CHAPTER XXI 



NURSERY DAYS OF THE YOUNG 



ONES 



f QUIRRELS do not name 

 their babies as we do; they 

 do not think of them by 

 names; and yet each one is 

 itself, has individual looks 

 or ways that stand for that one in the 

 mother's mind, so is in some sort its name. 

 Thus the biggest one had a very brown 







head and a very gray coat. He was , ;/ N Vi\ 



stronger than the others, could leap just /; ^ i 



a little farther and was not so ready to * J^£ %."\l L 



bite when playing with the rest. The *A '* \\^ 



second brother was not so big as Brown- \ 



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head, and he had an impatient way of >>^\N 



rebelling at any little thing that did not 



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