleeping family, landing right on Banner- 

 tail's nose. Up he jumped with a snort 

 and rushed to the door. The Bluejay 

 was off at a safe distance, and chortled a 

 loud "Tooral, tooral, jay, jay!" in mis- 

 chievous mockery, then flew away. Ban- 

 nertail might have taken that nut for a 

 friendly gift, but its coming showed that 

 the den was over -visible. There was 

 something wrong with it. 



Later the very same day, the Bluejay 

 did this same thing with another big 

 chestnut. Evidently now he enjoyed the 

 commotion that followed the dropping of 

 the nut. 



One day later came a still more disturb- 

 ing event. A roving, prowling cur found 

 the fresh Squirrel track up the tree, and 



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